I know about Yattee, is there better alternatives? Thanks!

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      I just tried Vinegar, but it doesn’t work for me. I still see ads on every video. Any idea why? Not trying to blame you or anything, just wondering.

      Yes, I have it enabled.

      Edit: I guess I have to refresh each time maybe? Not sure. It seems to work after a page refresh.

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    Been paying for YouTube premium for about 8 months now and I think it’s worth every dollar.

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      Yeah, I’ve paid for it for years. I’m OK with helping the creators that way and never having to jump through all the ad block hoops.

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        Yeah I’m a pretty big fan of ‘streamlined stuff that just works as intended’. That’s why I own Apple products to begin with and I basically apply that ethos to everything else in life. So I pay for YouTube , get a better experience and I don’t have to mess with anything.

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            I tried the method one time, but my credit card details forced me back to my original country.how have you payed, prepaid tokens? And do you need a specific Google account for that region?

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              I used my regular credit card just fine. I had issues using my card from India and Brazil. But Turkey was okay. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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                How odd. Do you mean ‘for’ the Turkey YT store or do you have a Turkish credit card?

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                  I just VPN’d and changed my profile address to some random Turkish one and paid with my Canadian credit card on the Turkish YouTube.

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        what’s the cheapest country to use?

        I rarely use youtube on my phone but if the price is right I might snag premium just to have it for when I do want to watch while mobile

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          I used to use India but they tightened the grip there. I think the last time I renewed I did it from Turkey?

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      Yup, since I watch YouTube almost daily, it’s kind of a nobrainer. I’m happy they offer a version without ads.

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    I use the Safari extension Vinegar, which is paid but universal from macOS to iOS. It replaces the YouTube player by the default HTML5 one, preventing Google from getting events that trigger ads.

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    I’m using uYouPlus via sidestore/wireguard configuration. It was a bit painful to setup and I still need to spend 5sec per week to 'Refresh" it but I think it’s definitely worth it in order to have an exact clone of Youtube without ads + background play :) that’s at least for me as I don’t want to settle for any alternatives

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    I’m using safari and the vinegar extension, which is blocking ads and enables Picture in Picture.

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    I have to second vinegar. It’s absolutely perfect in all my Apple devices. It works by switching the YouTube player to a much faster HTML5 video player. So it’s much faster, you get iOS’s built scrubbing, PiP, and ad-blocking.

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      I do but honestly 18€/month (family plan, we’re 2) is a bit pricey considering that I mostly use YouTube Music, I use YouTube mainly to listen to some content before to sleep and won’t want loud ads at 3AM lol

      I’d rather pay for Apple One and get music, storage, TV and some games for the same price

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        I’ve paid for YouTube for years and the price has definitely gotten out of hand, I used a VPN to sign up for it in Turkey a few months ago and it’s like 10% of what I was previously paying, only a couple dollars a month.

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        Damn, are they high? If I had to pay 18EUR for YT I’d rather cut on my YT usage.

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    Sign up for a VPN trial and subscribe to premium from another country. You’ll pay like ~$3 a month

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    I use AltStore and side load UYou+. Takes like 30 seconds a week, never have ads, notifications, and it skips stuff like self-promotions. I enjoy it

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      Video lite App Store link

      I just tried it and it looks actually like a really good solution. But it’s just using the YouTube website with probably an ad blocker as well so I’m not sure if that’s gonna survive if Google decides to do something about it.

      It’s also a bit sad to have the app’s ads instead, but still. I think it looks promising so far.

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        Don’t use youtube that often but it’s only solution that works on ios whit out youtube premium to get rid of those annoying ads 😐

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      I use video lite and it’s awesome. $1.50 every 3 months gets you no ads too. I’m sure YT will kill these off at some point but it’s a great solution for now.

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    It’s beyond worth it to just pay them the money. I kind of hate that they won, but this way I never see an ad no matter where I watch, and the creators I enjoy still get money out of my views. I would pay for more services if they had a No Ads option. (I might have gotten convinced to get Twitter Blue if it had 0 ads instead of just halving them…)