I still maintain that YT Premium is a great service if you're like a lot of people and YT is the majority of your online video consumption. From a price to use comparison standpoint, it's unbeaten. Netflix, Hulu, Crunchyroll, etc all pale in comparison.

But their insistence on bumping up prices, bundling YT Music and their war on ad blockers now is making it really hard to try to keep it. Hopefully now that Google is trying to cash in, we get some real competitors. Because right now when it comes to the sheer amount of content, visual quality and reliability of streaming nothing compares.

They've been also serving ads for YouTube premium as well recently

My guess it that it's to rope in people who don't use adblock

A few months ago I was thinking about getting YouTube premium. It's a platform I'm on everyday and have been using it for years. But they decided to block adblockers and increase prices, so they can go fuck themselves.

uBlock beat the filters almost immediately. Annoyingly for google once you've downloaded something its out of their hands.

I was honestly thinking about buying premium, so I would support the creators. Welp, that's out of the window.

I pay for YouTube because I leave it on basically all day. It's worth the 14ish(I don't remember) a month. I just wish more of my pay would go to the creators.

For youtube revanced, use revanced manager

The less people who watch YouTube, the less valuable those ads are, and therefore the less valuable premium just be.

Have YouTube viewers been going up to justify ads being more valuable?

I will do everything within my power to take from them as much and give back as little as I can.

YouTube sucks ass now anyway, just don't watch it

I don't need YouTube that much. It's competing with books, more traditional TV shows and movies, and Nebula / Curiosity Stream and Wondrium / LinkedIn Learning. I guess I might miss some reaction videos, but oh well.

And I'm from a country where YouTube Premium isn't even available.

I'd even be willing to consider paying them, if it was not as pricey and came with less bullshit.

Obviously, even compared to yt premium, third party Foss solutions are by far superior, but to support the creators, it would be okay.

Yet, when they higher the already ridiculous price further, I'm noting out.

I'm shocked /s