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I pay for YouTube Premium and find it and, especially, the content on YouTube to be indispensable. I choose not to log in on my work machine though, and the Yo

I pay for YouTube Premium and find it and, especially, the content on YouTube to be indispensable. I choose not to log in on my work machine though, and the YouTube experience there leaves me with such a bad taste in my mouth. Most recently, adds that don’t go away without user input. Ugh. I’m not ready to cancel my personal Premium subscription, but it does have my considering how I can decouple myself from the platform moving forward. And yes, Adblock, but not the point here.

us0r 6y ago
Netflix and YT are hands down the best money I spend each month. I was a little annoyed they made me switch from play to yt music but that's grown on me now too.
Orphis 6y ago
Why don't you have a personal browser profile where you are logged in YT to watch any video?
- dylan604 6y ago
  church and state. separate separate separate. pure and simple. don't do personal anything on corporate anything. BYOD and use your mobile with your personal creds. i don't even connect my personal device to corp wifi.
GrantZvolsky 6y ago
The volume of ads is lower if you're logged in, even without a subscription.
munificent 6y ago
I'm biased since I work at Google, but, seriously, my YouTube Premium subscription is the most bang for the buck out of everything I subscribe to. My YouTube experience is delightful. I never see ads, and my feed is nothing but wonderfully enriching videos all tailored to my hobbies and interests.
- lostsock 6y ago
  Couldn't agree more. YouTube premium and Google Music for the one price? Works on all of my devices, no ads, and totally seamless. Such good value for money.
  - lostmsu 6y ago
    100% agree, except I don't pay anything and simply use ad blockers.
  - Apotheos 6y ago
    Just a heads up Google Play Music is being shut down, of you have any uploaded music, download it!
    - mchusma 6y ago
      It's now youtube music, it's basically the same. Although you can watch videos in it, or just listen to videos as music? It's sort of odd and I half get it (lots of good audio content on youtube if you turn off the video). So you still get music. But Google's branding strategy here is just odd and confusing. I don't really think they even known how this is going to shake up.
- erklik 6y ago
  > my feed is nothing but wonderfully enriching videos all tailored to my hobbies and interests The ad part I agree quite well with. However, I find that Youtube's recommendation algorithm is quite lacking. I mean this is also the case with Netflix and other social media I have used so not just Youtube's fault (only one that sticks out as better is TikTok). For me, it tends to simply repeatedly recommend way too similar videos. If I somehow happen to watch a video about aa tech review, my feed will be tech reviews and that's it. Heaven forbid I make the mistake of clicking some random political video, and I am now in a hole where my feed is full of right-wing, anti-vaxxers, and conspiracy theorists and so on. In general, it seems like Youtube's algo gets quite quickly to the local minimum/maximum but then struggles to look around or away from it. This leads to very a insular and locked-in-your-own-box experience.
benhurmarcel 6y ago
Youtube Premium is nice but it's priced fairly high. More expensive than a music subscription, just to remove some Youtube ads (it doesn't remove in-video ads, you need to use Sponsorblock for that). I'd pay for Premium if it didn't come bundled with a music subscription (and the price reflected that).
- warrenq 6y ago
  YouTube videos have a Trillions of hours of worth of videos, many of which of which will potentially change your life. Comparing it to shitty Music Services is seriously underrepresenting it's value

us0r 6y ago

Netflix and YT are hands down the best money I spend each month. I was a little annoyed they made me switch from play to yt music but that's grown on me now too.

Orphis 6y ago

Why don't you have a personal browser profile where you are logged in YT to watch any video?

dylan604 6y ago
church and state. separate separate separate. pure and simple. don't do personal anything on corporate anything. BYOD and use your mobile with your personal creds. i don't even connect my personal device to corp wifi.

GrantZvolsky 6y ago

The volume of ads is lower if you're logged in, even without a subscription.

munificent 6y ago

I'm biased since I work at Google, but, seriously, my YouTube Premium subscription is the most bang for the buck out of everything I subscribe to. My YouTube experience is delightful. I never see ads, and my feed is nothing but wonderfully enriching videos all tailored to my hobbies and interests.

lostsock 6y ago
Couldn't agree more. YouTube premium and Google Music for the one price? Works on all of my devices, no ads, and totally seamless. Such good value for money.
- lostmsu 6y ago
  100% agree, except I don't pay anything and simply use ad blockers.
- Apotheos 6y ago
  Just a heads up Google Play Music is being shut down, of you have any uploaded music, download it!
  - mchusma 6y ago
    It's now youtube music, it's basically the same. Although you can watch videos in it, or just listen to videos as music? It's sort of odd and I half get it (lots of good audio content on youtube if you turn off the video). So you still get music. But Google's branding strategy here is just odd and confusing. I don't really think they even known how this is going to shake up.
erklik 6y ago
> my feed is nothing but wonderfully enriching videos all tailored to my hobbies and interests The ad part I agree quite well with. However, I find that Youtube's recommendation algorithm is quite lacking. I mean this is also the case with Netflix and other social media I have used so not just Youtube's fault (only one that sticks out as better is TikTok). For me, it tends to simply repeatedly recommend way too similar videos. If I somehow happen to watch a video about aa tech review, my feed will be tech reviews and that's it. Heaven forbid I make the mistake of clicking some random political video, and I am now in a hole where my feed is full of right-wing, anti-vaxxers, and conspiracy theorists and so on. In general, it seems like Youtube's algo gets quite quickly to the local minimum/maximum but then struggles to look around or away from it. This leads to very a insular and locked-in-your-own-box experience.

benhurmarcel 6y ago

Youtube Premium is nice but it's priced fairly high. More expensive than a music subscription, just to remove some Youtube ads (it doesn't remove in-video ads, you need to use Sponsorblock for that). I'd pay for Premium if it didn't come bundled with a music subscription (and the price reflected that).

warrenq 6y ago
YouTube videos have a Trillions of hours of worth of videos, many of which of which will potentially change your life. Comparing it to shitty Music Services is seriously underrepresenting it's value