Comment on Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month

Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Chipthemonk@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I can’t stand watching ads. Ads waste my time. My time is valuable. I’ll pay for no ads.

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  • dingus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Adblockers, ReVanced, SmartTube, etc. No ads and no fee.

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    • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      New Pipe is opensource

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      • PhreakyByNature@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I have it but revanced is a much better experience overall. I also pay for Premium so I get downloads but if youtube included swipe controls for brightness and volume I wouldn’t need revanced. Though the skip segment stuff is good.

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  • vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t see any ads on YouTube and I didn’t have to pay them.

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    • Chipthemonk@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Does this work across platforms? iPad? iPhone? AppleTV?

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      • aidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Apple intentionally locks down their platform, so it’s harder to use any workarounds

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  • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So you pay to support a platform that treats the creators of the content you watch like garbage…

    I find that…. Weird. But you do you. No judgement intended.

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• WereCat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes. YT Premium costs me only 1€ more than Spotify so I use YT Music and also have no ads and can listen to videos with my screen off on my phone.

  But if they’ll increase price here too then I’ll just stick with NewPipe which I also have installed and no music app.

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  • MrFlamey@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I think listening to audio only (no video wasting bandwidth) with the screen off and Youtube Music seem like actually valuable things to have if you do a lot of driving. I don’t listen to Spotify at home, but when I was driving a lot I sure did.

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• Vatteck@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah it’s a good deal

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  • Pratai@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know if I could ever hate myself enough to do that.

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    • BurtReynoldsMustache@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s easy, you just have to ingest the entire boot like the above person.

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• shirro@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah, I really, really hate ads and it used to be a lot cheaper so I am sort of grand fathered in though I expect that won’t last. I could ad block but I would have to maintain it not only on my devices but other family members with a variety of apps, platforms, networks etc. It is easier to pay fuck off money. Bonus is that a dribble of the funds goes to creators I watch though realistically the best way to support creators is to fund them more directly if you can afford it.

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  • Voilyrioh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Agree, I pay for Youtube Premium too because I dont want ads nor using adblockers and want to support creators. A creator that I really like released a video (something like a year ago) showing his revenue and said that the most money per view he gets was surprisingly from YT Premium views.

    IMO, paying for Youtube is the most effective way to make it better or at least less ads dependent. Using a blocker just make YT more aggressive to people not using it, at the end of the day, YT need money to operate.

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