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
I got it for the music streaming app and ad-less YouTube + some free movies. It’s great.
Please don’t ask me anything.
Yea I use YouTube a ton so it’s easily worth it for me
Same we got it for music and the rest is just bonus
Had it for nearly as long as it’s been a thing. I only remember I have it when I get a new phone and haven’t logged in yet.
Me too. The music app layout online and mobile are both absolute garbage. Kept Spotify anyway.
I’ve got it and like it AMA
What do you feel about giving your money to a company that truly doesn’t deserve it and can fuck up its customers whenever they can? Even more when you can get YouTube Premium features easily for free with a proper adblocker on PC (I mean, it is possible yet), Revanced on an Android phone, and Smart Tube Next on an Android TV setup box or capable TV (just to name a few options, especially of my setup).
I just hate the idea of paying so much not because great features but Google having beaten me into submission by taking away free features and introducing shitty stuff to force me to pay.
To be fair I never felt like Google beat me into submission. I pay for it because I consume so many hours of video that subscribing makes sense and gives some small amount to the creators I watch. That amount was zero before I subscribed, since I was blocking advertisements.
That said I do see the frustration. I don’t think they’ve gone about it in a great way.
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If I have no way to remove ads I would block them. If payment doesn’t remove ads, I’ll unsubscribe and block them.
Do you think everyone not paying is poor or greedy or entitled?
No.
Do you think that using adblocker is theft and on the same level as stealing a car?
(Just trying to make sure you’re not a linus in disguise)
Obviously it’s not like stealing a car and I’m pretty sure that’s a straw man, he just said it’s piracy, which I’d argue it is.
It’s like taking the train without paying, you aren’t inherently hurting anyone, but if no one pays/watches ads it’s not sustainable.
I don’t. I do block adverts when I cannot pay to remove them.
No one cares
No one cares that you don’t care
Fuckin speak for yourself I care that he doesn’t care.
I dont give a fuck about not giving a fuck, so I do give a fuck… Wait what?
(I give a fuck…)
About anything, I love everyone and care about everything
(I give a fuck…)
I literally care about every motherfucking thing
I give a negative number of fucks, but that underflowed so now i give
1.845*10^19fucks
That’s a weird question!
Honestly I hate the damn YouTube premium ads more than any other that I’ve seen on the platform.
Ok maybe not quite as bad as the freaking Genshin ads. Fuck you Natasha!
I technically have it via Youtube ReVanced.
Emails are open; Calls are relayed to Kurt due to me being on vacation. I will make sure to look at new emails at least once every day.
Did… did you include an away message in your comment? Or am I missing a joke here?
Hey, thanks for contacting! I’m very happy to be able to tell you, that you were correct on both sides.
The joke was that there was someone that has Youtube Premium and wants to do an AMA and then there was someone that didn’t want to do an AMA. I have Youtube ReVanced which is kind of the middle ground between Premium and free and I made my availability the middle ground between 24/7 and 1/7 availability. Well, ‘middle ground’ in that case is kind of the wrong word since my availability actually is just 1/7.
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I would honestly would be willing to pay for third party app usage as long as it was private.
Maybe peertube will get more popular?
Not sure if that’s what you are asking, but there’s https://grayjay.app/ (also https://futo.org/) connected with Louis Rossmann, that is meant to bundle multiple streaming service. If is meant to give power to creators, by not forcing them to YouTube.
It ain’t Foss so it isn’t for me
I thought about getting it (instead of Amazon Music), but now YouTube is already planning to raise the cost. So nah, I’m good.
This is the only thing that kept me from caving in and buying it
Just gonna add that Apple Music is raising prices as well in December
I was really interested in it when it came out on my region and still use it, better than acting like it’s up to me to manually decide which content creator I bless with any sort of payment and which I don’t.
If ads were the only reason, I know how to evade them in just about every platform I use.
I used to pay for YouTube Red and Google Play Music. I was a really happy customer until they got rid of play music. Now I would have been fine with YouTube music but they deleted my entire archive of music. Including CDs that I had ripped from local bands years ago. All gone.
It was that moment I cancelled my subscription and started looking into other options. The more I dug the more I found out about personal security and self hosting. Now I have most of my music back and it’s stored locally on my own drives where only my own lack of care or management will screw with my backups going forward.
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.
It is on me. Education is an important thing. You missed the point of my entire comment.
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.
You’re picking a fight in the comments section of a meme post. Grow the fuck up.
You’re mad because you’re being called out. Grow the fuck up.
我敢打賭你翻譯這個是浪費時間。這對你來說還不夠成熟嗎？我可以
Minäkin osaan vaihtaa kieltä. Mutta se ei juuri tee minua uskottavaksi. Päinvastoin.
Okay, I lol’d
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.
I dunno. I got you to write two more paragraphs. Seems pretty effective to me.
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.
Really? All of my old lossless Google Music albums are still there.
Google Music was my go-to music streaming service, then they turned it into Youtube Red, then they changed it to Youtube Premium. So for me, I pay for a great music service, and I just happen to never see ads on youtube.
I switched from Spotify because their personalized mixes and radio stations stopped letting you thumbs down songs. I got sick of hearing the exact same crap on my mixes. And no matter how many times I fucking skipped it, my metal mix would always play Mother by Danzig early in the playlist. No matter what I actually listened to, my “personalized” mixes always had the same crap on it. Thumbs down a song on a mix or radio on YT Music? It goes away forever.
Deezer also played the same few songs over and over. YT Music even has a mode to only play songs that i don’t have in my likes. Awesome.
YT Music even has a mode to only play songs that i don’t have in my likes. Awesome.
I don’t know this one, how do I find this? Thanks.
What’s that App?
Yeah, the people who had the music subscription are the winners in this situation since they get ad-free YT for just a fraction of the cost. If you were only subscribed to Premium to get rid of the ads, you now also have to pay the bundled music subscription you don’t need, which sucks.
Same, there’s more music than spotify and the max quality isn’t too dissimilar and notably both max out above “CD quality”, which is what 95%+ of albums are released at
Also the recommendation algorithm (IMO, as this is where it gets subjective) is far superior to any alternatives - it’s actually a really good deal especially when you use it a lot - I’ve averaged 3.3h of music per day for the past 3 years, so I have no issues whatsoever paying for it
Back in the day I did a blind test between Google Music and Spotify and it wasn’t even close. Google was significantly better. They also let me upload lossless files which is a great bonus.
And you could shuffle play your whole library. RIP Google Music 😢
Check out InnerTune or ViMusic
When I got married I joined my wife’s Spotify family plan so I cancelled YouTube Red (it was around the time they were killing Google music)
After the first round of ads in YouTube I decided to keep my old subscription. They even let me keep my grandfathered plan since I only lapsed for a couple of day
Also I travel a lot and download videos to watch while on the plane and I believe that’s a premium feature
Pay for no ads, still get spied on
Ever since I unsubscribed, I get at least 1 pop up a week begging me to come back.
If you wanted to keep me, Google, you should have done a better job of remembering what “grandfathered plan” means.
what was your grandfathered plan? I’m still paying $10/mo
I was paying a family plan which was $15/month back when I subscribed during the Google Play Music days, with the guarantee from Google that my rate would not go up for being an early adopter.
About this time last year, they sent emails saying “Hey, so we know we told you your rate wouldn’t be going up, but…it’s going up to $23/month. But as a ‘we’re sorry’ gift, you can still pay the lower rate for two whole months after we increase it for everyone else first! See? You’re still our favorite.”
I switched to Spotify out of pure spite and pay less now for a Duo plan.
I’ll have to decide what ad free YouTube is worth to ms
It’s going up next month
reeeeeeeeee. I’m probably fine with $12/mo if that’s the new price. but if they raise it again in the next 5 years I’m out
I think it’s like fifteen, but I’m pretty sure I’ll be fine with it too.
that’s like a 50% price increase, we’ll see how I feel when it actually hits
Yeah, that’s how I am.
I doubt it will be a constant any more though.
If you use ReVanced, NewPipe or FreeTube you won’t get these pop ups :)
I mean, for $2.50 a month… sure, why not?
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 recently signed up for YT premium. Don’t get me wrong, I still used ad blockers and ReVanced like a mf, but considered it only fair seeing how much YT and music I have streamed.
I have the official YouTube app on my phone and when I’m busy doing dishes or mopping the floor, I open it on autoplay and let it load its precious ads, so Google can be happy.
