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iAmTheTot ,

YT premium is a good value for me and my family. Guess I’m evil.

Diplomjodler3 ,

Literally Satan.

Ohmmy ,

I wish I could be as pleased with it. I don’t want to pay for a service and have that service still collect data on me to push ads elsewhere.

Blue_Morpho ,

Unfortunately that’s everything. Netflix, buying groceries with a credit card, even driving your new car.

Rolando ,

It doesn’t have to be this way. Somewhere in the past something went wrong.

10_0 ,

Newpipe

GiveMemes ,

Yeah until it gets shot by A/B testing again lol. I poverty newpipe, but foe somebody with a family it’s hard to justify, especially bc the non-techies of the fam are gonna want something that ‘just works’.

bloubz ,

It’s Google.

mub ,

My 3 kids all use iPhone and we have a bunch of chrome casts. The only practical way to avoid the ads in YTP.

MeatsOfRage , (edited )

Same. I watch more YouTube than probably any other streaming service. Plus I got the family plan and I sell the extra seats to my extended family and friends. Works out to be pretty cheap in the end.

I do the same for Spotify, Disney plus. Formally Netflix but they cut down on password sharing

I_Has_A_Hat ,

If you have YouTube premium, why do you have Spotify? YouTube music is comparable and better in some cases.

turbowafflz ,

I don’t pay for either but I use both and the youtube music desktop ui is really really bad. Plus the annoying thing of it often playing music videos instead of the normal song. I definitely like it better on mobile though

riodoro1 ,

Paying for services?

Absolute evil.

metaStatic ,

Literally Hitler

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S ,
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

“Absolute evil” is a bit of a stretch, but it’s YouTube/Google’s fault (by closing off and centralizing their video platform) that it is impossible to go elsewhere for videos.

riodoro1 ,

Google just made it really hard for creators to go anywhere else and created a monopoly of sorts.

Literally every corporation does or attempts to do the same thing. What we would need is to revive the politicians that broke up rockefellers empire and tell them to do the same with apple, microsoft, google, meta, amazon and every tech „giant”.

No more providing every imaginable service under one company.

PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S ,
@PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Literally every corporation does or attempts to do the same thing.

Exactly. Every single corporation is evil and should be dismantled 🔥🔥🔥. This is just one of a thousand reasons to do so.

gndagreborn ,
@gndagreborn@lemmy.world avatar

I agree that YouTube is Google monopoly, but I I’ve been wondering… They handle massive amounts of data. Would any other non-trillion dollar company be even capable of storing, processing, and presenting videos on the same scale, with the same quality, and with what is arguably very good latency world wide?

What could competitors do to beat Google without hemorrhaging their money just trying the manage the overhead?

Lightor ,

I mean this is every ecosystem though right? YouTube, Apple, Steam, everyone tries their best to do it because they want you locked in.

10_0 ,

Newpipe

PineRune ,

I kinda got grandfathered into Youtube Music by using (and enjoying) Google Music, and since YT Premium was only like $2 more, I got it. I primarily use it for the music. The no-ads is just a bonus for me, I guess.

Thorry84 ,

I did the exact same. Google Play Music was actually a good service back in the day. I hated it when they turned it into YouTube Music. I complained about all the broken stuff, so they gave me a home speaker for free and upgraded me to YT Premium for a year. After that year I stuck with YT Premium, since it was less than $2 extra. They also fixed a lot of stuff I complained about. Not everything, but a lot of it. I think YT Music was released a bit before it was ready. Now it still has some issues, but is mostly fine.

Usually I watch 1 or 2 YouTube videos a day and without Premium I would most definitely not. I opened a YouTube video on a computer I wasn’t signed in the other day and it started with a 2 minute unskipable ad about crypto stuff (an obvious scam). So I closed it real fast, no video is worth sitting through that. Even with Premium I still need SponsorBlock. But with that combination watching videos is actually fun.

Still listen to YouTube Music all day at work, so that’s a good value for money for me.

variants ,

I think that’s why a lot of people dislike youtube premium, because it seems they made the free youtube intentionally very annoying to use without it. Similar to spotify where if you use the free version there’s a ton of ads and half of them are from spotify themselves asking if you’re tired of the ads

MeowZedong ,
@MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml avatar

Yeah, same. I installed UBlock Origin on my Firefox browser for free and gotta say that enjoying YouTube and YT Music Ad-Free is the way to do it!

NutWrench ,
@NutWrench@lemmy.ml avatar

Remember when the big selling point of cable TV was no advertising? And then it became 99% ads?

Yeah.

Annoyed_Crabby ,

Thank, finally i can be evil without doing the genocide.

amw3i7dwgoblinlabs ,
@amw3i7dwgoblinlabs@lemmy.world avatar

Wheres the fun in that?

sirico ,
@sirico@feddit.uk avatar

Smarttube for your android based tv things like firesticks

AstralPath ,

Of all the current media subscription services, this is the one I have no issue paying for. The service I get for the money I pay is appropriate. I’ve taken my own measures to limit the amount of PII that Google can vacuum up from my life as well. I’m fine with them knowing what I like to watch and providing algorithmic recommendations for new content. I police said algorithm aggressively to ensure its always on topic and never trying to show me ragebait or shit I don’t want to see.

When the day comes that the cost outweighs the return I’ll stop paying for it and use Grayjay or Newpipe or whatever other option there is. If its a full on dystopia by then, well y’know what? I don’t need Youtube to survive. I’ll be fine without it.

supertrucker ,

I thought the devil created Chihuahuas with that chance

Living_Dead ,

I am displeased with premium these days. My use of premium was to remove ads and give creators a little more money. The issue today is every single video will have a sponsor spot that is an ad. So here I am paying extra to get rid of ads and the creator just made their own. Using sponsor block has become a requirement to get past the wall of ads.

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