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I am so reliant on YouTube Premium that I forget people even see ads on there. I watch an awful lot of long form interviews, lectures, podcasts -- most download
by kylecazar 10mo ago
I am so reliant on YouTube Premium that I forget people even see ads on there. I watch an awful lot of long form interviews, lectures, podcasts -- most downloaded for offline. It's the easiest $8/month of all my subscriptions.
- stephen_cagle 10mo agoWait a minute, why is mine $13.99 a month? But agree, totally worth it if you at all value your time.
- baby_souffle 10mo ago> Wait a minute, why is mine $13.99 a month? Only the earliest google music people are still grandfathered in at the insanely low rate. The rest of us have been "upgraded" to at least $14/mo.
- stephen_cagle 10mo agoDamn, I just looked up how long I have been paying using https://payments.google.com/ https://payments.google.com/ . Looks like I've been paying for youtube music since October 2014. These grandfathered people must be really really early. :]
- graton 10mo agoI started paying $7.99/month for Google Play Music in June of 2013. And it is now YouTube Premium and still $7.99/month.
- sphars 10mo agoSame here, joined up when GPM was in beta. Still on the $7.99/month. I really only use it for YTM, so if they ever up my price, I'll cancel and use Tidal or Deezer.
- SoftTalker 10mo agoThey also have a family plan that costs a bit more I think.
- tracker1 10mo agoI've been on the family plan for a long while... was before they redid Google Music and YT Music, but it included YT ad free and Google Music, so I did that and dropped Spotify around a decade ago. I watch so much YT content, it's been worth it to keep... Though I'm glad that Rumble is there and seeing some improvements in UX, still not nearly as good as YT, but getting better. Mostly watch via Android TV (NVidia Shield TV).
- ternus 10mo agoIf you don't care about music or background play, and all you want is to eliminate ads, YouTube Premium Lite is $8/month. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15968883 https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15968883
- BLKNSLVR 10mo agoI still can't believe that they paywalled the ability for the video to keep playing when the screen is turned off. Probably a business decision that's made them a lot of money, well done. Thank goodness for ReVanced.
- charcircuit 10mo agoIt's only for music where background play isn't supported for free.
- jayknight 10mo agoIs this true? Nothing will play for me with my screen off.
- SoftTalker 10mo agoYes YouTube Premium will play with the screen off (using the app. No idea about using a browser).
- torben-friis 10mo agoI’m the opposite. I’ve almost entirely given up on YouTube because I know that, even if I pay, I’m subjected to the consequences of ads. Content creators have paid sections in the video itself, the format optimises grabbing your attention, some legitimate-presenting channels are just real state for product placement... You can’t win in that platform.
- jbaber 10mo agoA recent feature for paid subscribers is the ability to skip frequently skipped sections which de facto skips in-video ads.
- codybontecou 10mo agoI see the button to skip, but is there a way to automatically skip these sections?
- RandallBrown 10mo agoNot yet, that I know of
- mhitza 10mo agoSponsorBlock for desktop browsers is a way around that
- tcfhgj 10mo agoReVanced has an integration for SponsorBlock, and SponsorBlock is also available for Firefox Android
- MarsIronPI 10mo agoI forget how bad YouTube is these days. I'm so spoiled by MPV with yt-dlp and mpv_sponsorblock_minimal. It's great.
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- anothernewdude 10mo agoRemoving ads and downloading videos are both available for free.
- frm88 10mo agoI'm the same as you: long form and essays. I use freetube for Linux and Tubular for android, so no ads at all. I follow only youtubers who have a patreon and I support all of them (10 or so and one via kofi).
- littlecranky67 10mo agoFirefox + uBlock Origin + Sponsor Block (includes "skip to highlight feature) + 'Improve youtube!' = no ads, no clickbait thumbnails, and no friction plus tons of optimizations. iOS Safari + uBlock Origin + Vinagre extension = no ads, free background play.
- jamesbelchamber 10mo agoYeh, for all Google's faults in this arena, YouTube Premium is such a good buy. I consume so much YouTube I think it would be unethical for me not to pay. (I still use uBlock of course)
- mFixman 10mo agoI pay for YouTube Premium and I still use ReVanced on mobile. Being able to remove Shorts from the app and to revert Alphabet's many incoherent design decisions makes the whole thing usable.
- Spare_account 10mo agoHow do you hide Shorts? I can't figure out how to do it.
- mFixman 10mo agoSearch "YouTube Revanced" on Android. It's a bit of a pain to install, but it lets you customise your YouTube app and add or remove as many features as you want. These kinds of customisations should be standard for apps people use every day.
- Spare_account 10mo agoTo be clear, I have revanced and use it daily. I'm just too stupid to be able to figure out how to hide Shorts
- mFixman 10mo agoYou -> Gear icon -> Revanced Settings -> General -> Navigation Buttons -> Hide Shorts. You need to also hide them from the feed and a few other places. You are not stupid; Revanced has too many options and the settings and large and confusing. It's easier to search "shorts" and toggle everything.
- Spare_account 10mo agoThank you. I already had that setting enabled, but your comment inspired me to review all the settings again and I have been successful in hiding Shorts from view (for now, until Google changes something again no doubt).
- katrotz 10mo agoI used to be have a premium family suscription, canceled it the moment google increased the price by 30%, I considered such a jump unfair compared to the rest of the economy where salaries are hardly getting adjusted to the inflation.
- hermannj314 10mo agoYou cancelled YouTube Premium because YouTube was trying to keep content creator income on pace with inflation?
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- tmtvl 10mo agoI read it more as katrotz cancelling YTP because it became more expensive while katrotz' income did not increase by the same amount. If things become more expensive and my wages don't increase as much I am going to cut some expenses.
- nottorp 10mo agoAre you prepared to donate 100% of your income to all those poor "content creators" then? Most people would like to have a roof over their heads and eat once in a while.
- hermannj314 10mo ago$22 a month for YouTube Premium is what I pay. Donating 100% of my income (a number larger than $22/mo) was not the issue being discussed in this post.
- nottorp 10mo agoIt was, because every "content provider" wants your subscription. How many links that you clicked on from HN today are asking for a subscription, and how many have you supported?
- Mawr 10mo agoSo you just manually skip the sponsor segments that most popular creators include in their videos or what?
- MarsIronPI 10mo agoSponsorblock exists and is absolutely marvelous. It's a crowdsourced database of sponsored segments + an add-on that queries this database and automatically skips the sponsor segments. There's also Sponsorblock plugins for MPV if that's more your thing.
- sowbug 10mo agoFamily memberships are not available for G Suite accounts. Sign in with a personal Google account or buy an individual membership to continue. All I wanted years ago was an email address with my vanity domain. Had I only known I was shunting my whole family into a Bizarro Elgoog world...
- binkHN 10mo agoGoogle really screwed everyone that used this; it was marketed towards families/small groups, and now everyone is forced into Google Workspace with massive breakage for family-like stuff. Thanks Google.
- soraminazuki 10mo agoYouTube Premium is a joke. Mass surveillance is one of the biggest threat to society that has come out of our industry, and is the biggest objection that many people have against modern adtech. So how does YouTube Premium address this? Well, first you login to Google and let them associate your real name to everything you do online, not just what you do on YouTube. Then, you give them your credit card info, home address, and phone number because why not? On top of that, you get to foot the bill for all of this. Uh, I'll continue to stay out of this.