In addition to removing ads in YouTube, it also gives ad-free YouTube Music (which fucking sucks because it always plays the video version of the audio). But honestly, the biggest problem is the app itself shoving shorts down your throat and lacking a bunch of features that third-party clients have. And even if you pay to remove ads from YouTube, you can’t pay to remove ads from the videos themselves. You can only do that with sponsorblock, which YouTube could totally just adopt if they wanted but as is, you have to use third part apps anyway.
I’ve only had that problem with YouTube Music if I’m trying to listen from inside YouTube itself (via clicking Music in YouTube’s sidebar). Both the actual Music app and webpage both seem to play the audio-only versions, not the music video versions. I’ve got plenty of songs that if I try listening through YouTube will have the video version (often with end title cards and whatnot).
In addition to removing ads in YouTube, it also gives ad-free YouTube Music (which fucking sucks because it always plays the video version of the audio). But honestly, the biggest problem is the app itself shoving shorts down your throat and lacking a bunch of features that third-party clients have. And even if you pay to remove ads from YouTube, you can’t pay to remove ads from the videos themselves. You can only do that with sponsorblock, which YouTube could totally just adopt if they wanted but as is, you have to use third part apps anyway.
I’ve only had that problem with YouTube Music if I’m trying to listen from inside YouTube itself (via clicking Music in YouTube’s sidebar). Both the actual Music app and webpage both seem to play the audio-only versions, not the music video versions. I’ve got plenty of songs that if I try listening through YouTube will have the video version (often with end title cards and whatnot).
I disabled them in settings a couple of years ago and have not had issues since.
That switch does not work. It turns off the videos but still plays the video versions, which is even worse. I’m not sure it even knows the difference.