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> So why didn't I bother signing up for YouTube premium, even though I was excited to the level of shouting, "This! This is what I wanted!" when it was first an
by creato 8y ago
> So why didn't I bother signing up for YouTube premium, even though I was excited to the level of shouting, "This! This is what I wanted!" when it was first announced?
> I have zero confidence that Google is willing to keep their experiments like this one alive for more than a year or two....
This seems like really silly logic. It's not like youtube premium is a big commitment, and there's zero chance that google is going to actually just rob your money and not give you the product you paid for. So what if you get ad-free YouTube for just a few years and then it goes away? You're back where you started with no real loss. It's not like they cancelled a service that has stickiness (e.g. e-mail history, chat network effects).
On the other hand, I think it's good to buy things that are actually good. Anyone that allows me to pay for content at a reasonable price instead of seeing ads is a good thing and I'll buy it (if I use it of course, which I do use youtube).
- pavel_lishin 8y ago> This seems like really silly logic. It's not like youtube premium is a big commitment There's an emotional component. People are upset that Inbox is going away, that Hangouts is going away. Google Reader was a bigger commitment, since it required you to curate a list of feeds, so that doesn't really count. But honestly at this point using Google services is like letting your third-time-rehab cousin live above your garage. He's not hurting anyone, but you're just waiting for that moment when your uncle calls to tell you he's going to be gone for another 30 days... > there's zero chance that google is going to actually just rob your money and not give you the product you paid for. I don't know, remember when Hulu didn't show ads?