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You May Soon Need to Be a YouTube Premium Subscriber to Watch 4K Videos
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that statement is incorrect downscaling does improve quality of the picture. even if it’s compressed 4k video onto a lower resolution screen the increase of nitrate, and better aliasing than native resolution is always a pro . While true smaller screens you won’t notice much especially on a phone screen that statement of yours is still incorrect
And when they alsoput ads even if you are subscribed? Just a few…
Next step for sure. Let them some few years.
With your attitude you are approving this no sense abuse
You already pay even not subscribed. They get your data and companies pay them money.
Content creators need to voice their concerns, just the content consumers complaining won’t be enough!
Just curious, but what are you watching on YouTube to be spending hours on it every day?
Bro this recommendation changed my freakin’ life!Just leaving this here...
Vinegar - Tube Cleaner
Vinegar is a Safari extension that replaces the YouTube player with a minimal HTML video tag. It removes ads, restores picture-in-picture, and keeps videos playing in the background. Note: The "can read information from webpages" text in the permission section is just unfortunate wording...apps.apple.com
Vinegar — Safari Extension That Replaces YouTube Embeds With Simple HTML 5 Video Tags
Link to: https://andadinosaur.com/launch-vinegardaringfireball.net
This Safari extension replaces YouTube's video player with one that supports PiP and more [U] - 9to5Mac
It’s no secret that using YouTube in the browser on your iPhone or iPad is a rather unpleasant experience. And...9to5mac.com
You can also side load an API of a tweaked Youtube app on iOS. There are solutions that don't involve giving Google more money.
Thank you so much!Just leaving this here...
Vinegar - Tube Cleaner
Vinegar is a Safari extension that replaces the YouTube player with a minimal HTML video tag. It removes ads, restores picture-in-picture, and keeps videos playing in the background. Note: The "can read information from webpages" text in the permission section is just unfortunate wording...
Vinegar — Safari Extension That Replaces YouTube Embeds With Simple HTML 5 Video Tags
Link to: https://andadinosaur.com/launch-vinegar
This Safari extension replaces YouTube's video player with one that supports PiP and more [U] - 9to5Mac
It’s no secret that using YouTube in the browser on your iPhone or iPad is a rather unpleasant experience. And...
I get the feeling that google is looking hard at their business model and the days of "free with ads" are coming to a close. Every google service is going to have to not only post profits buy grow revenue quarter over quarter or be shut down. Also, the days of release it as beta along side three other similar services and see which one sticks are gone too
I know a lot of posts here recommending extensions for watching YouTube in Safari, but I found that a painful experience and went back to the app. I don't need high resolutions to watch on a portable device, and can live with the ads that pay for the service I'm getting.
Are you using safari? I notice that I don’t get ads when using macOS safari to view YouTube, but the downside is that I am capped at 1080p.
And a year from now they will introduce a tiered pricing where the $11.99 is just for 4K and if you want ad free you have to pay extra. And then six months after that they are going to raise the prices on all the plans. They might even introduce a on demand micro payment plan where you pay and extra fifty cents per 4K video you want to watch and some people will rack up charges exceeding the monthly payment plan.
Most YouTube I watch is on my phone over cellular, so I’m lucky if I’m at 720. But I don’t need to watch someone looking into a camera in 4K, I think the content will be the same.
It seems to me that you may have it backwards. Youtube should be grateful that people are watching. Without viewers, where would they be?
Bit the bullet a few months back to get ad-free viewing and the more streamlined offline viewing as well (used to go through video download websites which works but can be a bit of a pain), considering my work involves a lot of down time in places where I don’t have wifi, and I kept busting through my data plan. Although it wouldn’t directly affect me — for now at least — restricting an industry standard resolution behind a paywall is absolutely stupid.
Whenever you downscale resolution, example covert 4K to HD you are losing a lot of fine detail information against PQ by the removal of all that data just to shed pixels, this is known as a lossy encode from the source. Whenever you are watching a 4K YouTube and adjust it to be 1080P you can see the level of fine details be missing. Bitrates drop as the amount of data is reduced also.
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I‘ll wait until 8k becomes available … can‘t be that much longer. Then 4k will be standard at no extra cost.
YouTube may make watching videos in 4K quality on the platform exclusive to only YouTube Premium subscribers, according to screenshots posted by users on Twitter and Reddit.
On Reddit (1,2) and Twitter, some users have started to recently notice that on iOS, and presumably across other platforms also, YouTube is now saying that in order to watch videos in 4K, the user must be a paying YouTube Premium subscriber. Not all users are seeing the 4K quality option blocked behind YouTube's paywall, and it's unclear if YouTube plans to move forward with this.
A standard YouTube Premium plan costs $11.99 in the United States and includes ad-free videos, background playback, and the ability to download videos for offline viewing. We've reached out to YouTube for comment on 4K video quality possibly becoming a YouTube Premium feature and we'll update this article if we hear back.
Article Link: You May Soon Need to Be a YouTube Premium Subscriber to Watch 4K Videos
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I bet that dev got a nice little bump in revenue today. (I picked it up too!)It would be a pretty stupid move, considering the add revenue from non subscribers
YouTube may make watching videos in 4K quality on the platform exclusive to only YouTube Premium subscribers, according to screenshots posted by users on Twitter and Reddit.
On Reddit (1,2) and Twitter, some users have started to recently notice that on iOS, and presumably across other platforms also, YouTube is now saying that in order to watch videos in 4K, the user must be a paying YouTube Premium subscriber. Not all users are seeing the 4K quality option blocked behind YouTube's paywall, and it's unclear if YouTube plans to move forward with this.
A standard YouTube Premium plan costs $11.99 in the United States and includes ad-free videos, background playback, and the ability to download videos for offline viewing. We've reached out to YouTube for comment on 4K video quality possibly becoming a YouTube Premium feature and we'll update this article if we hear back.
Article Link: You May Soon Need to Be a YouTube Premium Subscriber to Watch 4K Videos
One of the joys of YouTube is all the 4K travel, walking, and hiking videos shot around the world. If you been stuck at home these last 2 years has likely been of great benefit for those non-subscribers. Now comes along Google and they are like a cable company and feel anything more then HD is premium subscription needed. I do wish Apple would make a similar service for competition to YouTube, especially with this rumor.
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