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I understand your earlier comment was a bit tongue in cheek, but I find it hard to justify the £12.99 a month, when I can only imagine half of it is going towar

by emmet 3y ago

I understand your earlier comment was a bit tongue in cheek, but I find it hard to justify the £12.99 a month, when I can only imagine half of it is going towards Youtube Music which I have absolutely zero intent of using. Maybe it's a free add on and it would cost the same without it, but the idea of "wasting" money on that completely turns me off. I'm considering doing the same as you with movies and downloading YouTube videos to my NAS with yt-dlp as they come out. Would probably be a better experience overall. Maybe this is the catalyst for me actually doing a bit of technical work for the first time in years.

4ggr0 3y ago
> I find it hard to justify the £12.99 a month, when I can only imagine half of it is going towards Youtube Music That's actually a good point, yes, forgot about that aspect. I think I didn't mention this because I bought my subscription over VPN in Ukraine and now pay about $2 per month. Unethical, probably. But, you know. if that stops working i'll probably have to find an alternative, as i absolutely hate and despise ads. > downloading YouTube videos to my NAS with yt-dlp yeah, same, this interests me as well. curate some sort of JSON file with channels you actually care about, and when new videos come out, download them locally and put them where my media streaming program can use them. then just delete them after they're watched, unless they're really important for some reason. i once started setting this up but got distracted halfway through and forgot about it :D there must be someone who already does this, but i didn't really find anything with a quick duckduckgo.
rafabulsing 3y ago
Would you be willing to pay £12.99 if it didn't come with YouTube Music?
- emmet 3y ago
  Strangely enough, maybe? It would be easier to see that as the cost of the product on its own rather than a bundle. Still a bit rich for my blood though I think when other services are cheaper and don't have ads as part of the content. No slight against the creators, of course make that cash, but paying for an "ad free" experience is difficult when you're still getting ads. Sure you have the ad free patreons etc. from individual creators and we're right back to the mess of paying for a thousand different streaming services.

by emmet 3y ago

4ggr0 3y ago

> I find it hard to justify the £12.99 a month, when I can only imagine half of it is going towards Youtube Music That's actually a good point, yes, forgot about that aspect. I think I didn't mention this because I bought my subscription over VPN in Ukraine and now pay about $2 per month. Unethical, probably. But, you know. if that stops working i'll probably have to find an alternative, as i absolutely hate and despise ads. > downloading YouTube videos to my NAS with yt-dlp yeah, same, this interests me as well. curate some sort of JSON file with channels you actually care about, and when new videos come out, download them locally and put them where my media streaming program can use them. then just delete them after they're watched, unless they're really important for some reason. i once started setting this up but got distracted halfway through and forgot about it :D there must be someone who already does this, but i didn't really find anything with a quick duckduckgo.

rafabulsing 3y ago

Would you be willing to pay £12.99 if it didn't come with YouTube Music?

emmet 3y ago
Strangely enough, maybe? It would be easier to see that as the cost of the product on its own rather than a bundle. Still a bit rich for my blood though I think when other services are cheaper and don't have ads as part of the content. No slight against the creators, of course make that cash, but paying for an "ad free" experience is difficult when you're still getting ads. Sure you have the ad free patreons etc. from individual creators and we're right back to the mess of paying for a thousand different streaming services.