I was part of the Initial YouTube Premium (YouTube Red anyone?) So I havent had to see ads on any of my family devices in YEARS. Back when Google Play Music was included with it. Such a freaking bargin back then, bailed on Spotify immediately.
I realize that that stupid little choice has changed the way I consumed content. I don’t watch traditional media nearly at all anymore. Same for my siblings and cousins who’re on my family plan. I also like the fact it more directly supports the creators I come back to week after week.
The price increases have been a lot, and I’m fortunate to be able to pay for it. As my sole streaming platform I pay for, I find its worth the value. That DOESNT mean I agree with the scummy policies they’ve been implementing. It just sucks that with my conintued payment it sort of reflects the idea I am.
I’m glad I’m not the only one. I get more value out of YT Premium than any other streaming service.
I’ve also been with Premium since the YouTube Red days. It was nice to have peace of mind of no ads on my TV (didn’t need PiHole) and mobile devices (iOS was wrestling with device adblockers for a while). I was grandfathered into the old pricing model until recently. It’s still not that bad per person, but if they raise it too much more, I’m gonna bail.
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Actually it’s quite the opposite, some of my friends are considering buying YouTube premium and even people on the other social media sites are advocating it as the “only good subscription”.
Plus one. Switched to it from Deezer as i couldnt listen to everything i wanted.
Am happy. Never had ads before but supporting the few youtubers i watch also feels good-er
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I have premium and have never seen this before
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The ad companies literally overabused it so much we learned mind-adblock anything that’s not directly overlapping the content. That’s why they need to be overabusing the pre- and mid- video ads so much now.
YouTube Premium is actual cancer
Is this actually real? Wow.
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Those are not ads, they are just helpful product suggestions!
“Oh, you’re not interested? Let us increase our aggressive advertising and fight against ad-blocks to change your mind then”
I haven’t seen Louis Rossman’s new video where the thumbnail claims their war on adblockers is backfiring, but i’m quite curious as i also found an adblocker for my smart tv that i’m going to try out when i get home from work.
If youtube is ever able to completely make it so I can’t block ads, I will stop using youtube. I’ve stopped using reddit and have never gone back. I will get by.
I have YT Premium and I really don’t mind paying. I watch a LOT of YT and making sure the creators I follow get paid for their work is important to me.
Patreon seems like a good alternative to support the creators.
YouTube premium isn’t the way to make sure the creators get paid, since you’re sending that money to YouTube first. It’s way better to donate them directly or buy their merch etc.
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Or you simply don’t pay anything at all for either service by downloading add-ons that unlock Premium
xManager & Revanced on Android, literally the only reasons (+ Stremio) I will never buy an iPhone as long as these services exist. You save hundreds of dollars every year. Revanced has more options than YouTube Premium too, like automatically skipping sponsor sections.
I’m all for paying for the media I consume, but I will never pay for YouTube. First and foremost, I don’t think they pay artists enough, which is why I buy all my music albums individually on services such as Bandcamp.
Second, I believe Google is working hard on turning the internet into a privacy violating walled garden riddled with unblockable ads, where all relevant technologies and standards are de facto controlled by them. I use uBlock and reVanced to block ads on YouTube and pay content creators through Patreon because I WANT to hurt Google financially by spending their compute resources without giving them ad impressions. I think everyone should do the same.
This is the same comment the crops up every time a meme critical of YouTube premium pops up. I’m starting to think it’s a copypasta.
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Really? All of my old lossless Google Music albums are still there.
Was your stuff on play music seriously your sole copy?
There’s plenty of good reason to be cautious with Google services, but this isn’t one of them.
While I’d consider data-loss unacceptable with an actual cloud storage platform like dropbox or drive, even there not having backups would 100% be on you. Play music never claimed to be that, all it advertised was being able to stream your music, not store it in perpetuity. The product was convenience, not security. (And didn’t they offer take-out on your play music data? I coulda sworn that was a thing.)
And do look into off-site backups, if you haven’t already.
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You either just moved the goalpost on me or suck at making a point.
My problem is that your comment can be read as an endorsement for self-hosted solutions and a denouncement of commercial solutions. Even if you do know better now, your comment still clearly blames the service, and holds up your own solution as “better” when best practice is doing both.
You have your own backups, because they might screw up, but you also have backups on their system, because you might screw up.
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You’re mad because you’re being called out. Grow the fuck up.
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Okay, I lol’d
Minäkin osaan vaihtaa kieltä. Mutta se ei juuri tee minua uskottavaksi. Päinvastoin.
Yes, I took issue with how you wrote your initial comment and what readers might take from it, and that’s where it could have started and ended. Yet, I’m not the guy who retorted with “you missed the entire point” while missing the entire point.
Nor am I the guy who pulled out “grow up”. Very effective… If you don’t have an actual retort, shut the fuck up.
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Two people talking, doesn’t mean either is getting through to the other, unfortunately.
And by taking the “haahaa, you replied” angle, you’ve now revealed your goal to be something other than changing someone’s mind. But rather, to annoy, to get back at someone.
Very noble.
I’d consider subscribing to YouTube premium but their scummy policies they thrust on their creators is absolutely terrible. It must be hell trying to tip toe around their platform.
The problem is that every other streaming service is fucking over their content creators too (part of the reason of both the SAG-AFTRA strike and the now ended writer’s strike). So any service you’re paying for has scummy policies in that department.
It’s a good thing I don’t pay for any of them. Arrrgg me bucko
People pay for all the other streaming services, god forbid YT wants to have you as a customer instead of a product.
As long as it’s a vote for Google to move away from ads (and they don’t pull a hulu and start showing ads anyway), and it continues being one of the better ways to send money towards artists and creators, I’m down.
oh, you are still a product, just paying for the privilege.
Right, but the same applies to literally any other company that has graced modern earth. That’s not a matter where you can still pick a candidate to vote with your wallet for, and I’m not pirating the content of honest artists and youtubers if there’s an alternative.
That it’s currently a step away from the fiasco that is the ad-driven internet, is a bonus. Besides, for how long is collecting marketing data on people who’d rather pay to not to be marketed to, gonna be the profitable option?
I took it for the summer because we move a lot with the kids and it’s useful for them to be able to download videos. They’ve been harrassing me so much to get back on through ads that I finally installed an Adblock.
I’ve had YouTube Music since it was Google Play Music. So I haven’t had ads in about a decade or so.
Only reason I do it is because I use YouTube on platforms where I don’t know how to install adblocks like smart TVs and stuff
Then this is what you you are looking for https://github.com/yuliskov/smarttube
Pay for no ads, still get spied on
