I use some adlockers and on my phone I use GrayJay, an app that aggregates all your different video providers in one app.
It maks the ads go away, and it is a much better app than youtube. It gives me all my creators in one place (YT, Rumble, Patreon, Nebula etc), I can download videos to watch later, and many more features.
Best of all, none of the attention grabbing “next up” and “related videos” that make me want to click more and more video. Honestly, the only reason I ever go to YT these days is because my addicted brain craves those related videos to click on. Sad but true…
Being aimed for the more tech-interested user, it is not as point-and-click as YT, but it isn’t complicated and well worth the minimal pain of figuring it out.
You know what I think about doing sometimes is setting up a pi hole (https://pi-hole.net/) and being done with it, just blocking all ads network-wide. I do pay for YouTube currently because I use the mobile app constantly and I don’t have a solution for blocking ads on that. I use ublock origin on desktop and that blocks pretty much everything. Ads are basically banned for my house but they do slip through, and I would love to save 15 bucks a month on YouTube lol. Although when you pay for it you also get that jump ahead button where it lets you skip sponsored ads that are organic to the video. I don’t know if you get that with the free version.
Thanks everyone… just trying to understand all the possible options presented.
I did not realize YT costs is $100 a month! Yikes! Not gonna’ pay that for ad free viewing.
I still don’t how/ why I had it for the past several months. I think YT was trying to rope me in after experiencing it… but I really think that it was because I was using Win 10 OS… all of it changed when I upgraded to Win 11.
Hey Frank. I’m now looking into changing up some of my monthlies, thanks to this thread so thanks for that, but I’m not sure you need to pay 100 per month.
Youtube Premium is supposed to be $13.99 per month. This option includes YT Music Premium and ad-free access to regular YT content.
I’ve been using Amazon Music which is now costing me $13.99, and I could just get YT Premium for the same, which would drop adds while surfing YT.
I tried Amazingzon Music as part of my prime membership. To me it was acceptable but currently use Spotthefly, I piggy-back off a family plan and it is no cost to me.
I was not aware of the YT live TV thing. I guess that would make sense for all the extra cost. The $14 upgrade for no commercials is more palatable.
Guess I’m weird, no, I think that’s actually already been confirmed several times. My first “music service” was Pandrone-on, and I tried Pottify a couple of times and just didn’t gel with it, so I moved to Abbazon Muzik. It’s been good for finding all the old stuff I thought I’d forgotten about, and adding those to a collection, but they just keep upping the cost. I started when it was $10. Now it’s 14. I think I’ll demo YT Premium and see if the Music side is up to the same standard as AMM.
Good luck.
I pay for it to not watch commercials and i use youtube music too. The ability to skip in-video commercials is a really nice feature too. I spend a lot of time watching YT so the cost is an extremely good value to me; it’s barely more than a trip to Starbucks.
I wish there was an option to get rid of the ads, without subbing to YT music. I’m on Apple music, have no plans to leave it but I’d pay $5 a month or whatever to get rid of ads. Adblockers work fine on my desktop but I wouldn’t mind getting rid of them on my Apple TV and iPhone.
It’s $100 if you have like the cable TV version of YouTube that shows you all the cable channels, but if you just want ad free viewing of plain old YouTube, the cheapest is like eight bucks a month and that’s called YouTube premium light and all it does is remove the ads. For $13.99 I think you can also get YouTube music thrown in with that, but it’s an AI shit hole.
I watch Hulu. Netflix and AppleTV all the time. Excellent series and movies if you know which to choose.
I watch YouTube videos primarily for tutorial videos about professional software. I also watch photography, art, design, filmmaking, comedy, and history videos. Oh, and music videos, including but not limited to bass.
Pretty perfect. The only tie I really listen to music on YT is when I’m grabbing a link to throw in here. I love throwing on Documentaries or music theory videos while I’m working though.
my wife and the kids use all the others 
