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[–] ngwoo@lemmy.world 55 points 3 months ago (8 children)

If YouTube offered premium without music for a discounted price I'd probably be willing to pay for it. But I just want no ads, not a bunch of bundled stuff.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is exactly me.

I’ve been paying £5 a month by using a VPN to sign up for Premium from Ukraine. Been doing so for the past couple of years without complaint. Literally all I need from them is to fuck off the adverts. I have Apple Music for music and I’m happy with it.

Now they’ve rumbled us and will be cutting off our Premium next month.

I am fucked if I’m paying those ratfuckers £20 a month just so I can watch other people’s hard work without the adverts they force in. Fuck that noise.

So I’m now researching ways to get my subs onto Plex so I can carry on watching on my Apple TV.

[–] mitchty@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

I use this for my plex yet subscriptions https://ytdl-sub.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Note they will throttle ips so I recommend a vpn if you’re snagging huge channels.

[–] KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I get what you’re saying, but YouTube music is pretty much just a different front end for the normal site.

Sure, it does some filtering to attempt to be music only (though I’ve seen non music stuff sneak in before) but in the end, you get pretty much the same core experience if you open up the YouTube app and start “watching” a song (with premium for the background play capability).

I’d be willing to bet this is why they won’t go the route you’re talking about.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd prefer some kind of limited amount of viewing. I don't watch a ton of YT, so give me some kind of reasonable ad-free cap. I'm willing to pay to not see ads, but I don't watch enough to be worth their asking price.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I would rather micro transactions. Like just load up a dollar and get like 1000 minutes ad free...with the ability to turn off and save for later.

Yeah, I'm guessing an ad makes them at most a couple cents, and I'm totally willing to compensate them for not getting the ad revenue. I just don't like the current options: ads or tons of money per month for a service I don't use enough to justify.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Don’t think a dollar is going to give you anywheee near 1000 minutes of ad free video.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

It should. That's more than I would spend on things they are advertising

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 12 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Even then it doesn't have sponsorblock or a customisable UI like revanced does.

It's crazy how unofficial free is actually better than official paid.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

See, I don’t really mind the sponsored segments. Some creators actually have fun with their ad reads, like the Map Men or Colin Furze. But if it’s boring I just tap the forward button on my Apple TV remote and skip past.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If I'm paying for premium, I just don't want ads! But they keep trying to shove it down my throat regardless

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Different ads though. One is from YouTube and one is from the creator.

[–] Evotech@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] tomsh@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

Exactly. In my opinion, that's Google's biggest mistake, and I can't believe some people are okay with it. Everyone attacks YouTube as if they are the biggest villains, but let's not forget that without them, most creators would be nothing. Most people here are aware of how difficult it is to maintain such a platform, yet they are unrealistic with their attacks. And yes, I am someone who has LineageOS installed, which says enough about what I think of Google, but sometimes you have to be fair. If they banned creators from having ads within their videos, I might even consider paying for premium.

[–] Fuzzy_Red_Panda@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago

And then there are people like me, who aren't opposed to paying for access in theory, but will never be okay with having the videos I watch be tied to an account. It's inconvenient and I don't trust Google with my watch history, even when the option is turned off.

Also I wouldn't pay until: Youtube stops showing ads for hate groups; stops its manipulative recommendations and push towards right-leaning and extremist content; stops manipulating creators to all make the same kind of video in order to please the algorithm; removes hate content and extremist content; stops auto-flagging and removing fair-use content.

[–] Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

I'm a bit surprised they don't do this actually. Premium is good valued off you use the music side of it as well, which I do, but not for just ad free YouTube.

yep, we're back at "piracy is a service issue"