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Cheaper 'YouTube Premium Lite' Ad-Free Tier Reportedly Coming Soon
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I would assume that the Lite subscription just won’t let you use the YouTube Music app, which has a music-oriented interface and additional features over regular YouTube. I wouldn’t want to use YouTube for music listening without it.
If it were Amazon, they could call it Amazon Subprime.
This is the plan I need. I don't use anything but the ad-free part of premium.
That's nice but doesn't help when watching on my AppleTV. As you pointed out, it's for computer use. A lot of people watch YouTube on their TV.
make better quality videos then.
I watch a lot of DIY videos from all types of repairs or projects, there's plenty of videos out there than offer no insight, help or guide to anything and are pointless to what their description of the video is.
From yesterday.
www.theverge.com
Comments said it was used in AUS already
Google may be close to launching YouTube Premium Lite
The cheaper tier would have limited ads.
www.theverge.com
The decision was by YouTube regarding the engagement on their platform as a whole, and YouTube doesn’t make the videos.
This is clearly aimed at people like me who would subscribe but already subscribe to Apple Music or Spotify and don’t want to pay for two music services due to the forced bundling of YouTube Music.
If I can finally just pay for an ad-free experience, no forced music bundle, and stop having to deal with YouTube ad blockers always breaking, they will have me as a customer.
If I can finally just pay for an ad-free experience, no forced music bundle, and stop having to deal with YouTube ad blockers always breaking, they will have me as a customer.
YouTube needs picture-in-picture like other streaming apps. What's the point of background audio when you can't see the video?
A brief review of EweTube's history.
They began as a hosting service, and would post almost anyone's uploaded content. In return, they could track who enjoyed watching what, and could then sell that data to prospective advertisers. I understood that business model going in, and it was worth me giving up a bit of my "privacy" to watch content that interested me. There were no ads, but Zuck and his partners became wealthy with that business model. Fabulously wealthy!
That should've been enough, but no, it wasn't; they needed even more money! Hence the ads. That's why I started actively trying to find a way to block them; currently using a combo of Vinegar, Wipr, and a separate viewer called "Swizztube".
zuck's efforts to quash Swizztube are evident; some of them play a third of the way thru, then reset to the beginning (I can usually scroll a bit and pick up again where it cut me off), and a lot of vids are converted to a different language (haven't found a way to reset that).
@stocklen is correct; the ads have gone completely overboard (the worst was TWO, non-skippable ads to watch a 50-second Lincoln Project ad). I don't mind a single, skippable ad at the beginning, and if it's something I may be interested in I'll even watch the whole ad (HINT!) but if I'm fed non-skippable ads, or an ad 60 seconds in as mentioned above, I just quit ewetube altogether; let their algorithms record that.
In fact, if everyone did that, consistently, zuck would remove those ads within three days. But it's hard to inspire/control mass-action like that.
Nope, which is why I’d be interested in this plan. Have no interest in YouTube tv or music, I just want ad free.
I have a pihole on my network which blocks everything but YouTube, all my YouTube watching is via Apple TV
Possibly Apple got everything going on tvOS app agreements is preventing ad moderation, now that so many host utilize them. No browser or extensions. Safari shows Apples thinking.
I totally agree and this is the issue I face on my AppleTv as well. But being a cheap fix I deal with it.
I pay monthly for YouTube premium just because I want to get rid of ads, and I still have to watch sponsored segments in almost every video.
Sponsorblock extension had help massively with this issue, but there isn;t much we can do on Apple TV though.
Sponsorblock extension had help massively with this issue, but there isn;t much we can do on Apple TV though.
Just fix the naming
YouTube Premium Lite becomes
- YouTube Pro
YouTube Premium becomes
- YouTube Max
YouTube TV becomes
- YouTube Ultra
Could you explain how this works? I have the newest AppleTV 4K, and an "Apple One" subscription, but I can't find a way to see any EweTube from within Apple TV....?
