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It's hilariously sad to me how many ~~rubes~~ ~~easy marks~~ people are still paying Google for the pRivIlEge to not have their eyes and brains assaulted by ads.
Either use a front-end without ads or stop using it, your continued excuses for why you NEED to give daddy google money fall on deaf ears.
"but it's such a value!" no it isn't, you're just gullible and naive. Or complicit. Which is worse.
Edit: forgot the word "not"
What ads? If you mean normal YouTube ads, no, Premium removes those. If you mean sponsor sections of video, it’s no SponsorBlock but now if you start skipping ahead during those sections of a video you can click a button that jumps you to the end of the ad. This is a Premium feature.
Edit: Oh, I forgot they added a “Premium lite.” I can understand why that might appeal to a subset of users, but that’s definitely not for me.
Easy enough on PC, but my usual use case is the video playing on my iPhone, so…no.
Why? It’s a service I enjoy and find valuable to me.
I’m pretty happy with the value I get for premium. I watch/listen to a shitload of educational content and political commentary on YouTube. It also includes YouTube Music so I have my music streaming covered there, too. I probably get more value-per-dollar out of my premium subscription than my Nebula subscription (which is also fantastic, by the way).
Yeah, how dare I spend my money on something useful to me and in the process help support the people who make the shit I watch. (Though admittedly, while premium views are worth far more than ad views and literally infinitely more than ad-blocked views to channel creators, that isn’t the bulk of their revenue, which comes instead from sponsor deals and Patreon/channel member subscriptions.)
Complicit in what?
You do you, my friend, but don’t act like you’re better than others because you disagree with how they consume content compared to you.
Complicit with google's shitty business practices, their tacit support of genocide, take your pick. If you're cool giving your money to them, thats on you.