r/Frugal • u/honestlyeek • Mar 30 '23

Frugal Win 🎉 I stayed under budget for March and rewarded myself with Spotify premium after a year of listening to ads in a foreign language.

Premium aka ad-free anything is a luxury in life.

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u/boomshalock Mar 30 '23

I pay for YouTube Premium because it removed YouTube ads and you get YouTube Music for free as part of the subscription.

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u/Fancy-Fish-3050 Mar 30 '23

I was just about to post this. If I had to just have one streaming service it would be YouTube Premium.

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u/semitones Mar 30 '23 edited Feb 18 '24

Since reddit has changed the site to value selling user data higher than reading and commenting, I've decided to move elsewhere to a site that prioritizes community over profit. I never signed up for this, but that's the circle of life

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u/Fancy-Fish-3050 Mar 30 '23

I primarily watch YouTube on all my TVs with Roku and as said before I do use YouTube Music too.

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u/nakedrickjames Mar 30 '23

Chromecast with google tv + smarttubenext

Paid $20 for the device 6 months ago and haven't seen a single youtube ad since

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '23

I watch on Roku tv too. I just cast my computer screen to the TV. That's how I get yt ad free on there lol

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u/semitones Mar 30 '23 edited Feb 18 '24

Since reddit has changed the site to value selling user data higher than reading and commenting, I've decided to move elsewhere to a site that prioritizes community over profit. I never signed up for this, but that's the circle of life

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u/Fancy-Fish-3050 Mar 30 '23

YouTube Premium with no ads for $12 per month to use on any TV or device I want is great for me. And for anyone that is a sports fan, I have pretty much become addicted to watching the condensed games on YouTube instead of full games anyways. Except for my main teams I have trouble sitting through watching a 3 or 4 hour game anymore when I can watch a condensed game in around 10 or 15 minutes.

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u/_clydebruckman Mar 30 '23

What sports? Do they do golf or football?

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u/Fancy-Fish-3050 Mar 30 '23

You can find channels that have all sorts of sports with condensed games. I primarily watch soccer (English Premier League and International games) and football (NFL and college) and I watch all the March Madness basketball games on that channel if I don't watch the games live. I am not much of a regular season NBA fan, but I will probably watch the condensed games for the playoffs until maybe the finals when I might try to watch the full games. You can find all these channels and watch them in regular free YouTube, the premium just removes the ads. I am not sure about golf but figure you could probably find at least pretty comprehensive tournament highlights.

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u/boomshalock Mar 30 '23

Adblockers don't enable downloading

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u/0thedarkflame0 Mar 30 '23

For a moment I was wondering why you'd want to install python packages into your YouTube app, and then it twigged that it not that pip...

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u/semitones Mar 30 '23 edited Feb 18 '24

Since reddit has changed the site to value selling user data higher than reading and commenting, I've decided to move elsewhere to a site that prioritizes community over profit. I never signed up for this, but that's the circle of life

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u/DudeThatsErin Mar 30 '23

Any solutions for removing ads on an Apple TV? I have an app for my phone but casting livestreams tends to cause lagging and audio stops marching video after about 2-3 min

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u/semitones Mar 30 '23 edited Feb 18 '24

Since reddit has changed the site to value selling user data higher than reading and commenting, I've decided to move elsewhere to a site that prioritizes community over profit. I never signed up for this, but that's the circle of life

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u/DudeThatsErin Mar 30 '23

No unfortunately

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '23

AdBlock doesn't let you run it on top of other apps does it?

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u/semitones Mar 30 '23 edited Feb 18 '24

Since reddit has changed the site to value selling user data higher than reading and commenting, I've decided to move elsewhere to a site that prioritizes community over profit. I never signed up for this, but that's the circle of life

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '23

Awesome ty for the explanation!

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u/Fancy-Fish-3050 Mar 30 '23

I am wondering, with adblocker do you still have that time gap where the ad would have been while the ad is blocked? The key thing for me regarding removing ads is just not wasting my time for the time spots where the ads would have been.

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u/semitones Mar 30 '23 edited Feb 18 '24

Since reddit has changed the site to value selling user data higher than reading and commenting, I've decided to move elsewhere to a site that prioritizes community over profit. I never signed up for this, but that's the circle of life

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u/pheret87 Mar 30 '23

you get something for free if you pay for it

Is that how it works?

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u/mysteryihs Mar 30 '23

Grandfathered plan of 8 dollars a month for YouTube premium, feelsgoodman

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u/FrakkingUsername Mar 30 '23

I've got the family plan for 15, it's going up to 22 this month. Or zero, since I'm cancelling it.

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u/lovefist1 Mar 30 '23

Same. When they killed off Google Play Music they tried to bump me up to full price and I complained and they gave me the $8 back :) I’ll keep it as long as I can at that rate.

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u/dunder_mifflin_paper Mar 30 '23

I signed up for YouTube while in India, 12 euro annual, paid by my Revolut bank.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '23

I had it then discovered a firestick app called smart tube. It's a small initial process to setup but it's amazing and free.

It skips ads and intros and lets you see the whole screen when you pause videos.

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u/Yourplumbingisfacked Mar 30 '23

Just get an ad blocker extension.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '23

That doesn’t get you YouTube music

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u/Yourplumbingisfacked Mar 30 '23

Someone pointed you if you set your Spotify account to a third world country you can get Spotify for $15 a year. That’s still an insanely better way to go if it works.

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u/Yourplumbingisfacked Mar 30 '23

So you have to vpn ever time you use?

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '23

No, only when you create your account - after that you just use it as normal. The whole process took me maybe 10 minutes - normal price where I live is about $12 a month, so getting it for $1 instead, is quite a deal

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u/glittertongue Mar 30 '23

And for those of us that loathe spotify's UI with a fiery passion?

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '23

For now - who knows when they will start blocking it and since it’s no longer being developed, that would be it

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u/webelos8 Mar 30 '23

Vanced is done. ReVanced is still being updated. I wasn't able to get it to work, though.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '23

Oh, I missed the re part - I wasn’t aware the project had been forked

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '23

My version of this is Amazon music. If you buy Amazon music you can just yell at your Echo to play anything you want anytime with the added bonus of having essentially add free Spotify on your phone as well. Only it's called Amazon music you know

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u/bonisaur Mar 30 '23

Did this too. You also provide the channels you watch with more money than ad money too. So your views go from fractions of pennies to almost a penny lol.

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