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[–] 38 points 1 year ago (34 children)

I pay for it. No ads. Background playing on mobile, and YouTube music included.

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Background playing on mobile

    The fact that they put this behind a paywall is enough for me to never pay them a dime.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    I found a neat little workaround that I used for a while. I’d load the video up in my browser, turn the phone on an off a couple times, press play on the lock screen, and enjoy it that way.

    Edit:

    Still works. Just gotta full screen the video and then power off before it kills picture in picture.

    And now I’m listening in the background as I type this.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    Most certainly off-topic, but I have found other cool workarounds for apps.

    For instance, if you open 2 windows of, say, PowerPoint (1 you want to use, the other you must close after; read below). Then, go to the one you don't want to use (or at least one you use for this method), and wait for the no account/Office not bought/whatever pop up; in any case, do NOT close the pop up. Open the other PowerPoint, and then close the former. If done right, you'll be pleasantly surprised that it works perfectly! After that, you can open any additional ppt files. Do note that, after you close PowerPoint entirely, you gotta do this all over again.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    I do too but the value is waning. When I try to watch without having logged in and see all the ads, that add some value back

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    In what scenario are you watching it without being logged in?

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Not the person you asked, but I do that sometimes. For instance, when I want to watch a specific video but I don't want having watched it to affect other video recommendations.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't know if this actually does what I hope it does, but if I happen to watch a video that I don't want recommendations on in the future, I manually delete the video from my watch history.

    I don't know if that really helps, but at least as a placebo it feels good to do.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    If unsure of a video, 1. on desktop open in new tab - if ya don't want that content/creator click the 3 dots on the main page video and select don't suggest channel, on phone (just did this a few mins ago) back out of video and since on mobile the home feed doesn't reset hit the 3 dots etc

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    How does one pirate free videos? Is there somebody uploading torrents of YouTube videos?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    How have you never heard of yt-dlp?

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yt-dlp doesn’t pirate YouTube videos… it downloads them directly from YouTube.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    it downloads them directly from YouTube

    Thus, pirating them. More or less by the same method that is used to download every single WEB-DL movie/episode you see on torrent sites.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

    It’s not pirating if you’re obtaining a video that they’re making available to you for free lmao.

    Otherwise it would be “pirating” to just load up YouTube.com in your browser and watching any old video.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    So you're using SponsorBlock as well, or you're watching videos without sponsors.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago

    In-video sponsors are not even remotely the same thing as the ads YouTube puts on videos, but that being said no I’m not using SponsorBlock. YouTube premium has a button to skip in-video sponsors so I don’t need sponsor block.

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