Jan-Lukas Else

Thoughts of an IT expert

Published on 2021-09-14 in 💬 Micro

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I regularly watch videos on YouTube via my Chromecast with Google TV. But I feel like I’m seeing more and more commercials. It’s almost like private television, where every video is interrupted every few minutes with advertising. And most of the time it’s two commercials in a row that can’t be skipped. I think I have to think about an alternative solution for YouTube…

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Jan-Lukas Else Ad-less YouTube on my Chromecast Someone gave me the tip (thank you!) to use VLC to play YouTube videos with my Chromecast. Although it is possible to stream YouTube videos directly in the VLC Android app itself, it somehow doesn’t work in combination with the output to the Chromecast. An alternative is of course to first use NewPipe to download a video and then play it on the Chromecast using VLC.However, I have now found another possibility. In Windows, you can also use Microsoft Edge to stream YouTube videos to the Chrome…
- Jay Tuckey Have you considered paying for YouTube Premium? It gets rid of all the ads, and also gives significantly more money to the creators of the videos - they say generally 2 - 10X the revenue per view.
- janwillem I agree with Jay: paying for YouTube Premium is great. I have the new Premium Lite option, I'm not sure it's available everywhere yet, but I pay 7 euros per month. For me the big advantage is that I get no ads on all my devices. I'm sure I can do that with some very technical option, but this is just super easy. And 7 euros for the amount of YouTube I watch is a great value.
- jc I don't have a TV at home; when I cast elsewhere a while ago, besides ads, I found myself missing browser extensions as well. Mainly Video Speed Controller and SponsorBlock. Changing videos was also annoying. Playlists, queues don't work without an account. The move Ctrl-w k f (close tab, play on next tab, fullscreen) changed to Close tab, stop casting (else it'd sometimes freeze), start video, start casting, skip to beginning of video (20-30s). I ended up casting a Firefox window via Chromiu…
Vít Skalický :manjaro: @enThey probably want more people to buy Youtube premium. I would buy it if it was cheaper.