Fucking lazy sheep. Yeah, give poor Google your money and help them perpetuate the ever corrupting monopoly that is eroding and censoring our entire internet.
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I do have YouTube Premium, because between the ad-free movies and TV shows and the music, the family sharing option was cheaper than Spotify and a couple of streaming services we gave up, and the few new content creators I do watch get paid more. But if they keep raising the price, I'll look for something else.
For me, almost all the media I consume is YouTube so I’m fine paying up to a point but if it goes past 20 without a heap more features I’m out. I was already shocked they took away “continue watching” from normal users.
You know that’s not pure profit, right?
Besides their hardware, development and operational costs, which are substantial, they split that fee with creators.
I might even consider it out if they weren't selling me music as well and if there was a family option (in my country). And no, I wouldn't consider VPN as I won't do extra work to be able to pay google.
Yeah, as someone who gets good mileage with YouTube Premium, I wish they offered a version just for ads without music. YouTube music sucks hard, but I can't justify paying for another music app on top of it.
marketing tactics to get even more to subscribe, ala "x amount of people got it so it must be good".
Yet it feels like I got better things to spend it on, as I don't watch much anymore due to algorithm changes making me miss the prior new music uploads and or newer channels to discover.
Every refresh contains the same or prior channels watched with the same content shuffled or worse, suggest old dated watched videos.
Nebula is pretty cool too. It's $5/month, but it's run by indie creators, not some big tech company and you get access to some really great content. And you can use Grayjay to access it.
I enjoy so many cooking shows, tech nerds, and drag queens that post videos that make me happy on YouTube.
I watch on my tv primarily
I’m so so so happy to support the individual creators who pour their life and so much love into their work, premium pays them more per view than ad-supported views.
I share with some friends, and they share their logins with me. Overall, my monthly cost for video services is low.
Because YouTube is a shit company that fleeces all of the content creators they’d be nowhere without- while simultaneously giving the middle finger to everyone that uses their service.
Yet amid all the whining and complaining about seemingly ALL of their business practices on a daily basis- we apparently have 100 million people willing to give them MORE money so they can continue abusing everyone that so much as even looks in their general direction.
They really do. The only place I hear anyone talk about it is LTT and only during the wan show. It's a major reason I have premium despite being the type of person who uses GrapheneOS.
Agreed on both claims.
His opinions and arguments may be tainted the incifent but I geniunly believe that being the case.
Though I believe I have heard about the extra cut elsewhere on some YT channels as well.
I want the creators I watch on YouTube to continue to get paid, both from YouTube and their sponsors. My contributions through premium are sliver of what they see, but if everyone stopped supporting them in that way, the total would be zero.
I back some of them on Patreon where I can, but it's not economically feasible for me to back them all in such a way.
Tell me more please? What hoops did you jump through to get it at this price? I can't imagine it's as simple as VPNing to a country where it's cheaper.
That is exactly what I did. If you Google it, you can find a list of the cheapest countries. Some of the cheaper options didn’t work for some reason related to how payments are processed in those places but I found one that went worked on the 3rd or 4th try.
If I remember right, I was able to use Ukraine. I think Argentina is the cheapest around $1 a month.
I’m happy to pay for product and services I use at reasonable prices. It makes me angry that they can offer this service for much less and still make.
I just used my regular credit card. But I know you can get a prepaid card for international purposes like this. I don’t remember what that’s called. I think it’s green, lol.
There’s a lot whole subreddit about getting YouTube premium for affordable prices with good info.
