YouTube Premium

“Youtube Premium is a pretty good system. I pay $16/mo, and 55% of that gets distributed to creators based on my watch time.”

“no other subscription - software or otherwise - comes close to providing the real-world value that yt premium does for that little money”

“Youtube premium also works on my phone, Chromecast, and importantly, all of my wife's devices, all without needing to fuss with anything.”

“there's so much more value to YT premium (including YT music) that goes beyond merely blocking ads”

“One of the best products ever created, and they deserve the dough for serving me all the gigabytes.”

“which I think is my most bang for buck subscription based on the amount of time I spend watching it”

“youtube premium exists because I dont want to waste my precious time on stuff I dont want to see”

“I canceled almost all streaming services this year and kept YouTube Premium, and honestly it's the best decision I've ever made.”

“They make it slightly easier to find the end of a sponsor segment, while still requiring me to manually interact with the video.”

“I pay for youtube so I don't have to watch ads, but then youtube creators at some point all decided to jump on the bandwagon of interleaving ads”

“I have premium because of Google Music (although the official app is now so bad I use Metrolist).”

“I can mix my own music library with stuff from Youtube Music seamlessly, which is impossible with non-piratical means.”

“When they bizarrely tried to merge the two products so that when I was interested in watching videos, all I got was music video recommendations”

“And that subscriptions screen has a row of all shorts across the top, and shorts trun up in searches and side bar related recommendations.”

“Revenue should be considered per user to artists they listened to per month. This is actually how YouTube Premium works.”

“I liked it better at 10 a month tbh. If they keep increasing the price like Amazon they need to offer more features to compensate.”

“YT music sounds poor to me. Even at lower quality (compared to rivals) that's a reason to keep YT premium.”

“I pay for bundled Google storage + Gemini and YouTube separately, it's still worth it, even without free months or whatever.”

“YouTube music, higher quality video, and the 'jump ahead' feature to skip portions of a video that others usually skip.”

“It requires the use of a google account and there is no way to even request opting out of the accompanying data harvesting.”

“with YT Premium (or adblockers) I can't think of a better platform currently for finding distraction free content focused on your interests”

“the premium membership fee, which includes YT Music, is more valuable than any of the other streaming services”

“Now I'm paying for Youtube (never thought I'd be doing that) and using the new(ish) jump ahead feature to skip in-video ad segments”

“I'm _paying_ for YouTube Premium. But heck. Do I hate the YouTube interface, it degraded far past usability.”

“YT Premium is my favorite monthly subscription - probably the highest value software that I pay for.”

“avoiding the friction of people deciding whether the marginal cost to read an article is worth it is an obvious win”

“it's $6 a month where I live and at that price it's easier than any faffing or arms race with Adblock”

“I still pay for premium because I want to support the channels I watch but don't want to watch their ads.”

“YouTube Premium is pretty good value if you're using it enough to care about recommendation hygiene”

“People were offended when Google launched YouTube Premium because it encroached on their right to "free" everything from Google.”

“If you don't care about music or background play, and all you want is to eliminate ads, YouTube Premium Lite is $8/month.”

“I do value watching unlimited youtube videos without ads, but if they're gonna add the ads back in, I'd easily stop paying”

“Youtube is prety much an uncontested monopoly serving as that middleground between tiktok shorts and high budget TV shows.”

“I'm not willing to pay $20 a month for watching like an hour or two of mediocre homemade content Google did not even produce.”

“your activity data (views, for how long, what topics, what times of the year, of the day, so on and so forth) is still collected”

“It seems like Premium should be all about optimizing for the experience the user wants, without the same dark patterns as the ad-supported site.”

“YouTube Premium would offer you an API so that you can watch your stuff without being bothered by their horrible official front-end”

“Until that point I'll continue to pay. Content creators tell me they get more income from premium subscribers too so win-win.”

“YouTube is one of the better ones -- sort of -- in that you can simply pay with a very small amount of money rather than by wasting a ton of time on ads.”

“it's the correct solution to the problem of "pay content creators and don't destroy my experience"”