• BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    You can at least pay (quite a lot less than a cable subscription) to remove them. It beats paying $80 a month for the great privilege of spending 30% of the time watching ads.

    For now, of course.

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          7 months ago

          I think the day an adblocker starts charging people is the day that companies will try to sue them into non-existence with lawsuits they know will fail.

          Either that or nobody will pay for it because they’re used to getting adblockers for free. They’ll just move to another one or maybe one that’s FOSS.

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      7 months ago

      Soon you’ll pay AND watch ads. Maybe there will be a free tier with 5 minute ad breaks, and paid tier with 1 minute ad breaks.

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        7 months ago

        I pay for premium and still have to watch all the sponsored crap within the video itself. I block all those channels manually so it’s slowly getting better.

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        7 months ago

        Less? I’d argue YouTube gets you way more than cable

        There’s a buttload of high quality content

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      7 months ago

      Tbh paying a package deal isn’t actually the worst thing. I get netflix, sky sports, BT sports, movies, all channels, 1gb broadband and 1 unlimited data SIM. £100 pm.

      Yes it’s expensive but it’s £55 for 1gb broadband anyway. They have a stranglehold over football/soccer that it’s hard to get away from. Yes you can pirate the stream but it’s not the same.

      This has fuck all to do with YT but generally getting packages individually isn’t cheaper sometimes.

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            7 months ago

            Go to alibaba and look up iptv subscription. Usually has loads of flags in the pictures. Ask for a free test for 24 hrs, if the stream works ok then buy it. I had all the sports, price went up and I was still finding games I didn’t have so fuck it now I have them all.

            You’ll need an IPTV launcher on your device, I use tivimax on my appletv.