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Why do people pay for this? Are there any real advantages?
No 5 seconds forced delay when using ad blockers
Higher bitrates available
Ad blockers don't work on Chromecast, other solutions don't offer easy casting from the phone app
Better value than audio only services like Spotify
They believe creator should be paid. That's about it.
Theoretically it lets you skip the occasions when Noutube/[insert youtube front end]/uBlock origin has issues blocking youtube ads, but that's rare nowadays.
Speaking for everyone?
I pay because I use yt music and my PRIMARY tv watching is YT, and I use one or the other all day long.
YT has no ads, and I can skip with the press of a button most creator ads so it's kinda nice and easy. (Yes I know what sponsor block is and it's installed on Firefox so one less button press on my pc)
Do I pay YouTube FOR the creators? Nope I pay so I can sign in / watch yt or listen to my music anywhere without jumping through hoops.
I also have / sometimes use grayjay on my phone (and I paid futo for it to support it) I have smart tube next on my Nvidia shield too. My wife/son use it mostly.
I sync yt music to my Garmin watch for running, I run about 20 miles a week so add that to feature I'm paying for.
I downloaded a handful of videos before flying to CA earlier this week, but the flights had WiFi so that didn't really give me anything special ;)
Can I do all this without paying, sure, but I don't mind paying for stuff I get value from.
Am I happy about $4/mo increase? Absolutely not, but it's not gonna break me either. $4/30 is .13c a day.
You can also download videos, for offline playback.
Or right I forgot they added officially endorsed piracy and no rights group thought to challenge it. But then again anyone with a web browser can do the same.