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Popular opinion: Youtube premium is laughably overpriced (in the UK anyway) due to bundling with the totally unrelated youtube music service. The premium cost
by wooger 5y ago
Popular opinion: Youtube premium is laughably overpriced (in the UK anyway) due to bundling with the totally unrelated youtube music service.
The premium cost of 11.99 GBP per month gets you:
* No ads.
* Additional music service I don't want.
* No additional made-for-youtube video content that I'm aware of.
* The app removes one user-hostile non-feature: it no longer refuses to play audio while in the background (iOS).
* The app gains no new features, The iOS system wide Picture-in-picture that every other video service supports is still blocked, including from the Safari browser.
Considering that I get the only features I want in desktop Firefox for free, it's incredibly poor value and badly marketed. They could get perhaps 2 GBP a month for no ads, but their other user hostile behaviour on iOS and that price makes it a joke.
The ads are so intrusive, frequent and low quality that I just stopped using youtube on iOS completely. Good job.
- drcongo 5y agoI set Insight [0] browser as the default browser on my iPhone and iPad just so that I can click links to YouTube that I get sent without having to watch some of the worst advertising ever produced. I still actually _use_ Safari as my main browser though. [0] https://insightbrowser.com https://insightbrowser.com