I personally don't mind paying for YouTube Premium. It's a tiny tiny fraction if compared to the cost my rent and my (relatively exorbitant) car insurance rate.

I personally don't mind paying for YouTube Premium. It's a tiny tiny fraction if compared to the cost my rent and my (relatively exorbitant) car insurance rate. I would think most folks making a software engineer's salary wouldn't have a hard time with its cost. It eliminates ads, you get a "premium bitrate" on 1080p videos, so I'm fairly happy with it. Of course, in terms of ROI value, the YT Premium subscription gives you very little since the content is already free (when viewed with ads), especially if you consider that YT Premium is priced similarly to major streaming services which actually offer a significant amount of amazing original content (ad-free as well, at least in the case of Disney, Netflix, and Apple).