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Youtube is harassing us! (gregtech.eu)
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[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

first and foremost you're paying for a worse experience than just installing an adblocker.

Paying for convenience isn't the same as paying to not be inconvenienced.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I pay for Premium for a few different reasons:

  1. I don't need to even think about fighting with ad block blockers.
  2. I also get YouTube Music, so I no longer need to pay for Spotify.
  3. Premium views pay creators more than regular views.
[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There is clearly a value proposition or no one would pay for it. I personally don't like to reward any company using the pay to not be inconvenienced model

A lot of people would rather fight adblockers (idk, literally never been an issue for me), use xManager (oh right spotify is free) , Pay creators you like through patreon (or buy their shitty amazon links or merch or whatever)

Premium is just rewarding youtube for making their platform worse in order to sell premium and fuck that noise.

[–] WldFyre@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Free Spotify blows, though

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 points 3 months ago

For me it’s a way to help support content creators, along with donations/merch, although admittedly not having to even try to block the ads is a nice bonus.

I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a YouTube fan, and it will be something I continue to evaluate.

[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 months ago

Youtube premium gives you a higher bitrate option as well.

I think it's only for lower resolutions (other than 4k) but if the video was uploaded with an absurdly high bitrate you can see a slightly less destroyed version.