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I used to pay for YouTube premium. But I left and switched to adblocking after it kept getting worse (YouTube is one of the few sites that I use an adblocker on
by kevincox 6y ago
I used to pay for YouTube premium. But I left and switched to adblocking after it kept getting worse (YouTube is one of the few sites that I use an adblocker on).
- YouTube Music is awful, not a halfway decent product to replace the good Play Music.
- Stopped sending emails for video uploads (I know, I'm weird)
- "Premier" videos started to be shown in the RSS feeds. So now I am notified of stuff I can't even watch yet.
- Half the time videos just play at 360p even though I have never had a second of buffering on my 500Mpbs connection.
I think there were a couple of other things that were bugging me. But when they dropped the email notifications and the RSS feeds were terrible it was the last straw for me.
I would gladly pay if I felt that they were providing a good service and it was getting better.
- dqv 6y ago> Half the time videos just play at 360p even though I have never had a second of buffering on my 500Mpbs connection. Weird. I have a 50Mbps connection and get 1080p minimum on everything I watch. I like to use YT Music for discovery but not a full listening experience. Over all, YTP has really improved content discovery for me. Ad free makes it easy to find out which videos are BS.
- driverdan 6y ago> Half the time videos just play at 360p This is your ISP's fault for having bad peering.
- kevincox 6y agoI'm 99% sure it isn't my ISP. I get a very good connection to everything consistently including Google services. And switching to 4k works nearly instantly and never has hiccups. For some reason their detection algorithm is bugged out.