Why not pay for Youtube Premium? We're often talking about how we would gladly pay to keep a sustainable product going on but people are outraged that a _free_ service is increasing monetization through ads.
I think Youtube is great, it's where I find a lot of content, I use it a lot and not seeing ads makes a huge difference. Plus, Youtube Music is great value for the price.
I used to pay for YouTube premium. But I left and switched to adblocking after it kept getting worse (YouTube is one of the few sites that I use an adblocker on).
- YouTube Music is awful, not a halfway decent product to replace the good Play Music.
- Stopped sending emails for video uploads (I know, I'm weird)
- "Premier" videos started to be shown in the RSS feeds. So now I am notified of stuff I can't even watch yet.
- Half the time videos just play at 360p even though I have never had a second of buffering on my 500Mpbs connection.
I think there were a couple of other things that were bugging me. But when they dropped the email notifications and the RSS feeds were terrible it was the last straw for me.
I would gladly pay if I felt that they were providing a good service and it was getting better.
> Half the time videos just play at 360p even though I have never had a second of buffering on my 500Mpbs connection.
Weird. I have a 50Mbps connection and get 1080p minimum on everything I watch. I like to use YT Music for discovery but not a full listening experience. Over all, YTP has really improved content discovery for me. Ad free makes it easy to find out which videos are BS.
I'm 99% sure it isn't my ISP. I get a very good connection to everything consistently including Google services. And switching to 4k works nearly instantly and never has hiccups.
For some reason their detection algorithm is bugged out.
I have a hard time justifying the price. It costs as much as Netflix, Crave, Hulu, etc.
These are platforms selling super polished content from professional production teams. Sure some of the content on YouTube meets that standard but most doesn’t.
I’m not interested in a bundled music service. I use Spotify and don’t wish to switch.
As a YouTube Premium subscriber - I still think this move is janky as hell. If my views weren’t worth more to the channels I care about (last I heard, a “red” subscriber is worth an order of magnitude or more than ad view), I’d be out of there out of a sheer distaste for Google’s actions.
I think Youtube is great, it's where I find a lot of content, I use it a lot and not seeing ads makes a huge difference. Plus, Youtube Music is great value for the price.