My credit card has expired and thus my youtube premium with it.
I received some alerts from YT before it happened and now the subscription has been terminated and the first video I watched without the premium had 3 ads in 5 minutes.
3 ads. In 5 minutes.
I’m disgusted. My hatred towards the greedy corporations has been gradually exceeding the boiling point for the past couple of years and now I experienced how YouTube tries to force it’s users to pay the tribute.
I’m using YT a lot so I’d take no issue paying if it just improved the experience, but not if it’s the only way to use the “free” app. I’m not gonna get my money extorted by a fucking corporation.
Fuck them, intalling ReVanced now.
I uninstalled the app and just watch videos on the Firefox mobile browser now. Not only does uBlock Origin block all the ads, but the interface is less buggy, and it can play audio through the lock-screen (a basic feature that Google inexplicably locks behind a paywall). There are a few drawbacks, like playlists not auto-playing, but generally it’s a much better experience than the official app or chrome.
It’s probably a setting on your end. It does do that on my end with the same combo.
It might just be when the playlist is collapsed or the lock-screen is on. I did just test it with the tab open and the playlist expanded and it seemed to work fine. Either way, I rarely use playlists, so it doesn’t come up much.