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Unpopular opinion: I like paying for YouTube Premium to get rid of ads and still make it possible for creators and YouTube to get paid and survive an keep offering me entertainment.
In addition you also get YouTube Music so no need to pay for Spotify. It might not have as good features but I listen to music specifically so I only search for what I want to listen to and don't want any algorithms anyway.
I pay for nebula, which is significantly cheaper and has a lot of creators that I am interested in supporting, plus extra content from them.
I use Nebula too. It's pretty good. There is a good handful of creators I watched on YouTube on there for me to have enough to put on easily whilst cooking dinner for example but not endless amounts where I can waste an entire evening mindlessly watching nonsense.
My main gripe with it at the moment is that there doesn't seem to be a way to "hide" or "block" certain creators and I would quite like to hide TLDR News from my feed. I'm sure they make great content but I know I won't watch it since I personally try to avoid news as much as I can.
You can subscribe to the channels you are interested in and see just them in the library tab, but yeah I can see that hiding things from the videos tab would be nice.
Small question about Nebula, am I right in thinking that it's mostly music-centered? Context, I barely use YouTube for music, but rather for documentaries and game stream edits.
It's mostly edutainment type content.