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Ask HN: How to get YouTube to stop offering me a free trial of YouTube Premium?
YouTube pops up an offer nearly every other day, even though I tap "No Thanks" (or "Skip Free Trial", or other permutations of "@#%!$, I Said No") every darn time. You'd think the big G would be doing something intelligent here like an exponential backoff.
I'm starting to think that the hope behind all this pestering is that I'll eventually fat-finger the wrong option, and then forget to cancel the service.
Is there any way to get whatever algorithm is targeting me to, well, stop asking? At least for a while?
- paulcole 5y agoIf you can afford it, YouTube Premium is an incredible ad-free experience. I subscribed a couple years ago and can’t imagine ever canceling it. Plus it includes YouTube Music and if you aren’t locked into Spotify/Apple Music, you can just switch to that for your streaming music needs.
- iab 5y agoUmatrix + Adblock plus
- muzani 5y agoI just buy it to make it disappear. It has the side effect of making all the other annoying ads disappear too. They're purposely annoying you to get money, and it worked.
- webmaven 5y agoWell, it hasn't worked on me yet.
- paulcole 5y agoYou showed them!
- kevincox 5y agoThis approach didn't work for me. I bought it and kept getting ads to watch their originals and other features that I had no interest in. I paid to make all of the crap get out of my way. It didn't work, then they killed some important-to-me features so I unsubscribed and started using an ad blocker.
- html5web 5y agoDelete your YouTube app, install ad blocker and use it on the browser
- funkidredd 5y agoHi mate. Wherever you can install android apk's, use https://vanced.app https://vanced.app for the legit YouTube experience without ads. Hope this helps.
- adhesive_wombat 5y agoI still get the trial nags on app start sometimes, both with Vanced and Vanced Music. But once I get past that nag, there are no ads other than a few unskippable things occasionally inserted into the "shorts" TikTok clone.
- Jabihjo 5y agoyour page is being flagged as suspicious in my browser. I used a search engine and came across this instead: https://vancedapp.com/ https://vancedapp.com/
- DarthNebo 5y agoYou could use element blocking on Brave or similar addons on Chrome/FF/Safari
- e-clinton 5y agoTake the free trial and then cancel it
- 369548684892826 5y agoI did this just to make the popups stop and sadly it doesn’t work. Popups resume after the trial.
- h4waii 5y agoNewPipe with SponsorBlock [0] is an open source YouTube client for Android which I can highly recommend, and hopefully you already know about uBlock and uMatrix. 0. https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe https://github.com/polymorphicshade/NewPipe
- thy77 5y agoIs new pipe or vanced better for use on android tv / nvidia shield tv?
- resoluteteeth 5y ago"smart YouTube tv" is the best for TVs
- nicbou 5y agoUse the mobile website with an ad blocker. YouTube is better in Firefox than in the app.
- nacho-daddy 5y agoPihole
- swah 5y agoI pay it and not having ads on TVs is awesome. Would pay a similar amount for an ad-free Twitter.
- more_corn 5y agoWhy do we tolerate products that nag forever? Nobody wants that, nobody likes that. When people behave badly we need to shun them and the things they make. There’s nothing special about YouTube. Stop using it.