Anyone use YouTube Premium to escape YT's screaming ads? Or something similar?

Yes, I watch Youtube all the time and the modest cost of Premium is well worth it.

 

I just broke down and got Premium the other day. Haven't seen any ads since. If you watch on computer there are some pretty effective ad blockers, I've heard. I'm in the process of cable cutting so felt it was worth it as I'm watching tons of YT now.

 

What's it cost? I'm extremely cheap, but maybe I'd do 15 bucks month for no ads.

 

On my PC's I use a hosts file that blocks ads, spyware, malware and other junk. This includes YouTube ads.

Unfortunately, tech oligarchs have made this quite difficult to do on mobile devices to protect their ad business.

 

i use adblocker and it works everywhere

even on guitar forums

 

Looks like there's actually a 3-month trial happening now-

"A Cyber Week special: Get 3 free months of ad-free videos and music. Offer ends Sunday, December 6."

https://www.youtube.com/premium

I might give it a try, thanks for the heads up.

 

Hey Roscoe - I have a lot of grading coming up too...misery loves company!

 

+1

 

THIS

 

The ads are really annoying. I can't imagine that they actually work to get someone to buy their product. I may go in for the $11.99.

 

It's OK... we've all smelled that smoke before. It ain't the first time a semester's ended and this is a rough one.

Students are reading way more variety than I did. Basically, books and magazines were all the text I had in my life. Students read books, internet articles, posts, product reviews, forums, websites, FAQs, text messages, advertisements, etc. They are also code-switching constantly in their writing and the difference between formal and informal when I was a kid was WAY smaller than the difference between formal and informal now.

From what I've seen, most can do what you ask but you need to orient them really well before you wind them up and turn them loose. My field is basically everything we're not allowed to talk about here (which is why I spend so much time here) so forgive lack of specifics but:

"I'm going to begin grading by reading just the first sentence of every paragraph by itself. The topic sentence must be first. I know that some paragraphs have the topic sentence elsewhere, but not in this class. That's not a choice I'm leaving to you. Do it my way."

"I want over 80% of the supporting sentences in your paper to have multiple citations. That way you cannot fall into the trap of focusing on one source you managed to locate in 10 minutes on ProQuest and instead must craft sentences that demonstrate some breadth of content knowledge. I will count them."

My papers are about 1/5th as long as other prof's papers. I have no idea why anyone assigns 10 page papers and then has to read 10 pages of [email protected] per student. The 200-level students have 12 weeks to write 2 pages. That's actually more space than I've had in grant proposals and journal submissions, so it's not like I'm out of alignment with the discipline.

The other thing I do is tell them that their opinion is really not something that's relevant to my class.

"It's like making buildings. You can have an opinion about whether a building is beautiful or ugly. You can also understand the physics of why buildings don't fall over. But you can't pass a class on the physics of buildings by talking about the beauty of buildings. Honestly, I have nothing to say about your opinion about anything. It's just not what we're doing here."

Once I get them oriented they do much better overall.

 

adblocker is free

 

Yep, AdBlock=free

 

I pay 60 bucks a month for YouTubeTV.
You would think they would throw in the ad free you tube..

 

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