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It's not "a few bucks", it's like $12 a month, more than most streaming services, for the privilege of having it not pause the video when you lock the phone. Wh

It's not "a few bucks", it's like $12 a month, more than most streaming services, for the privilege of having it not pause the video when you lock the phone. Which it shouldn't be doing in the first place. Also this yet one more thing on top of the subscriptions you already have. Can't subscribe to all of them.

formerkrogeremp 5y ago
I'm not sure it's worth the $20 per month for a family plan of up to five either.
- sofixa 5y ago
  $4/person for music streaming, and all the video on the internet, without ads? What is a fair price for you?
  - adalu 5y ago
    zero because they didn't do the creation work in the first place and they don't share their revenue with the creators. So how about that?
    - ripdog 5y ago
      The hosting of an unlimited number of videos of (almost) unlimited length at up to 8k resolution for an indefinite length of time is worth nothing to you? I'm incredibly grateful that there is such a vast video archive on the internet with such liberal terms for video uploading and playback. And Google does revenue share with creaters. Heard of the YouTube partner program? Partners receive money per view from people who watch ads or have premium, and premium views are worth more.
    - sofixa 5y ago
      They share revenues with creators, and enable them to have a massive reach by hosting unlimited amount of video for free.
  - LinAGKar 5y ago
    And if you don't care about their music service?
  - formerkrogeremp 5y ago
    I do pay that much for no ads and music streaming, but I'm not sure that giving Google more money in a monthly subscription on top of the money they generate from serving me ads is the best use of my funds. I pay that much because I hate YouTube ads. YMMV.
sofixa 5y ago
There are more features than that. You get music streaming ( usually in the $£$ 10 range), no ads and offline downloads. It's really not a bad deal, especially shared on the family plan.
- LinAGKar 5y ago
  Losing ads, sure, and it would be good to pay them something, but IDGAF about YouTube Music (I have Spotify for that) or their watered-down download function (which I'm pretty sure is locked to playing the download in their app). So the 50 SEK (5.32 USD) difference between Premium Lite and Premium would be purely to make it not pause.

formerkrogeremp 5y ago

I'm not sure it's worth the $20 per month for a family plan of up to five either.

sofixa 5y ago
$4/person for music streaming, and all the video on the internet, without ads? What is a fair price for you?
- adalu 5y ago
  zero because they didn't do the creation work in the first place and they don't share their revenue with the creators. So how about that?
  - ripdog 5y ago
    The hosting of an unlimited number of videos of (almost) unlimited length at up to 8k resolution for an indefinite length of time is worth nothing to you? I'm incredibly grateful that there is such a vast video archive on the internet with such liberal terms for video uploading and playback. And Google does revenue share with creaters. Heard of the YouTube partner program? Partners receive money per view from people who watch ads or have premium, and premium views are worth more.
  - sofixa 5y ago
    They share revenues with creators, and enable them to have a massive reach by hosting unlimited amount of video for free.
- LinAGKar 5y ago
  And if you don't care about their music service?
- formerkrogeremp 5y ago
  I do pay that much for no ads and music streaming, but I'm not sure that giving Google more money in a monthly subscription on top of the money they generate from serving me ads is the best use of my funds. I pay that much because I hate YouTube ads. YMMV.

sofixa 5y ago

There are more features than that. You get music streaming ( usually in the $£$ 10 range), no ads and offline downloads. It's really not a bad deal, especially shared on the family plan.

LinAGKar 5y ago
Losing ads, sure, and it would be good to pay them something, but IDGAF about YouTube Music (I have Spotify for that) or their watered-down download function (which I'm pretty sure is locked to playing the download in their app). So the 50 SEK (5.32 USD) difference between Premium Lite and Premium would be purely to make it not pause.