Maybe because im a millennial but it's easier than ever to have all the music you could ever want downloaded and playing off local storage, idk i don't get it i guess it sucks listening to some online playlist and every few songs one is just stuff you'd never choose to listen to.
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How do you think the unthinkable? With an ithberg.
Why do people pay for this? Are there any real advantages?
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.
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.
Are there any real advantages?
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No 5 seconds forced delay when using ad blockers
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Higher bitrates available
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Ad blockers don't work on Chromecast, other solutions don't offer easy casting from the phone app
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Better value than audio only services like Spotify
Here I am using firefox and ublock or newpipe, I haven't seen a youtube ad in years. 🤷
And revanced for my phone
I only see ads when I go to a friends house and they have that on the tv app blasting 1min ads every 5minutes.
I was going to comment this. Having super tech illiterate friends is painnnnnnn . they're so bad with tech.
Introduce them to SmartTube for Android TV
They don't care. I've tried with Vanced, blockers, DNS, everything. They'd rather just watch the ads. Blows my balls off.
Drives my crazy, and apparently throwing whatever i have in my hand; at a friend/relatives tv is not acceptable. Honestly and ad appears and it my instant reaction is to shut it the F up, and then usually to glare at whoever owns it like they are an idiot. I love hearing them explain why they pay tolerate it.
Friends with benefits, just not necessarily the good kind.
Last time I saw a youtube ad (on my devices) was when it was a small picture ad on the right side of the video.
"the unthinkable"
Hyperbole much?
Unthinkable is signing up in the first place
They though the titanic unthinkable until they hit an itheburg.
thanks Mike Tyson
Incontheivable!
Was about to say the same. Unthinkable, I never even thought of subscribing in the first place!
Inconceivable!
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This article is hilarious.
First off - "Trust among users is waning". Dude, it's been waning and most people didn't trust YouTube Premium in the first place because of years of having watched on YouTube with as little to no advertisements. It was glorious. The fuck are you on about?
Second, the second paragraph in, author is citing Reddit as the source of information. This is to imply that we can't see price hikes a mile away? When, even if we didn't, we know services like Netflix has been doing it for a while now and YouTube Premium had a price hike before. But now we need Reddit users to know anything? Fucking lol.
This is a case where just having the headline would've been good for us.
Is this a good moment to post a link to revanced?
I thought revanced died?
Vanced died, ReVanced is alive and...there's internal conflicts but it's working
laughs in:
NewPipe
Tubular
PipePipe
FreeTube
SkyTube
You have to frequently do some shenanigans to get things working because shit keeps breaking. I still do it, but it's honestly annoying AF that i need to tinker with my apps like that all the time.
I miss the days when companies would grandfather your price in, so price hikes only effected new users... Now days everyone pays.
Yeah if you have to compare a service with Netflix, and Netflix comes out as the better value proposition, the other service is doing something really wrong.
Now is the time for peertube to shine
me: can we have ad free videos with uBlock Origin + SponsorBlock?
google: we have ad free videos at home.
at home: YouTube Premium
unthinkable? Coordinate an attack to kidnap families of high executives?
Lol, the poor suckers who ever paid for premium in the first place.
What's the point of YouTube premium again? uBlock Origin works on laptops, tablets, and phones. Smart Tube works on TVs.
Is there some live sports thing that it's bundled with or something?
"unthinkable"???
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