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It's literally the only subscription I think is worth having. But I get it, you do you!
I know it’s irrational but at this point if I bought premium I would feel like I’ve been bullied into it.
It would feel less sour if they didn’t lock other features like background play into premium, for me that’s too much of a dark pattern to support.
Honestly, I couldn't give tuppenny fuck about background play, or any of the other shit they bundle in. I literally just want to be able to watch YT on my Apple TV without having to suffer through unending adverts, but I'm not prepared to pay those ratfucking shit heads £20+ for the family plan just to be able to do that.
I was happy as shit using my Ukrainian YT Premium account, paying £4 a month to watch videos. It was great. Never used YT Music because I didn't fucking want to, never had videos playing in the background because I didn't fucking need to. Then they were all like "Errr, we don't think you're in Ukraine so you have to pay us more". And fuck that noise.
So now I watch the odd video on my laptop on Freetube and have been researching how to run the thing that automatically downloads my subs and adds them to Plex. I'm a dumb shit though, so can't figure it out.
I didn't even think about adding yt stuff to Plex. Thanks for mentioning it, I'll go into that rabbit hole now
If you can figure out the automation then you're a better person than I.
I've installed the thing on my old Linux MacBook, but I'm fucked if I can figure out how to actually get it to work.
Well I've seen how people have shared the way YouTube have changed their tactics over time and I don't feel like I can blame you for feeling that way.
I got my subscription back when it was named YouTube Red. Like, as soon as it became available in my country. I just always saw it as a good deal, and I haven't really had to see any of that shit personally. I do think the way they're marketing it these days seems to be very annoying though.
I get that. I've had it since it came out so I've missed out on the bullying.
You can absolutely "ad me" the hell away from your product.
The few times that I've used YouTube at work I know I wouldn't be watching YouTube at all if it wasn't for premium.
I do completely live life to avoid ads as much as possible.
Picture in picture works fine without premium which is funny. (At least on GrapheneOS)
95% of the time I spend on YouTube (when not on holiday) is on PC so they can't really block background play for me.
What are the features that brought you over? I had it before, but YouTube music was too lackluster for me (polish, sound quality, ease of searching) and for the YouTube part I use van Ed on mobile and ublock
I like that creators still get some compensation while I get to not think about ads.
That's a good reason.
How much do creators get?
Quite a bit. For your subscription YouTube will take 45%. The other 55% are split among other creators by watch time of the subscriber. For what it’s worth, the creators I watch love that system and benefit from it quite a bit. It’s more consistent and safer than ad revenue.
I'm not sure of the exact numbers, but I remember recently listening to a podcast or something where they mentioned that premium users' views are worth a little bit more than ad watchers on average. I'm assuming that's because there's no third party advertiser that needs a cut.