Hot take: this sucks, but YouTube premium is legit. I wish more platforms offered a paid, ad-free way to interact. I don’t feel like figuring out a way around ads but I’m not about to start watching them. So I pay a few bucks a month.
I’d be more willing to pay if it wasn’t $10/mo (annual cost) for a bunch of stuff I don’t care about. If they had a cheaper option that was just ad-free (maybe $5/mo?), I’d be down for that.
I also like what Kagi does with their duo plan for 2 users. Some kind of duo plan for YT premium would be nice as well, since I (and many others, I’m sure) don’t have a family of 6 people.
True. I actually got it as Google play music and it was bundled with YT premium and changed to YouTube music later. As a result of an early bonus, I pay $8/mo. For someone paying full price that doesn’t want the music, I can see why it wouldn’t seem worth it.
It’s simply a more honest model - you get content, they get money.
I would love to be able to pay for an ad-free experience for the various websites and services that I browse and use in a straightforward way instead of being leeched for ad-revenue
The thing is that first you pay in order to avoid ads, but ads will start creeping in on the paid version in no time. Some day you’ll find yourself paying and still seeing as many ads as they decide to push. The same has been done in other platforms. Cable TV didn’t have ads when I was a kid, “because it was paid”.
I don’t have any philosophical objection for paying to use a platform I enjoy, but in the case of youtube, they have been so deliberately detrimental to society in terms of platforming fascists that I feel bad about the prospect of paying them, even if much of the money is going to creators I do like who I’m actually watching
Same. I hate google, but YouTube pays content creators better than any other platform. And I am 100% on board with any service where I pay a monthly cost instead of being inundated with ads.
Yeah, I split a family plan with some mates and honestly it’s the way to go. Costs like $3pp a month and the benefit of ad free content, background play, offline, etc. is so worth it
Hot take: this sucks, but YouTube premium is legit. I wish more platforms offered a paid, ad-free way to interact. I don’t feel like figuring out a way around ads but I’m not about to start watching them. So I pay a few bucks a month.
I don’t mind paying for services I use to avoid my data being the payment (like Kagi or Protonmail).
But I don’t like the idea of paying Google AND having my data farmed.
I’d be more willing to pay if it wasn’t $10/mo (annual cost) for a bunch of stuff I don’t care about. If they had a cheaper option that was just ad-free (maybe $5/mo?), I’d be down for that.
I also like what Kagi does with their duo plan for 2 users. Some kind of duo plan for YT premium would be nice as well, since I (and many others, I’m sure) don’t have a family of 6 people.
True. I actually got it as Google play music and it was bundled with YT premium and changed to YouTube music later. As a result of an early bonus, I pay $8/mo. For someone paying full price that doesn’t want the music, I can see why it wouldn’t seem worth it.
It’s simply a more honest model - you get content, they get money.
I would love to be able to pay for an ad-free experience for the various websites and services that I browse and use in a straightforward way instead of being leeched for ad-revenue
I wouldn’t doubt paying a hundred per month to have an ad-free life.
no ads on tv or sports, no billboards, no ads on buses. it would be awesome
But they still collect your data, so not that straight forward.
The thing is that first you pay in order to avoid ads, but ads will start creeping in on the paid version in no time. Some day you’ll find yourself paying and still seeing as many ads as they decide to push. The same has been done in other platforms. Cable TV didn’t have ads when I was a kid, “because it was paid”.
The ever-growing greed of a publicly owned corp pursuing infinite-growth. Eurgh
Sigh, yeah. They’re collecting data either way, and will be sure to monetize because of the shitfest-blackhole-of-greed that are corporates, sigh.
I just would prefer that business model in an ideal world.
I don’t have any philosophical objection for paying to use a platform I enjoy, but in the case of youtube, they have been so deliberately detrimental to society in terms of platforming fascists that I feel bad about the prospect of paying them, even if much of the money is going to creators I do like who I’m actually watching
Same. I hate google, but YouTube pays content creators better than any other platform. And I am 100% on board with any service where I pay a monthly cost instead of being inundated with ads.
Yeah, I split a family plan with some mates and honestly it’s the way to go. Costs like $3pp a month and the benefit of ad free content, background play, offline, etc. is so worth it
Also the student version is so cheap and there is so much more content than anything really. YouTube music is awesome too.