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YouTube Red?
by emh68 9y ago
YouTube Red?
- mort96 9y agoHahaha you must be from one of the 2 countries with YouTube red. (I know it's probably not literally 2 countries, but it's available in very few countries.)
- LeoPanthera 9y agoUnited States, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, South Korea. (If anyone actually wants to know.)
- emh68 9y agoWow, that's it? Googling around a bit, it seems that Google's attempt to include everything under the sun into your YouTube Red subscription is to blame... They could just give you ad-free youtube. But instead, they want YTR to include their YTR-only premium content, and also they want to throw in Google Music... all of that requires decyphering copyright laws and potentially registering as a royalties collector (IANAL). Typical Google behavior, an inflexible all-or-nothing approach.
- rhizome 9y agoDoes YTR allow me to turn off annotations permanently?
- noir_lord 9y agoI loathe those as well.
- fossuser 9y agoI think you can actually do this without having a YouTube Red account - it's under youtube settings and then under playback (there's a checkbox for annotations). I'm using the Red free trial (it's 3 months) and it's actually pretty nice to have more control over the experience and not have to deal with ads. I found the ublock origin wasn't perfectly effective on YouTube anyway. If only FB offered a $10 a month no ad subscription it'd be a lot nicer to use too.
- rhizome 9y agoYes, there's a UI control for it, but Google regularly resets it. It's basically as effective as setting your Facebook timeline to "Recent first."
- craftyguy 9y agoHa. No. I'd rather not encourage Google/Youtube.