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YouTube Premium just got more expensive again: now $16 a month, or $27 for families
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this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2026
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... people pay for youtube?
... you know you can just block the ads, right?
... and you don't need a propietary app to get youtube on a tv?
Anything people on iOS can do? Other than switch to a google phone
i had altstore with a modified youtube ios that had adblock and sponserblock. It was annoying to keep alive since altstore required a refresh every 7 days with a PC.
Currently I am using youtube on iOS safari with adblock extensions on safari and that does the trick for me.
Pro tip: if you want PiP on safari ios for youtube. You have to go fullscreen then swipe for Home Screen. That will also enable background play for safari iOS youtube. Otherwise YouTube script will pause the video.
Safari with WBlock extension, and SponsorBlock
Orion browser works too, I think it has Ublock Origin support
I've been having a few problems with playback on ReVanced recently; it tends to buffer for a minute and the quality seems to be stuck on 480p. Any workarounds mentioned didn't work for long.
Desktop with uBlock has been fine though.
Revanced is dying because OSumAtrix, the lead dev, is so toxic every other developer decided to hard fork revanced and make Morphe.
What's really sad is Osum is copying code religiously from Morphe, including typos. They also forget to change function names or comments to go from Morphe to Revanced. As a result, Morphe DMCA'd him for not complying with the attribution clause of their GPL license.
It's a whole mess but basically it's one guy trying to replace dozens of contributors by copying code. He's never going to sustain it like this, so just use Morphe honestly...
It's updated daily (sometimes multiple times a day) and it seems like they can't stop adding new QoL features to the patcher. Their patches work great, I highly recommend it.
Oh ok, thanks for that info. Already installed Morphe, let's see how it is...
You could try grayjay. Worked better for me than revanced but still had the occasional video not loading
Grayjay is great, I'm using it all the time on desktop. It couldn't replace YouTube on mobile for me though, I need MicroG integration
Is there any reason to use ReVanced when you can browse YouTube on Android's Firefox with uBlock Origin installed? It seems to work about the same but you can also run other extensions like DeArrow and Sponsor Block. It can even stream at 4k for some videos.
Revanced does have a version of sponsorblock btw.
Settings > Miscellaneous > Spoof video streams > Default client > VisionOS
Also make sure to clear app cache from time to time
Tried that, worked for a day or so and then it went back to buffering.
Brave's native adblock has always worked really well for me. No add-ons required.
Morphe
I'm still waiting for morphe to support other apps like instagram and tiktok (which I use for social obligations) before i move from revanced
I genuinely think Morphe has been the worst user experience I have ever had.
I'm probably just unlucky or didn't set something properly but I would say it's very very frequent that the playback moves to random parts of the video. Like anytime anyway, the player will suddenly rewind to 10/20/30 mn before in the playback. It has been extremely infuriating. Even up to date and everything, it still does that constantly and has been for months. To the point I select videos in Morphe and then open them in pipepipe or Newpipe to properly watch them.
Again, I'm probably doing something wrong but I truly developed a pretty deep hate for Morphe.
I will again switch back to ReVanved and see if that works better but for me Morphe is extremely unreliable.
Gonna catch a lot of "get with the times" but an ad blocker and watching YouTube in browser on my phone - I've never seen the value of needing Premium to do adblocking or a whole ass app like Vanced. Maybe sponsorblock for more but like overall, my impression has always been YouTube Premium is a joke of a service that can never offer anything more than adblocking/sponsor block already just does from a browser on my phone.
This is why they're trying to lock down everything. Nerfing ad blockers in chrome, semi-banning all unapproved apps in Android.
And don't get me started on smart TVs. They were broken right out of the gate.
I ended my Premium subscription about six months ago and instead got a VPN set to Albania. Ads? Gone. I live fucking with the google's data harvesting operations
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Youtube already makes more money than Disney, right? So of course they ramp up prices. It‘s a successful product after all and the line must go up. The more money it makes the more expensive it‘ll get.
That‘s why you should never give them anything in the first place and use an Adblocker instead.
I would also recommend Sponsorblock because most Youtube sponsorships are overpriced garbage or complete scams. It honestly seems too good to be true but it‘s open source and apparently can cover operational costs on just donations. What I really like about Sponsorblock is how you can curate your experience to a T. It lets you skip all sort of content that you may not like such as self-promotions, credits, previews/flashbacks, intros, and more. It comes really close to the internet highways concept I have long only dreamed about where you‘re served exactly what you want and you don‘t need a silly AI agent to do any of it.
DeArrow is another useful extension for Youtube, created to remove clickbait from your feed. It removes thumbnails and changes video titles based on user suggestions similar to Sponsorblock.
Youtube „Premium“ could never give you this experience for all the money in the world.
DeArrow is another useful extension for Youtube, created to remove clickbait from your feed. It removes thumbnails and changes video titles based on user suggestions similar to Sponsorblock.
I generally use YouTube without logging in on the PC and clean history every now and then. No matter which videos I watch first, the feed gets populated with such amount of garbage, that it kinda surprises me. Softcore porn, cop and gun shit, shitty political stuff, it's flabbergasting.
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