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I know this is an incredibly unpopular take on Lemmy, but YT Premium is the best value subscription on the web by my reckoning. I watch an absolute fuck ton of content on YT, and I listen to an absolute fuck ton of music on YT music. And my partner does too.
If you don't use YT enough to justify the cost of the sub, I understand being frustrated with the ads but it's a free service. I can't imagine the amount of data that YT serves daily to free users.
Yeah I'm with you on this, I actually only got it for YouTube music — which really is like "here you can play any song from the history of humanity and also yt video audios." Well actually what happened is I was using Google Music and then the assholes shut it down and merged it into YT Music which is now roughly on par. I was pissed, but user retained
But I have been enjoying the fact that my subscription goes towards paying the ppl I watch, and I like that I'm unaffected by YT's server side ads concept (which I've always wondered why they don't do, I think it makes CDNs too hard to optimize while stitching ads directly into videos)
Well they’ve successfully extorted you.
Most of us use ad blockers.
Extorted? Why are you so dramatic? It's a service I'm happy to pay for.
I use ad blockers too. But I also don't mind paying for a good service. The cost of the service is worth it to me for the conveniences it offers. If I didn't feel that way, I wouldn't pay for it, but I also wouldn't be complaining about something I'm not paying for.
Yeah if you enjoy some kinds of things that are only with it and it’s like more content there is nothing extortion about it. You kinda implied you pay for it so as to not see ads. My bad.
Honestly though I personally don’t think any of this stuff is worth paying for but I’m not typical. My wife and I pay for Az prime for the deliveries alone but we get tons of extra stuff with it such as streaming tv, grubhub+ and a few other things like hbo max and peacock I think.
We also pay for Netflix. With all that, I still often find I search for something and either nobody has it or Az has it but you have to pay extra.
I torrent everything I want and fuck the lot of them. We’re already paying them as it is. But then that’s how I’ve been doing most tv and movies since like early 2000s.
We pay Prime for the delivery options, and we buy a lot from Amazon. LOL, I even have Prime integrated on my Kodi server but my instinct is to pirate it first.
I also pay Prime for the delivery (it's a cheap annual payment around these parts).
I also still torrent Prime shows, not out of instinct, but because it's more convenient and less of a hassle, I get them in higher quality, and I can archive them for later.
Yeah, one day something is on a streaming service, the next day they’ve removed it. I always pir8.
I mean… pirating gives you the content saved on your own system, in the format you’ve chosen from those available, on your own system that’s not subject to pruning at their whims. My wife uses the prime video and Netflix because it’s easier for her, as I have not yet setup anything like Plex yet. I just use a pc connected to the TV, which is more complicated for her. But I’m going to eventually get something setup on Linux and a media center system like Plex or more likely something simpler.
Sir! This is lemmy. You go with the hivemind or die in a fire.
"I pay for a thing because it's worth it to me and here's why."
(OK, I'd like to hear your take...)
"Idiot! Capitalist apologist!"
Or YouTube vanced/revanced for mobile
There are many many options indeed.
My problem with it is that it reinforces toxic monopoly, and I don't even know how much money goes to the creators.
Also they raised price multiple times lately
I'm the same regarding Spotify. Only service I pay for, but I'm happy to do so for now. Not even a big music listener, but it's damned nice to hear anything I want, anywhere I want, for a small fee.
My most frequent use case is off in the boondocks. I can download a dozen playlists to my phone and play them all offline.
And this is coming from a guy that used to download 20 song fragments off Usenet and compile them to get a single MP3. Also, I still steal all my video content.
Same. I originally got it for YT music. I don't listen to as much music as I used to without a commute anymore, but my wife and I watch a ton of YouTube. And it's mildly more difficult to block ads on the Roku too. I know pi holes exist, but my wife plays those freemium games that give you currency for watching ads and blocking all ads will break shit for her and then I have to fix it. Someone will tell me there's an easy solve I'm sure, but honestly the subscription is just way easier and I really don't mind paying. $16/mo for a family plan is 100% worth it to just not deal with all of that.
I disagree on the value part. It's more expensive than most other streaming aervices. If it was less than $10/mo I would sign up in a heartbeat
I thought it was $9.99/mo. What the hell are they charging for it?
$14/mo 🙃