I considered switching from the Spotify family plan to YouTube premium’s, but it’s like $10 more and that’s above my budget.
Comment on Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish
flossdaily@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I use YouTube for tutorials, education, and entertainment all the time. And YouTube music is how I listen to all my music.
I’ve been paying the three YouTube premium version for my family since day one.
Recently they took away my grandfathered-in pricing. It really costs me a ton of money.
But I remember that I’m keeping ads of my screens, my parents’ screens, and my kids screens… And we all use YouTube music all the time… So…
Yeah, a lot of money, but honestly, probably the best subscription I have.
I could never go back to ads.
FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 months ago
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 11 months ago
YT Premium is pretty much a scam imo, what it does can be achieved with free tools.
jettrscga@lemmy.world 11 months ago
When you put it like that… That’s like saying stores are a scam because you could just take the products for free.
laylawashere44@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Yeah except y’know YouTube servers cost money and watching through Invidious doesn’t actually pay either YouTube or the creators. Like I don’t want to shill for a corp but on the other hand mass hosting video for free and letting anyone watch is a business model that can only work at YouTubers scale and nothing can replace YouTube because any service that tries will run out of money in a week. Seriously video hosting is literally the most expensive thing to do on the internet.
HC4L@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So is paying for car repair or a builder when a lot of times you can do it yourself and save money. In this case, when the whole familiy is involved and also taking into account that YT Premium also accounts for my work laptop and my phone I can easily understand why OP chooses to pay for YT Premium instead of more reasons to be the family helpdesk…