This is why I have been paying for this since a while ago when it was called .. youtube red or something ? This has has so many names that I lost count. Anyway

This is why I have been paying for this since a while ago when it was called .. youtube red or something ? This has has so many names that I lost count. Anyway, for the standard 10$ a month price, I get Play Music + Youtube without ads (while supporting creators and paying the platform for its infrastructure, unlike adblock). Play Music is an ok music streaming solution. It has all the features I expect from such a service + I can import (and export) my own albums. This is the killer feature for me. Getting Youtube without ads was just a cherry on top for me. At the time I was living in Europe where there were anyway not that many ads on Youtube. It is very valuable now that I live in the USA where there are ads everywhere. Now, all I want is : - for Google not to fuck this up. I fear that Youtube Music will be a disaster and that I will lose some of the features I care about in Play Music. The very long transition is giving me some hope that they have enough time to carry things over.. but I am not too optimistic. - I was going to write to remove tracking but I don't know how I feel about it. All the streaming services I know do track what you listen to in order to give you good suggestions and automixes. So that's pretty much a feature at this point and a way to discover new artists, although there is a tunnel effect in place. So as long as that info does not leave Youtube, I guess I am relatively fine with it until proven otherwise.