• @Sami_Uso@lemmy.world
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    171 year ago

    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

    • BruceTwarzen
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      11 year ago

      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

    • @AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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      111 year ago

      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.

    • @Honytawk@lemmy.zip
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      81 year ago

      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

    • @revdrnegative@lemmy.world
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      71 year ago

      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…

      • @SecretSauces@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        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.

    • XIIIesq
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      51 year ago

      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?

    • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      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.

  • @TBi@lemmy.world
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    141 year ago

    I use premium. It’s great. We can’t have everything for free. Someone has to pay for it.

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      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.

      • @SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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        21 year ago

        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.

    • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      I’m fine with having a multi billion dollar company and idiots who support said company pay for my use of their infrastructure :)

  • @dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Ublock origin to skip ads that pay creators 0.000001 cents per view, spotify for $9.99 a month for all of the music/podcasts you can listen to on the go, and donate to patreon for your favorite creators. If you have 5 creators you truly love and want to support, $1 a month is generally the entry level patreon tier. And it’s more money for your creator than they would have earned if you watched their videos hundreds of times.

    That’s $15 per month to get everything that youtube premium offers for $25 a month, plus you don’t make Google richer in the process.

    • @BaldManGoomba@lemmy.world
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      31 year ago

      It costs $14 a month to get youtube premium for an individual and $23 a month for 6 people with a family that is like $4 a month per person

    • @Chriswild@lemmy.world
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      61 year ago

      I’m not going to pay for Spotify either. Music should be a federated platform where you can purchase music directly from the artist and not pay massive corporations like Spotify, Google, or Apple for the luxury of doing nothing.

      • @n0clue@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        I mean if GPM or Spotify weren’t garbage I’d pay a reasonable amount a month for one, supporting the artists is nice and all but it’s not why I don’t pay for these services.

        • @Kiosade@lemmy.ca
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          I fucking hate Spotify. I forgot why until I tried it again recently. I typed in a specific song, and it showed the song picture and everything … but then started playing a completely different song instead! If I wanted to play a different song, i would have typed that one instead!

          • @n0clue@lemmy.world
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            Google maps decided to take me to Sheetz instead of Wawa, tbf there wasn’t a Wawa nearby but it just started navigating instead of telling me that, I would accuse them of having a preference but it’s the reverse in the play store where if you search Sheetz the Wawa app comes up first as sponsored.

      • @AnAngryAlpaca@feddit.de
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        A federated plattform without capital would never get as big, because they dont have the resources to attract more customers via offline ads, apps and better product development.

        Just being the best or fairest platform is not enough to be successful.

  • @gmtom@lemmy.world
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    121 year ago

    Tons of people have premium because they just go along with whatever pointless consumerism they are told to.

  • @SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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    111 year ago

    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.

    • @Syntax@lemmy.world
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      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.

      • @dustyData@lemmy.world
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        81 year ago

        Well, guess what. Poor Google knew and should’ve thought about that before buying YouTube. Nobody forced them to.

      • @SuperSpruce@lemmy.zip
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        11 year ago

        They’ve been profitable since 2015. I’m fine with some ads on the videos, they need to make money somehow, and I really like how they do give YouTubers a majority of the revenue.

        However, many of their recent-ish decisions are incredibly greedy and disgusting, like what I mentioned previously, and the retroactive taking away your revenue if the system flags your video as demonetized after it already made some revenue.

        Plus, instead of adding useful features for viewers and creators, they spend that money on fEaTuReD cOnTeNt and oH lOoK wE cHaNgEd ThE uI (read: We pointlessly moved stuff around, removed features, and made the experience take 1.5x as much resources as before)

  • @LSNLDN@slrpnk.net
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    41 year ago

    I installed Altserver and uYou yesterday, great experience so far (the same without ads and with sponsorblock by default, no jailbreak, iOS)

  • @FrostKing@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • Jeze3D 64bit :n64:
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    @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.

    • @Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
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      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.

      • @HeyMrDeadMan@lemmy.world
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        101 year ago

        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!

    • mistrgamin
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      31 year ago

      Libretube and Innertune for me outclasses both of those without any subscription

    • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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      61 year ago

      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!

      • Jeze3D 64bit :n64:
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        @Anticorp it has all the high quality uploads of other music services plus songs that are uploaded by users that aren’t available elsewhere, but go off.

      • Vash63
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        161 year ago

        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?

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          21 year ago

          People upload poor quality songs to YouTube. Look up “song name lyrics” for an example. Those songs get mixed in with all the official songs when you’re listening on YouTube. Plus their interface just kinda sucks.

          • Vash63
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            61 year ago

            This thread is about YouTube music, not YouTube. You can’t see other people’s uploads on YouTube music, it’s only from the labels.

        • @Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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          I think anyone can upload to YouTube music, or at least it’s a lot easier than most platforms to get onto, so they have a point there.

          There is a recommendation algorithm though, so if whatever you upload is terrible, it won’t go anywhere.

        • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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          11 year ago

          People upload poor quality songs to YouTube. Look up “song name lyrics” for an example. Those songs get mixed in with all the official songs when you’re listening on YouTube. Plus their interface just kinda sucks.

          • @Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee
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            No, they don’t. There is a recommendation algorithm, and it doesn’t recommend low quality shite. Their algorithm is actually pretty good.

            • @Gabu@lemmy.world
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              21 year ago

              hahahahahaha

              Good joke, having “algorithm” and “good” in the same sentence when talking about Google shit.

                • @WldFyre@lemm.ee
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                  That person thinks we’d be happier if we were all back to being serfs, I’m gonna ignore their takes on music recommendation algorithms lol

      • But wait! When searching for your song you also get: 1) some girl in her basement playing a cover on piano, 2) some dude in his bedroom playing a cover on guitar, 3) some lonely divorcee’s ripped version where lyrics scroll across static images of sunsets, 4) some crappy handheld video taken from the back row of a shitty venue from 2009. What a bargain!

  • @Matriks404@lemmy.world
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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 (fuck these) from videos, but I use SponsorBlock for that.

  • Captain Aggravated
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    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.

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      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.

    • 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.