@balderdash9 YouTube Premium is actually a great value if you're like me and use YouTube Music as your main music app. It's only a few dollars more than Spotify and I get ad free YouTube included.
I agree. I have the YouTube Premium Family Plan.
For me, the price for Spotify and YouTube Premium famil was really close, and getting ad free YouTube and downloads in app for the same price sold it
Plus, YouTube Music lets you add versions of songs on YouTube that aren’t official (at least it did).
So, yeah, the way they push insane ads is terrible, but I like the product
Your comment just reminded me that I've been paying for the family plan to include my father. The same guy that just kicked me out of the house I'd been paying him rent for.
Screw that guy. Enjoy your unskippable ads pops!
YouTube Music replacing Play Music is the main reason why Google can go fuck itself with YouTube Premium
Why is that a bad thing? Genuine question, not rhetorical.
That just means that you get more with your subscription (YouTube features as well) doesn't it?
Because Play Music was a vastly superior product and they killed it to push people to pay for YouTube Premium.
Yeah I've been using the subscription since it was rolled into Google Music (RIP). Also use the family plan which helps with the value prop as well.
Yeah, but you get all of the crappy mp3 torrent rips that people uploaded as part of your music list that you pay for. Low quality music stream that costs money? No thanks!
What? YouTube music is professionally sourced music like any other major service. You can upload your own music for personal use, but included music comes from the publishers.
Where did you get that crazy idea?
You know what the problem is? it's that Youtube and more broadly speaking Google have completely squandered the benefit of the doubt.
All the shit about demonetizing channels for breaking ever shifting rules they haven't published...no. If Youtube treated content creators well, I might consider it, but they don't so I don't.
YouTube: okay that's cool. How about now? Wanna try YouTube premium?
You: NO
YouTube: okay that's cool. How about now?
No idea what you‘re talking about. Ad block takes care of that. Even works on apple. Havent seen an ad in years.
I know this won't be the most popular opinion, but honestly if they hadn't raised the price and I had the money, I probably would have YouTube premium. This is only because YouTube happens to be my main source of video entertainment, informational content, etc. and I also use YouTube music for all my music (though I highly recommend the app InnerTune to anyone that wants to be able to turn their phone off while listening to music etc.) Now that the price is so much higher, it's not even close to worth it, but if it was... I don't know, 5 bucks a month? Sure, I'll pay it. Ofc if much rather pay like 50 bucks for a lifetime subscription, but god knows they're never doing that.
I had it and cancelled after they raised the price. You're google, you don't need more of my money.
It's about $5 a month if you have a family plan with every slot filled. Works out GREAT if you have that many people willing to pay in
I already had adblock before the whole stupid adblock block. I support the creators I watch, can listen to videos with the screen off, and I also use YT Music, so its a good deal for me.
I can however understand anyone who doesnt want to pay for YT Premium and doesnt want to be blasted by scam ads. Ads shouldnt be this annoying.
Just want to mention that if you're affected by the anti-adblock, use µBlock Origin. It's usually updated about as fast as the anti-adblock is.
YouTube had me as a paying subscriber until they fucked it all up. Great job assholes.
I pay for premium because I don't have a real PC. Heresy, I know. When I watch YouTube on my PS5 app I can't use an adblocker. There's solutions, sure, but I've gotten rid of almost every other sub service BUT YouTube prem at this point.
I guess I'm saying all of this because I feel guilty about paying for YouTube fucking premium lmao
Don't feel guilty. If it works for you, that's all that matters. I've been a Premium customer for a few years now just because I think the provided services and lack of ads are worth it. Nothing wrong with paying for services you enjoy.
Ehh, I have it too and I don't mind paying. But, I'm still paying $7.99 a month since I was an early adopter of Google music, R.I.P....
To me it is the opposite.
I will never use a network device to browse the internet if it doesn't have a proper adblocker.
Don't feel guilthy though
Here's a trick, don't let YT know: if you close the video as soon as an ad loads, there will be no ads when you open it again.
Best deal is YT premium family, I have 5 or 6 people on it with no commercials on YT and YT music which is great for our use cases as well. Yes it's like $25 a month, but everyone that uses it loves it!
I consume a lot of YT, for "How it's made" and project shows there really isn't anything remotely comparable. No ads and FF through sponsored content is awesome.
Best deal is running an invidious server.
Literally entire youtube, free without ads, no account to do tracking, easy download button and best of all straightforward home page that can list uploads from subscriptions.
Honestly if this suits your family keep it. But youtube exploiting its creators for admoney cannot be the best deal.
I believe someone else mentioned 55% of premium revenue goes to creators. That is a fairly significant share, plus the cost of hosting content and maintaining the appliances etc etc. It seems reasonable to me for less than $5 per person per month.
I use premium. It’s great. We can’t have everything for free. Someone has to pay for it.
Well, I'd pay, if the service was worth it. What do you get in return? Your data is still collected, youtubers are still being shat on with arbitrary rules and almost instant demonetization, unlawful DMCA strikes that can doxx you, and dumb features like removing dislikes.
If they improve the customer service and start working WITH creators instead of against them, then I will gladly pay.
I can
This was a good one too!
Missing an option to "Delete account"
Content creators get 55% of the value of YouTube Premium. That's one of the major reasons I got it. I only wish it could remove sponsored fragments (fuck these) from videos, but I use SponsorBlock for that.
That's not the official site, so I wouldn't trust it.
Official is https://revanced.app/
Tons of people have premium because they just go along with whatever pointless consumerism they are told to.
I would have been a begrudging subscriber if they hadn't removed the dislike count and forced ads on unmonetized creators and took all the money from those ads. But because they did that, I got a subscription to Nebula instead.
Do you realise how ridiculously expensive it is for Google to store all these videos? To be honest I'm surprised how long they've survived, without charging.
You essentially get unlimited free video storage using YouTube, yes I suspect 90% of it is crap. But it's amazing that Google still offer that. Running YouTube must be significantly more expensive than any other similar services like Netflix, YouTube, Instagram etc.
Well, guess what. Poor Google knew and should've thought about that before buying YouTube. Nobody forced them to.
If they successfully stop Adblocking I’m going all in on Odyssee and Peertube. I’ve been slowly migrating already anyway
Are companies like Google and Conde Nast trying to criminalize ad blocking and apps like NewPipe yet?
Revanced and smarttube
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