Honestly agreed. I hate that we don't have a good open alternative to YT, but as long as you can afford it buying premium seems like a decent alternative.

[–] Catweazle@social.vivaldi.net 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

@normalmighty @RagingRobot, well, you can use front-ends like CloudTube, Invidious instances, Piped or an Desktop client like FreeTube.
You can also watch YouTube sandboxed searching the video with Andisearch and viewing it in the search results.

https://andisearch.com

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure I could but I could also just pay $8 or whatever it is and the creators that I watch get a small portion of the money. I like them tracking the videos I watch so that I can look back and find the ones I liked.

[–] alvanrahimli@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

I'd love to subscribe to premium, but in my country they have disabled it. It is basically not possible to remove ads even when I want to pay, lmao. So, duck them, give me my vanced/revanced