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I’m tempted by YouTube Premium, but at £12/month in the UK it seems so expensive. Thats around double what I pay for Apple TV+, Amazon Prime, or Spotify! I als

I’m tempted by YouTube Premium, but at £12/month in the UK it seems so expensive. Thats around double what I pay for Apple TV+, Amazon Prime, or Spotify! I also don’t really want to use ad blockers with YouTube, because I do want to support the small content creators I watch. But the volume of ads (and especially the unskippable ones!) is getting out of control at times, particularly in the app. If they brought out a “YouTube Premium lite” or whatever at £6 a month I’d be in.

walthamstow 4y ago
Assuming the creator has the option to do this, you would both be better off if you blocked YT ads and just sent them some money directly
- _cenw 4y ago
  The YouTube Premium part paid out to creators (by proportional watchtime) is surprisingly high at 55%, especially if you consider that they use remainder to also pay for music licensing.
ChildOfChaos 4y ago
You can get it pretty cheap using a VPN, I think to turkey?
dewey 4y ago
Use a VPN and sign up through Argentina. It's around £2/ month then, have been doing that for a year.
yinka 4y ago
I pay the equivalent of £2 every month for YouTube premium in the UK using a non-UK account. I don't feel guilty about this because I only want YT-Premium for blocking the ads, I don't need the music, videos etc that comes with it.
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ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
I just don't like the algorithmic sorting that YT Premium does for me. I keep losing the stuff I want to watch, and it keeps ramming crap in front of me. I tried the free month, and ran screaming. No way. I have no problems at all, paying for streaming (I pay for quite a few channels). I just didn't like the YT Premium user experience. I suspect, if I was a lot younger, I might like it more.
- dewey 4y ago
  > I keep losing the stuff I want to watch Why not use the "Watch later" feature to add it to your queue? I use that feature all the time.
- slikrick 4y ago
  YouTube premium doesn't do any special sorting
  - ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
    Huh. I must be talking about some other service, then. > Nevermind –Emily LaTella
windowsrookie 4y ago
Does YouTube premium also include ad free YouTube music like it does in the USA? I don't subscribe to a music service like Spotify because my YouTube premium subscription covers both. Sometimes a friend (you doesn't subscribe to YouTube premium) will show me a YouTube video on their device. I find it impossible to watch YouTube without a subscription. I don't understand how the average user can tolerate the amount of ads.
- brokenmachine 4y ago
  I'm sort of happy that average joe shmoe can tolerate using youtube with the ads, because if everyone couldn't tolerate them as much as I can't tolerate them, then youtube would not exist. Even if you pay for youtube you get the sponsor spiels within the videos. I wouldn't use youtube at all without sponsorblock.
TrickyRick 4y ago
You mean the feature literally called YouTube Premium Lite? ;) https://www.youtube.com/premiumlite https://www.youtube.com/premiumlite Another option is to just VPN to Turkey when setting it up (Can be done with a UK account and UK card) and then it's about $1.5/month.
- samtheDamned 4y ago
  When doing those vpn tricks to get lower pricing you run the risk of services terminating your account and that's something a lot of people can't afford when it comes to their google accounts
- Reason077 4y ago
  When I click on that link in the UK, I just get a “this offer is not available” error. Seems like they don’t yet offer such a thing here.
  - TrickyRick 4y ago
    Ah I see! Might be US exclusive. Anyway the VPN solution works well in all countries.
    - CharlesW 4y ago
      > Might be US exclusive. It's not available in the US either. The latest list I can find says it's being tested in Belgium, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, and Luxembourg.

walthamstow 4y ago

Assuming the creator has the option to do this, you would both be better off if you blocked YT ads and just sent them some money directly

_cenw 4y ago
The YouTube Premium part paid out to creators (by proportional watchtime) is surprisingly high at 55%, especially if you consider that they use remainder to also pay for music licensing.

ChildOfChaos 4y ago

You can get it pretty cheap using a VPN, I think to turkey?

dewey 4y ago

Use a VPN and sign up through Argentina. It's around £2/ month then, have been doing that for a year.

yinka 4y ago

I pay the equivalent of £2 every month for YouTube premium in the UK using a non-UK account. I don't feel guilty about this because I only want YT-Premium for blocking the ads, I don't need the music, videos etc that comes with it.

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ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago

I just don't like the algorithmic sorting that YT Premium does for me. I keep losing the stuff I want to watch, and it keeps ramming crap in front of me. I tried the free month, and ran screaming. No way. I have no problems at all, paying for streaming (I pay for quite a few channels). I just didn't like the YT Premium user experience. I suspect, if I was a lot younger, I might like it more.

dewey 4y ago
> I keep losing the stuff I want to watch Why not use the "Watch later" feature to add it to your queue? I use that feature all the time.
slikrick 4y ago
YouTube premium doesn't do any special sorting
- ChrisMarshallNY 4y ago
  Huh. I must be talking about some other service, then. > Nevermind –Emily LaTella

windowsrookie 4y ago

Does YouTube premium also include ad free YouTube music like it does in the USA? I don't subscribe to a music service like Spotify because my YouTube premium subscription covers both. Sometimes a friend (you doesn't subscribe to YouTube premium) will show me a YouTube video on their device. I find it impossible to watch YouTube without a subscription. I don't understand how the average user can tolerate the amount of ads.

brokenmachine 4y ago
I'm sort of happy that average joe shmoe can tolerate using youtube with the ads, because if everyone couldn't tolerate them as much as I can't tolerate them, then youtube would not exist. Even if you pay for youtube you get the sponsor spiels within the videos. I wouldn't use youtube at all without sponsorblock.

TrickyRick 4y ago

You mean the feature literally called YouTube Premium Lite? ;) https://www.youtube.com/premiumlite https://www.youtube.com/premiumlite Another option is to just VPN to Turkey when setting it up (Can be done with a UK account and UK card) and then it's about $1.5/month.

samtheDamned 4y ago
When doing those vpn tricks to get lower pricing you run the risk of services terminating your account and that's something a lot of people can't afford when it comes to their google accounts
Reason077 4y ago
When I click on that link in the UK, I just get a “this offer is not available” error. Seems like they don’t yet offer such a thing here.
- TrickyRick 4y ago
  Ah I see! Might be US exclusive. Anyway the VPN solution works well in all countries.
  - CharlesW 4y ago
    > Might be US exclusive. It's not available in the US either. The latest list I can find says it's being tested in Belgium, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, and Luxembourg.