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Agreed. I get enormous value out of YT and am delighted to pay the $20/month or so. Plus the paid version works great as a podcast medium because it is robust,

by tomcam 2y ago

Agreed. I get enormous value out of YT and am delighted to pay the $20/month or so. Plus the paid version works great as a podcast medium because it is robust, runs in the background and uses comparatively few resources.

belter 2y ago
Until they go the way of Amazon/Netflix and show you ads anyway even if you pay...
throw__away7391 2y ago
100% agree. The value I get from YT is easily 10x any other streaming subscription (maybe excluding Spotify), probably a lot more than that actually. Particularly for the HN crowd I would assume, there's so much good and interesting content being made by very knowledgable and passionate creators on every topic imaginable. Great for WFH too, I put on a walking tour of different cities or an extended session recording from some deep house DJ in the background, perfect for coding.
Brian_K_White 2y ago
I've been paying for yt for years. And it was fine for years. Then one day I have a blank home screen with no suggestions on all my tvs and rokus etc, because I have history turned off, and have no subscriptions. Note, it didn't go blank when I turned off history. History has always been turned off. Only a year or so ago it went blank and nags me to enable history on every device every time. I partially caved and subscribed to 20 or 30 channels, and still have a blank home. On some interfaces it does show new videos strictly from the subscription list, but nothing else related, and it includes 50% fucking shorts mixed right in, and no way to filter those out. And of course yt phrases the nag like an error that needs to be fixed, and pre-loading the focus on that button on launch, every time, every device. Now every single time I turn on the tv it's a several click sequence on the roku or tv or google remote to navigate off of that to the subscriptions item half way down the left menu. It's such a slick futuristic life I'm paying for. I wish I could make my money work as shitty for them as this service does for me. Here is the "value" of paying for youtube: It's having only 8 of your fingernails pulled out instead of all 10.

by tomcam 2y ago

belter 2y ago

Until they go the way of Amazon/Netflix and show you ads anyway even if you pay...

throw__away7391 2y ago

100% agree. The value I get from YT is easily 10x any other streaming subscription (maybe excluding Spotify), probably a lot more than that actually. Particularly for the HN crowd I would assume, there's so much good and interesting content being made by very knowledgable and passionate creators on every topic imaginable. Great for WFH too, I put on a walking tour of different cities or an extended session recording from some deep house DJ in the background, perfect for coding.

Brian_K_White 2y ago

I've been paying for yt for years. And it was fine for years. Then one day I have a blank home screen with no suggestions on all my tvs and rokus etc, because I have history turned off, and have no subscriptions. Note, it didn't go blank when I turned off history. History has always been turned off. Only a year or so ago it went blank and nags me to enable history on every device every time. I partially caved and subscribed to 20 or 30 channels, and still have a blank home. On some interfaces it does show new videos strictly from the subscription list, but nothing else related, and it includes 50% fucking shorts mixed right in, and no way to filter those out. And of course yt phrases the nag like an error that needs to be fixed, and pre-loading the focus on that button on launch, every time, every device. Now every single time I turn on the tv it's a several click sequence on the roku or tv or google remote to navigate off of that to the subscriptions item half way down the left menu. It's such a slick futuristic life I'm paying for. I wish I could make my money work as shitty for them as this service does for me. Here is the "value" of paying for youtube: It's having only 8 of your fingernails pulled out instead of all 10.