Tons of people have premium because they just go along with whatever pointless consumerism they are told to.
I use premium. It’s great. We can’t have everything for free. Someone has to pay for it.
I’m fine with having a multi billion dollar company and idiots who support said company pay for my use of their infrastructure :)
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.
That’s basically my take. If they decided to make a genuine effort to make the platform better for creators and viewers, I’ll reward those efforts with my money. However, their decisions over the past few years are incredibly out of touch with creators and viewers, so I’ll continue to partially adblock them and subscribe to small business competitors.
I can
Thanks.
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.
I totally agree. I feel that the services I get for my membership fee are adequate. It is not problem for me to pay for a decent service. The day they inject ads into a paid account is the day I leave, however.
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.
I already do that, I also have adguard blocking ads on my whole network.
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
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…
This is the way.
I’ve been paying since the early GPM days and at this point, everything else is more expensive. It just makes financial sense to keep YT Premium.
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.
I wouldn’t feel guilty. A lot of the content creators make some really great stuff that takes a lot of their own time and resources, why shouldn’t they get paid for that?
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.
I don’t think you should feel guilty if you use it. I’m at a point where i have more enjoyment in finding youtube adblock loopholes than using youtube itself. I don’t have a console but i’d love to find a good adblock/sponsorblock that works on a ps 5
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
I installed Altserver and uYou yesterday, great experience so far (the same without ads and with sponsorblock by default, no jailbreak, iOS)
Are companies like Google and Conde Nast trying to criminalize ad blocking and apps like NewPipe yet?
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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 from videos, but I use SponsorBlock for that.
YouTube had me as a paying subscriber until they fucked it all up. Great job assholes.
They technically already get 300 Dollars a year out of you without you ever subscribing so who’s laughing now?
This was a good one too!
Missing an option to “Delete account”
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
Do they have the IP location BS others have to crackdown on geo location?
If my kids want to use it at school or grandma’s is different than using it at home?
Or are we all geofenced to my address?On my family plan, one lives 100 miles away and another lives in a different state
Thanks for the Intel kind stranger
I too have the family plan, it’s six accounts anywhere. I got moved from Play Music, don’t really watch videos but husband and kids do.
“everyone”? Lmao
I know tonnes of people who pay for premium
Also if you have Spotify you can just cancel that and use YouTube music instead.
Plus, in my experience, YouTube Music has a MUCH broader selection than $potify.
I pay for the family plan. My parents and brother and such use it like mad.
Definitely worth it to me considering how many devices it runs on. Also, I can download gigs of videos and watch them on commutes or on a flight.
It’s something I happily pay for. My family and I use it everyday.
Yup, OP is out of touch
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.
Content creators are a dime a dozen to them. And it’s easy to see why. They’re running an advertising platform, not a nursery for budding filmmakers. We create the value for youtube, they reap the profits.
Yeah the way they treat the creators on their platform, the way they handle copyright claims, the way they handle flase copyright claims, the way their algorithm radicalized a populace, their child feed is unmanaged and feeds children exploited by the worst of content farms, and the fact that they have a monopoly over the online video market.
I understand the web has a problem with monetizing content and its killing things like journalism and a lot of the third party internet, but I will continue to not feel bad about the expenses that the billion dollar company has to spend on server costs.
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No idea what you‘re talking about. Ad block takes care of that. Even works on apple. Havent seen an ad in years.
I use my iPhone mostly for music like 95% how do you use an ad block
Go to safari settings and check for extensions I think. Then choose one and install it. Done.
Ah I’m on the Firefox app, so I could just make a home screen safari shortcut
Yes. Sadly the other browsers didnt have that when I installed the safari extension.
Revanced doesn’t block them. I get them maybe once a week
I also get them occasionally despite having “Hide Youtube Premium promotion” enabled in Revanced:Extended. I haven’t updated in a long time however, so it might be fixed in later versions
Any reason you’re not using Ublock?
Or revanced on mobile
or smarttube on android tv
Libretube
Or Invidious instances
I have YouTube Premium, and I use it since I watch YouTube on my Xbox. Can’t use Ublock Origin on Xbox.
Ublock Origin
Ublock is a totall unrelated extension.
