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Honestly, I pay for YouTube Premium because I find value in it. The price is reasonable for where I live, and it's my main source of entertainment. I don't like watching movies/TV shows that much so YouTube is my jam. So the convenience of being able to download videos, ad-free viewing, picture-in-picture, background playback etc. is totally worth it for me. I know if I dig hard enough and use an Android phone/tablet I can get those features without having to pay, but I don't like Android and again, the features are worth the small price.
For me, YouTube Premium and Spotify broke piracy because they're more convenient than pirating.
Also a premium subscriber, and I it's definitely worth it to me (especially since it comes with music and I've got the grandfathered price)
The biggest problem I have with it isn't even a problem with premium. It's that it doesn't deal with sponsor spots in videos.
Try Sponsorblock. Also available through ReVanced on Android.
I'm using it, it still annoys me that I have to, though.
Same here but YT Music instead of Spotify since Spotify ruined their app. It's a nice package and I like their recommendation engine better.
Same for me. Premium is worth it for the ease of use (especially because I watch a lot of YT on my AppleTV). I don’t want to have to worry about making sure all these ad blockers are set up right, and I also am ok with paying since I believe creators get something from that, right?
When I visit a friend and they pull up YT only for it to have three ads or whatever, I die inside. How do those people live?
My issue with premium is that they took features away from the old youtube app and then resold them as a part of premium.
It's hard to see the value in premium when half of the features are things they took away from us. It feels like a betrayal, and so i use revanced.
I had google play music. Then it became youtube music with youtube premium. They just raised the price on my family subscription by 40%. I considered leaving for spotify, where at least I'd be able to share playlists with all my friends, or apple music because I'm an iphone person now, I guess.
But the ad-free, full-featured youtube is the thing that is keeping me. I won't save significant money by switching, but I'll be giving up something I really get some value out of.
If they change their pricing so that it is significantly cheaper for me to use another service and premium youtube isn't just a bonus I get for paying for my music, I may reconsider. But for now, the package is unbeatable even at the new higher price.
I support software I like and unfortunately I like the videos on YouTube. I wish that someone would come and provide a better experience because youtube management sucks.
I'm slowly moving to alternatives like odysee as the channels I like enable it.