Somehow paying for Netflix is fine but god forbid I want to watch a 10 hour loop of the DS9 intro without ads.

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    I think most people are angry with YouTube premium because it’s a service that doesn’t give you anything. It’s a service where they stop annoying you. But it doesn’t unlock anything new that you didn’t have before, doesn’t give you access to content or data you don’t have access to, it doesn’t improve the service. It just removes the annoyances they put there deliberately. So people are a little angry about it

    It’s a protection racket, for your attention and time.

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      The fact that they made it worse so they could lock what we had behind a paywall is what permanently killed YouTube for me. I will bend over backwards to make sure they never receive a penny at this point. They could have added or improved features but they just made everything shitty instead lol screw them.

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        Yeah I need youtube premium in order to enable background play on the official app. This is ridiculous, especially on a mobile operating system that made fun of the competition because it didnt have true multitasking. Ever since then it’s kinda been it for me. Like I cant multitask on my computer device because you want me to pay a subscription? No thanks.

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      It’s a protection racket, for your attention and time.

      It is, but it is only between the free and paid versions. I can’t expect a service to exist for my use without some form of compensation. I’d rather pay with money than time.

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      it doesn’t improve the service.

      Doesn’t it do exactly that? It removes the ads whoch makes it way better.

      But it doesn’t unlock anything new that you didn’t have before

      It does give you access to higher quality streaming though, offline play, background play, video queue, picture in picture and youtube music premium. Do you even know what you are talking about?

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      You’d have a much stronger point if all the following were free: bandwidth, server farms, developers, support staff.

      Since they aren’t, something needs to pay for those. I’m paying to not see that something.

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      There was some original content, there is offline play, ad removal, however they should allow premium to skip sponsor ads too if you ask me.

      I thought it was a decent deal for $15/mo for family of 3 using it for music and yt. $23 is pushing it.

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      It includes youtube music. And creators you watch get more money than if you watched using the ad supported version.

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        • You also get to play video with a screen off on mobile

        • You also get to download for offline viewing

        • You also support the creators of the videos, not just google.

        • AND FFS YOU DONT GET ADS.

        Using adblock isnt some innate human right. They are well within their rights to block adblock.

        You get almost the whole worlds information for free in video form. You can be entertained or use it as a teaching tool. It is the best place at this point for product demos and reviews. It is a crazy wealth of information and infrastructure that everyone takes advantage of and somehow just expect to be free. If Google cancells it because it is not profitable, i would bet the efficiency of the entire human race takes a significant nose dive. It also probably runs one of the highest sets of data storage and encoding on the planet.