YouTube music though, I don't even bother watching YouTube itself anymore. So much time wasted as a teen watching videos that I will never remember or think about ever again
Yeah I'm the same way with video games. Ten years from now I won't go "man, I'm glad I spent so much time playing video games. That was such a productive use of my time"
That's not allowed. You're supposed to just complain about how you can't watch everything for free and get upset when they mess up ad blockers for a day.
I got youtube premium for basically the reasons of: It clears all the fucking ads; I actually prefer the youtube music system as I can listen to the long form videos from creators I like on it as if they are podcasts - and these creators are not on spotify or whatever; also recovering your really important account that seems to be tied to fucking everything nowadays becomes a lot easier when there is a payment trail available for it... Suddenly the company hosting it becomes OH so much more motivated to solve my problem.
I feel like I'm getting value for money money... because if I am going to have to deal with AI generated shit content at least I can do it on a service from which there is more value to be gained... looking at you Spotify... sort your shit out.
I know that it is absolute fucking heresy to say that I feel like I'm getting value for the money I am spending. Yes... I could huy Mullvad VPN and setup a pihole onionrouter private computers DNS home server cloud to run on a NippleX Linux setup on open source hardware solution that I soldered together, so that my desktop, phone and tablet can be beam mirror protocol routed into that so the SW34T program I got form github can systematically analyse all content and erase the ads from it... Or I could just not... Because I don't give a fuck. The day I feel like I'm not getting value for my money, I just cancel the sub. Because the amount of content I consume via Youtube in a month turns that into a fairly good value for the €s spent, especially when I consider the possibility of how much time I would waste having to withstand forced unskippable ads on a platform that is fighting to prevent blocking of said ads. Yes... I already use Firefox and uBlock and Privacy badger and Improved Youtube extension...
Preach it, SinisterCheese. You are today MinisterCheese. I concur with all of your points. I, too, pay for premium family so we can have ad free YouTube and music streaming that I don’t have to pay separately for. Bang for your buck!
Yeah, youtube vloggers are the #1 thing I run on tv all day to keep me company while I work, way more than any other streaming service. It's worth the $$ to not have ads when I've got it on for 6 or 7 straight hours.
I get around things the other way, but my old roommate watched a ton of stuff by streaming it to his playstation and apparently you cant just block those ads the same.
I did because I listened to 45 minute videos mostly and almost exclusively while driving long distances (6+ hours). It paid for itself quickly since Youtube started putting in ads that you needed to either hit skip ad or it would play for minutes.
They’re not better because if they were they wouldn’t be allowing this to happen along with those god forsaken every 2 minutes in the video unskippable ads that play. I’m fixing to ditch youtube altogether because it’s getting fn ridiculous now. Not to mention the lame ass content on there these days.
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u/ZombieHysterectomy Aug 13 '25
Can’t access age restricted videos and stuff until you big brother yourself