Youtube & Ads

Rotty · 10 May 2020 at 23:19

Captain said:
Sign up to YouTube premium using a VPN to India, works out to £1.30 a month instead of the £12 a month they charge in the UK.

do you just VPN to sign up or do you need to every time you use?

Captain · 10 May 2020 at 23:22

Rotty said:
do you just VPN to sign up or do you need to every time you use?

Just when you sign up.

login with your uk account, then connect to India then go to YouTube and click on premium, it should show the price in rupees.

Rotty · 10 May 2020 at 23:31

Cheers

Rotty · 10 May 2020 at 23:38

Rotty said:
do you just VPN to sign up or do you need to every time you use?

weird, connecting VPN as India and price is in AED, just over £5 a month

Rotty · 10 May 2020 at 23:42

tried a few servers and finally got it

Thanks

james.miller · 10 May 2020 at 23:45

Try a different VPN, tunnelbear worked for me

edit: too slow

Captain · 11 May 2020 at 00:19

Rotty said:
tried a few servers and finally got it

Thanks

Glad you got it working.

G-MAN2004 · 11 May 2020 at 00:44

cu3ed said:
Vanced is filled with nothing but 1 star reviews on the store.

That's not the right one. You can only get it from here: https://vanced.app/

UberTiger · 11 May 2020 at 01:12

I only get them on my phone and are always skippable after a few seconds, so I don’t mind.

Frequently I’ll let the whole thing run or click the ad just to support the creator if it’s someone I watch regularly.

Tempted by the India trick though.

macuser · 11 May 2020 at 03:21

Captain said:
Sign up to YouTube premium using a VPN to India, works out to £1.30 a month instead of the £12 a month they charge in the UK.

Thanks

jpaul · 11 May 2020 at 08:35

In chrome/windows courtesy of disable hmtl5 autoplay, add-on I never see any adds.
I assume that just breaks the mechanism that would usually cue them up.

Kreeeee · 11 May 2020 at 20:11

SixTwoSix · 19 May 2020 at 13:22

Thanks for the India VPN suggestion, will give that a try later with Nord, happy to pay a few quid a month to remove ads, not the ridiculous £12/month they want here though.

arknor · 19 May 2020 at 14:40

G-MAN2004 said:
Firefox - uBlock Origin
Android - YouTube Vanced

I'm still using firefox with addblockplus, never get youtube adverts, completely forget they exist until I'm at someone elses house

Burnsy2023 · 19 May 2020 at 16:08

Kreeeee said:
If YouTube charged a sensible price in the UK (such as £4 a month) then I'd get it locally.

I was thinking about this. I'd pay up to £6. That's what it's worth to me.

danlightbulb · 19 May 2020 at 16:12

jpaul said:
In chrome/windows courtesy of disable hmtl5 autoplay, add-on I never see any adds.
I assume that just breaks the mechanism that would usually cue them up.

this didn't work for me, still seeing groups of 2 adverts at the start of youtube clips.

jsmoke · 19 May 2020 at 17:28

G-MAN2004 said:
That's not the right one. You can only get it from here: https://vanced.app/

Yeh I just came across and Installed this, what a godsend!

Is it legal?

UberTiger · 19 May 2020 at 19:49

Burnsy2023 said:
I was thinking about this. I'd pay up to £6. That's what it's worth to me.

It's about what's worth it to them.

They probably make more than £12 per user on average in the UK market from serving ads.

If you buy premium, the maximum they get per month from you is £12 and that's it. Whereas if you don't by premium, that may continue to make more than that serving you ads each month.

Stu999 · 19 May 2020 at 20:48

They’ve really ramped up the ads at the moment. I’ve gotten mid-video ads multiple times today alone whereas I’d only had them a handful of times in the last 12 months or so.

jpaul · 20 May 2020 at 08:36

danlightbulb said:
this didn't work for me, still seeing groups of 2 adverts at the start of youtube clips.

ok .. maybe, blocking is in ublockO by default now, since that's all I have for chrome extensions ..

or, maybe youtube thinks users on win7, not logged into google, are not worth the effort.