I actually find the value to be worth YouTube premium. YouTube music works crazy good on my cars wifi and infotainment, and i get 4 users that i can add to my family plan so now me and my wife and kids gets all ad free on any device. And i watch now YouTube that i do Netflix, and netflix cost almost the same for only 1 login.
Personally i support any company that provides me an option for AD free service. I can’t stand companies that charge me, and show ads.
I don’t double-pay. Until Google comes out saying that Premium halts not just ads but also data harvesting, I’m not interested. I’m already paying Google in data.
been a happy premium subscriber for like 12 years now. I don’t understand why ppl think a service that involves tons of server infrastructure to run should be free… just feels like immature entitlement
I think people have two problems with YouTube. 1 it is Google and therefore monumentally evil. 2 they started the service as free then enshittified it slowly. It’s not like they just added a few ads then left it alone. They have relentlessly added more and more ads to the point it’s disgusting. I think if it was always one way or the other, it would get far less hate. Me personally, I probably need about 30 minutes of YouTube per month. I’m damned sure not paying for that and due to said ads getting worse and worse, I’m using an ad blocker for sure.
I mean, you might be older than me but I doubt it :)
I remember when YouTube was cool, before Google bought it. But at this point that was a relatively short time period. I know they bought it to make money and that’s not even necessarily the worst thing. My main issue with Google regarding YouTube is the slow enshittification of it. I remember when there was either no ad, or a 5-7 second single ad for a whole video. Those days are way gone though.
I switched over to NewPipe a couple weeks back after consciously tolerating ads on the official mobile apps for years. This is what pushed me over the edge:
I was watching a 30 minute video a friend had shared and a (skippable) 4 minute ad played probably a little before the 10 minute mark. It was a variant of an ad I had seen before, but I’ve been interested in the product, so I let the ad play all the way through. But now for the rest of the video, all the ads I was getting were several minutes long and all were unskippable. The interval of actual video content became shorter as well, so I was effectively watching more ads than the content I was trying to view. I decided to finish the video just to experience how ridiculous it was. Immediately installed NewPipe afterwards.
I have a hard time thinking it wasn’t a coincidence that the ads became unskippable partway through the video after watching one ad all the way through. Obviously, I can’t say that for sure. But I sure as hell am not tolerating that ratio of ads to content. I feel guilty for not sending ad view pennies to the creators I enjoy, but this YouTube “experiment” made the platform unusable for me.
Wow, that sounds pretty ridiculous. I rarely have seen it for years with ads but every time I have, it’s been pretty disgusting. I have also had the feeling I was watching more ads than content, which is very far overboard.
I actually find the value to be worth YouTube premium. YouTube music works crazy good on my cars wifi and infotainment, and i get 4 users that i can add to my family plan so now me and my wife and kids gets all ad free on any device. And i watch now YouTube that i do Netflix, and netflix cost almost the same for only 1 login.
Personally i support any company that provides me an option for AD free service. I can’t stand companies that charge me, and show ads.
I don’t double-pay. Until Google comes out saying that Premium halts not just ads but also data harvesting, I’m not interested. I’m already paying Google in data.
seconded
been a happy premium subscriber for like 12 years now. I don’t understand why ppl think a service that involves tons of server infrastructure to run should be free… just feels like immature entitlement
I think people have two problems with YouTube. 1 it is Google and therefore monumentally evil. 2 they started the service as free then enshittified it slowly. It’s not like they just added a few ads then left it alone. They have relentlessly added more and more ads to the point it’s disgusting. I think if it was always one way or the other, it would get far less hate. Me personally, I probably need about 30 minutes of YouTube per month. I’m damned sure not paying for that and due to said ads getting worse and worse, I’m using an ad blocker for sure.
They didn’t start the service, they bought it with the long term plan of making it profitable.
I mean, you might be older than me but I doubt it :)
I remember when YouTube was cool, before Google bought it. But at this point that was a relatively short time period. I know they bought it to make money and that’s not even necessarily the worst thing. My main issue with Google regarding YouTube is the slow enshittification of it. I remember when there was either no ad, or a 5-7 second single ad for a whole video. Those days are way gone though.
I switched over to NewPipe a couple weeks back after consciously tolerating ads on the official mobile apps for years. This is what pushed me over the edge:
I was watching a 30 minute video a friend had shared and a (skippable) 4 minute ad played probably a little before the 10 minute mark. It was a variant of an ad I had seen before, but I’ve been interested in the product, so I let the ad play all the way through. But now for the rest of the video, all the ads I was getting were several minutes long and all were unskippable. The interval of actual video content became shorter as well, so I was effectively watching more ads than the content I was trying to view. I decided to finish the video just to experience how ridiculous it was. Immediately installed NewPipe afterwards.
I have a hard time thinking it wasn’t a coincidence that the ads became unskippable partway through the video after watching one ad all the way through. Obviously, I can’t say that for sure. But I sure as hell am not tolerating that ratio of ads to content. I feel guilty for not sending ad view pennies to the creators I enjoy, but this YouTube “experiment” made the platform unusable for me.
Wow, that sounds pretty ridiculous. I rarely have seen it for years with ads but every time I have, it’s been pretty disgusting. I have also had the feeling I was watching more ads than content, which is very far overboard.