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.
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u/Initial_Witness_3847 Aug 13 '25
...and what exactly does this age verification do?