YT has literally become my cable. I listen to music, watch movies, documentaries, stand up comedy, news, sports… and cat videos, obviously.
To me it’s just worth it to pay a bit of money each month and have the whole thing just available to me.
I feel like if you were to put a money value on all the complaining, stomping of feet and trying to side-step the ads I’ve seen over the last several years, you’d probably find it’s actually less to just pay and enjoy it.
If there was a cheaper option to just remove ads, I’d consider paying for Premium. I’m not interested in YouTube Music or whatever else comes with Premium, I just want no ads. To me, the price of Premium isn’t worth what I would use it for.
I agree if they charged around half price of Netflix I would be more interested.
And the part with supporting the creators. I don’t trust Google to give more than pennies to them regardless if I pay or not, I use other ways to support the ones I follow.
You’re paying for premium, but you’re not paying it to people producing the content you enjoy. You’re paying it to a middle man parasite. Content creators get a tiny fraction of your money.
Paying because they made it deliberately difficult to use without paying is akin to giving the bully your lunch money because it’s better “money value” than standing up for yourself. That’s not something I can do without losing respect for myself.
And my “trying to side step the ads” has so far taken a total of 30 seconds - installing uBlock origin, which I would have done anyway.
Besides, to use premium you need to be logged in. Being logged in Google outside of a contained environment is idiotic if you have a shred of respect for your own privacy.
You know that this parasite in the first place enables creators to make a living? Youtube also has the best revenue split between it and the creators.
They’re storing exabytes of data for you, watchable at any time, in any resolution you’d like.
Google has been running Youtube at a loss for a long time and ads are not going to cover the costs. They need paying users. 12.99$ a month for more videos than Netflix, Amazon Prime etc… , unlimited music streaming and even giving your favorite creators more money (they get more revenue from premium members than from free “ad-viewing” members) is not a lot to ask for.
Stop your Spotify or Netflix or Hulu or Sky subscription and get youtube premium.
It’s the principle of the matter to me. Google became the multibillion dollar corporation it is by selling my data, your data, everyones data. To then come around and demand I pay to continue using their service the way I have for over a decade? But also still continue selling our data? Nah, fuck that. When they cut me in a percentage on the data selling business, maybe then I’d consider premium.
Given that we are in the piracy subreddit, you can change your Google account to Argentina or similar and pay Argentinian prices for premium. I’m from Europe and I pay 2€ for a family subscription for 5 people.
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Probably get shit for this, but…
I just pay for Premium.
YT has literally become my cable. I listen to music, watch movies, documentaries, stand up comedy, news, sports… and cat videos, obviously.
To me it’s just worth it to pay a bit of money each month and have the whole thing just available to me.
I feel like if you were to put a money value on all the complaining, stomping of feet and trying to side-step the ads I’ve seen over the last several years, you’d probably find it’s actually less to just pay and enjoy it.
Just my opinion, of course…
If there was a cheaper option to just remove ads, I’d consider paying for Premium. I’m not interested in YouTube Music or whatever else comes with Premium, I just want no ads. To me, the price of Premium isn’t worth what I would use it for.
I agree if they charged around half price of Netflix I would be more interested.
And the part with supporting the creators. I don’t trust Google to give more than pennies to them regardless if I pay or not, I use other ways to support the ones I follow.
You’re paying for premium, but you’re not paying it to people producing the content you enjoy. You’re paying it to a middle man parasite. Content creators get a tiny fraction of your money.
Paying because they made it deliberately difficult to use without paying is akin to giving the bully your lunch money because it’s better “money value” than standing up for yourself. That’s not something I can do without losing respect for myself.
And my “trying to side step the ads” has so far taken a total of 30 seconds - installing uBlock origin, which I would have done anyway.
Besides, to use premium you need to be logged in. Being logged in Google outside of a contained environment is idiotic if you have a shred of respect for your own privacy.
You know that this parasite in the first place enables creators to make a living? Youtube also has the best revenue split between it and the creators. They’re storing exabytes of data for you, watchable at any time, in any resolution you’d like. Google has been running Youtube at a loss for a long time and ads are not going to cover the costs. They need paying users. 12.99$ a month for more videos than Netflix, Amazon Prime etc… , unlimited music streaming and even giving your favorite creators more money (they get more revenue from premium members than from free “ad-viewing” members) is not a lot to ask for. Stop your Spotify or Netflix or Hulu or Sky subscription and get youtube premium.
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@whatsarefoogee
what forum do you think you are posting on lmao
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@whatsarefoogee
back in my day “pay the artists, fuck the platforms” was the motto
It’s the principle of the matter to me. Google became the multibillion dollar corporation it is by selling my data, your data, everyones data. To then come around and demand I pay to continue using their service the way I have for over a decade? But also still continue selling our data? Nah, fuck that. When they cut me in a percentage on the data selling business, maybe then I’d consider premium.
Given that we are in the piracy subreddit, you can change your Google account to Argentina or similar and pay Argentinian prices for premium. I’m from Europe and I pay 2€ for a family subscription for 5 people.
I pay for Indian Youtube Premium with Revolut
How’d you manage to get the pricing? VPN?
VPN to India, Revolut Rupee “account”, virtual debit card and an Indian street name generator