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YouTube Premium just got more expensive again: now $16 a month, or $27 for families
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The ones who scream the loudest about this never have a solution for Apple devices and it’s annoying.
They exist; people just don’t take the time to figure it out and give an answer.
As much as I disagree with their practices, Brave browser on iOS will block YT ads.
On iOS you can get uBlock Origin Lite for Safari and it works very well. You can also download the Orion browser which lets you get Firefox and Chrome extensions and can get uBO or whatever else that way too.
We saw Apple's closed ecosystem as the trap that it is, and avoided it. Can't really help you if you're still inside the cage.
You're also missing out on a bunch of other cool shit, honestly.
But I get it, it is convenient. I'm not mad. I just also can't help you fly free until you leave the cage.
“Flee the cage” to another company that’s going to limit what I can and can’t load AND is selling my data at every possible moment?
Who’s the one deluding themselves now?
I didn't recommend Google and I don't sit in their cage either.
We early adopters are so far further away than you imagine.
Here's the starter kit, if you're ready:
Edit: lol. fuck it, you sound angry, and anger might be what you need to go all the way. Added link to GrapheneOs.
So what company do you recommend?
I recommend freedom.
Like Christmas in Whoville, freedom doesn't come wrapped in a company.
Freedom comes from standing in the cold naked air on open source software with no cloud services except what you can wrangle from the earth with your own two hands.
Edit: All this discussion has me worked up. I'm going to go use hand tools to carve a canue.
So no real answer.
There is no corporate answer.
Edit: Hyperbole aside, here's some real answers that much of the early adopter freedom loving community find good enough:
You can actually buy your next laptop from Tuxedo or Framework, to get a laptop that just works with Linux pre-installed.
For phones, it sounds like you're aware that there are no compromise-free answers today.
But you can put LineageOS on almost anything (check the wiki, first) in about 5 minutes, and it will actually be your phone, unshackled from Google, Apple or Microsoft.
Then you can re-shackle it to either Google or Microsoft on your own terms with a library called microg, which gives you just enough right answers to their crapware APIs to make your phone look shackled, without actually being shackled.
Edit 2:
Back to your original point - I don't have any halfway solutions for Apple, for you.
I think some exist, but they're much lower quality, because there's a mich smaller community around them.
Apple has been fighting to keep people locked in for much longer than either Google or Microsoft have.
So your freedom-loving ally community still on Apple is smaller.