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Get YouTube premium. You won't regret it. The added benefit of listening to audiobooks on YouTube while doing other things on your phone make it worth it. You

Get YouTube premium. You won't regret it. The added benefit of listening to audiobooks on YouTube while doing other things on your phone make it worth it. YouTube premium = no ads, Spotify + audible + supporting creators + more productivity on mobile (pip mode). Also you can download videos for a flight/later.

ben-schaaf 6y ago
Google doesn't get to dictate what/how their webpage works. Firefox on Android can run extensions like "Video Background Play Fix" to let videos play in the background. Youtube-dl is a great way to download videos for watching later. I prefer supporting creator directly.
- smashah 6y ago
  Ok
- the_pwner224 6y ago
  If you're on Android, NewPipe is a lot better than hacking extensions into your browser. Plus FF will add a convenient button in the address bar to open a youtube page in NewPipe.
chc 6y ago
Eh, I don't think there's much of a selection of legal audiobooks on YouTube other than public domain stuff, so it's not a great substitute for Audible.
- smashah 6y ago
  Fair enough, however for someone with audible, it may be a easy first step to get a lot of audiobooks and listen easily which was my main point.
TheKarateKid 6y ago
Agreed, but you'd be surprised how many people will blow $10-15 on one drink but balk at the idea of paying for something they use for hours every month.
- smashah 6y ago
  Totally. I'm sure a lot of people here spend at least 3x more time on YouTube than Netflix. Just makes sense to me.
  - humblebee 6y ago
    YouTube is where I watch almost all of my educational / "reality tv" (vlogging, mostly makers) content. Netflix has some pretty good stuff every once in a while, but it has nothing on YouTube. Educational television of the 90s and early 2000s seems to have reinvented itself on YouTube with channels like The Great War, Tested, all of the PBS channels (Space Time, Physics Girl, Infinite Series, etc), Vsauce, 3Blue1Brown, Veritasium, SciShow, all the cooking shows, metal fabrication, music history, history in general. Far to many amazing to name here, but I think I subscribe to at least 30 rather high quality channels that I'd place under "education". I really don't care much for saving music, but I'm getting pretty close to starting to archive some of my favourite channels / series in case they disappear. I for the most part don't watch Netflix or Hulu anymore. When a big show comes along I'll watch it, but I really enjoy watching other people talk about things they love.s
- soheil 6y ago
  I have a gut feeling that the people who try not to spend money on drinks end up drinking before they go out possibly causing traffic accidents etc. Which makes your comparison unfair. The act of paying for shitty UI should not be related to the virtue of abstaining from drinking until at a social gathering or a bar.
anewdirection 6y ago
So... pay them to be shitty, but slightly less shitty to you? That just seems like funding them to make the world worse.
- smashah 6y ago
  Try it. You'll like it
dazhbog 6y ago
Or get YouTube Vanced on rooted android. ;)
- smashah 6y ago
  Yeh I used to use that before. Good alternative
pier25 6y ago
I agree. Streaming video is expensive and content creators deserve to be paid.

ben-schaaf 6y ago

Google doesn't get to dictate what/how their webpage works. Firefox on Android can run extensions like "Video Background Play Fix" to let videos play in the background. Youtube-dl is a great way to download videos for watching later. I prefer supporting creator directly.

smashah 6y ago
Ok
the_pwner224 6y ago
If you're on Android, NewPipe is a lot better than hacking extensions into your browser. Plus FF will add a convenient button in the address bar to open a youtube page in NewPipe.

chc 6y ago

Eh, I don't think there's much of a selection of legal audiobooks on YouTube other than public domain stuff, so it's not a great substitute for Audible.

smashah 6y ago
Fair enough, however for someone with audible, it may be a easy first step to get a lot of audiobooks and listen easily which was my main point.

TheKarateKid 6y ago

Agreed, but you'd be surprised how many people will blow $10-15 on one drink but balk at the idea of paying for something they use for hours every month.

smashah 6y ago
Totally. I'm sure a lot of people here spend at least 3x more time on YouTube than Netflix. Just makes sense to me.
- humblebee 6y ago
  YouTube is where I watch almost all of my educational / "reality tv" (vlogging, mostly makers) content. Netflix has some pretty good stuff every once in a while, but it has nothing on YouTube. Educational television of the 90s and early 2000s seems to have reinvented itself on YouTube with channels like The Great War, Tested, all of the PBS channels (Space Time, Physics Girl, Infinite Series, etc), Vsauce, 3Blue1Brown, Veritasium, SciShow, all the cooking shows, metal fabrication, music history, history in general. Far to many amazing to name here, but I think I subscribe to at least 30 rather high quality channels that I'd place under "education". I really don't care much for saving music, but I'm getting pretty close to starting to archive some of my favourite channels / series in case they disappear. I for the most part don't watch Netflix or Hulu anymore. When a big show comes along I'll watch it, but I really enjoy watching other people talk about things they love.s
soheil 6y ago
I have a gut feeling that the people who try not to spend money on drinks end up drinking before they go out possibly causing traffic accidents etc. Which makes your comparison unfair. The act of paying for shitty UI should not be related to the virtue of abstaining from drinking until at a social gathering or a bar.

anewdirection 6y ago

So... pay them to be shitty, but slightly less shitty to you? That just seems like funding them to make the world worse.

smashah 6y ago
Try it. You'll like it

dazhbog 6y ago

Or get YouTube Vanced on rooted android. ;)

smashah 6y ago
Yeh I used to use that before. Good alternative

pier25 6y ago

I agree. Streaming video is expensive and content creators deserve to be paid.