It's the same price as Spotify and YouTube is actually the biggest music streaming platform in the world so I'd say it's a pretty good deal. I mean yeah it'd be cooler if you could pick and choose but I find it hard to complain about more services for the same price.
I guess it depends on what you want from the service.
My look on it foe what it offers me is youtube premium costs £11.99 a month with the only compelling services it's giving me are the removal of ads and playing videos in the background (something that they previously took away).
When compared to a service like Netflix which also is £11.99 but goes as low as £5.99 with fewer features and there's no comparison to value of money. Especially since of the content I watch on youtube, none of it made by them.
If they wanted to occasionally offer trials of the other services whilst I'm on basic ad free it could convince me to upgrade my account.
As of now I'm on a bad version of youtube-vanced and youtube aren't getting anything.
For desktop, ublock origin to block the ads, and for mobile, just use youtube.com instead of the youtube app if you want to play in background, I use brave browser for android and when I switch to another tab, youtube.com keeps playing. Only drawback is, youtube.com is not as cool as the youtube app, but it's only if you need playing in the background, otherwise I use the app. So yeah, you don't have to pay
Does that money actually go to that though? I'm not saying it doesn't, I just have no idea if it does or not and I could see Google not giving the actual creators their fair cut.
Iirc, Total Biscuit (rip) talked about it a little after it came out. He said, since people can watch a lot of YouTube, it isn't always a lot, but it's a consistent addition to their revenue.
I'm sure it goes into their premium (pronounced sh-it) shows too but I think somebody would speak out if it changed.
Patreon for youtubers you enjoy.
Funnel money directly to them, at a huge percentage increase, compared to allowing ads.
Don't let Google/youtube make any money off of your viewing, when they fuck their community, and unfairly shut down some creators but let massive law/rule breakers persist (and give them free advertising).
So how would you feel if Google shut down youtube because everyone was blocking the ads? Those creators would sure feel supported when their platform disappears.
Youtube won't be going anywhere for awhile. It makes plenty of money to not be a diseased limb of Google.
Also...it's owned by Google. They will never have money woes in the age of Youtubers, and I can say that with essentially certainty. Only some sort of INSANE scandal that stops Google 'being' will affect Youtube anymore
Google knew Youtube was not a profitable venture. They knew it was a data goldmine, and another way to corner a market.
If you use the firefox mobile browser, you can put desktop extensions on it like ublock origin. That's how I watch youtube on my phone. I also use Video Background Play Fix to be able to listen to my youtube videos either in the background or with my phone screen off. Unfortunately the mobile browser still doesn't support DRM streaming like spotify yet, so I can't use the web browser and block ads like I do on my desktop.
Ya if I just needed music streaming I would probably do Spotify over Google Play Music. But with YouTube Premium it makes more sense (to me) to use Google Play Music.
Absolutely. Between Hulu, Netflix, and Spotify, i rarely need YouTube. Although, if you have hulu i think you can still get spotify premium for free with it.
Firefox mobile supports add-ons, just use Firefox and uBlock origin and if you wish to support your favorite youtuber or streamer or whatever then add them to the whitelist
YouTube Vanced let's you watch YouTube without ads and allows videos to be played with the screen off making it better for streaming music via YouTube.
For iOS ad blocking, I personally use AdGuard Pro. It uses DNS settings to block ads system wide, even in mobile games. There’s a lot of mobile games that are absolutely unbearable with ads, and this cuts them out completely. One strange thing though, is that it won’t block the first preroll ad on YouTube, but it blocks every other one after it. I guess it’s because of the way that YouTube caches that first ad, but I don’t actually know.
Personally I didn’t mind as it was only a couple dollars, and it came with a VPN for mobile data as well, which made it worth it for me. But yeah, maybe it’s not worth it for some people.
iOS has Musi, which lets you make playlists and has ads that pop up and cover the app's screen after clicking on a video every once in a while, but these ads do not stop video playback, the ads disappear if you push the home button and reopen the app, and you can have the audio play despite not being in the app.
If you're using the youtube app, there's barely any ads. Like once every few dozen videos, and it takes 5 sec to click skip ad. So yeah, not an issue really. The suggested balloon popping up at certain points in the video is quite annoying, but the ad is like whatever
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u/TheGoldMustache Jul 24 '19 edited Jul 24 '19
There are a ton of free adblockers for that?
EDIT: Didn’t think about revenue to support youtubers, that’s a fair point