The issue is they have realized that ad-revenue is a dead
end in the long term so they are trying to make the
expeirence so misserable you end up paying for premium.
Then, once you paid for premium, they start shoving ads up
your ass anyway.
Premium still pushes ads? I did not know that.
But still, many streaming platforms sold themselves as the premium
option you pay to get rid of the ads, and eventually started
including ads in their paid subscriptions anyway.
So, frankly, the wise thing to do is to skip paying them and just
go straight for good adblockers. Specially for youtube, because
their plan is clearly to make the free experience so pityful,
painful and misserable you end up paying. It is extortion,
blackmail, creating a problem in order to sell you their solution.
So fuck them.
i think youtube has tried to get me to do a premium trial like 1000x.
some people say it's good for playing music.
one thing i just noticed is i'm no longer able to increase the speeds of some videos. i think this is because i'm not youtube plus or whatever.
i'm a big fan of watching youtube vids at a faster rate.
now i think it's because i have an adblocker chrome extension.
i think youtube has tried to get me to do a premium trial like 1000x. some people say it's good for playing music.
I've had YouTube Premium for a little while. I do think it's good for music, though I also like to browse & watch videos on YouTube sometimes, and it's nice to not have them interrupted with ads.
Nightfox
I find running a local Youtube frontend is much more convenient than paying. If you are on Android you can just install NewPipe and use that instead of the Youtube application. It is every bit as good and it is free, with the bonus point of having integration with other platforms (such as Bandcamp) as well.
But I also think not paying Youtube a dime is a matter of principle. Paying them is yielding to blackmail. They are selling you a solution to a problem they created, and on top of that their solution has plenty of technical limitations using an adblocking frontend does not suffer.
Interesting.. I hadn't heard of that. Often though, I watch YouTube on my Roku TV or Nvidia Shield Pro device, and it looks like NewPipe is not available for either of those.
What is the problem that they created? They need to make revenue somehow, either by selling (and showing ads) or charing users directly. I'm not sure what "problem" there is there..
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