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YouTube Premium is the best $10 I spend per month. Nowhere else can I consistently find the sort of niche content that interests me.
by gradus_ad 6mo ago
YouTube Premium is the best $10 I spend per month. Nowhere else can I consistently find the sort of niche content that interests me.
- dominotw 6mo agoi judge ppl who dont have youtube premium as a not curious ppl :D
- dfansteel 6mo agoThere are problems with YouTube and the library is free. https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp01dz010t34x https://dataspace.princeton.edu/handle/88435/dsp01dz010t34x
- nkrisc 6mo agoIs there anything you can watch on premium that can’t watch on YouTube for free?
- loco5niner 6mo agoI think not, mostly just removes ads, and a few other features
- dominotw 6mo agoits more about what you dont want to watch
- lotsofpulp 6mo agoI judge people who watch that much youtube as susceptible to disinformation.
- flohofwoe 6mo agois there a difference between youtube premium and youtube-with-adblocking?
- eru 6mo agoIf you don't watch on mobile, is there anything that YouTube Premiums gives you that an ad-blocker doesn't?
- twobitshifter 6mo agoYouTube music, higher quality video, and the ‘jump ahead’ feature to skip portions of a video that others usually skip.
- Melonai 6mo agoAlso, though not a benefit to you in particular, apparently any creator you watch with Premium gets a way bigger payout for your view. Only heard about this anecdotally but it seems to track.
- butlike 6mo agoYou can do this manually on the free plan. Mouse over the playhead and you'll see a graph. You can click the highest point in the graph which is where most people clicked through to.
- worldsayshi 6mo agoI find YT to be very sloppy nowadays. Not so much AI content as content that is over-optimized for clicks and revenue. 80% filler and maybe 20% substance. I should probably de-algoify my YT experience.
- bonoboTP 6mo agoYT is huge, and there is plenty of good stuff. You just need to subscribe to good channels that are not so easy to find. And block the clickbait channels when they appear.
- worldsayshi 6mo agoI wish we could collectively move over to some decentralized alternative. Even if we make sure to disable the bad parts, relying on these few actors that have such revenue optimized and enshitification-prone business models does not sit right. Although decentralization by itself does probably not protect from this trap in the long run.
- johnnyanmac 6mo agoNothing is really stopping us the consumer. But given that YouTube seems to be the only one in its "medium" (compared to Twitch and TikTok being different formats) that pays creators, it's hard to ask all of them to impact their potential livelihoods. Nebula as a premium service seems to be the best in terms of paying creators and keeping non-perverse incentives. But Nebula is for very specific kinds of content.
- dzhiurgis 6mo agoAsk Mode is pretty great. Wish they’d just summarise all the video titles for me so I could avoid bait.
- aghuang 6mo agoI judge ppl who are brainwashed enough to pay for youtube premium and watch videos based on their thumbnails.
- malnourish 6mo agoThat's your right; I consider myself a very curious person but I never watch YouTube (I have watched less than 10 minutes in 2026). I prefer to read news and information. What little exposure to YouTube personalities and editing styles I've had annoys me to no end.
- eudamoniac 6mo agoVideo is a terrible learning format for most information. I actually judge people who learn primarily through video as having very low information parsing throughput.
- 2OEH8eoCRo0 6mo agoI prefer newpipe for $0/mo
- philipphutterer 6mo agoI prefer Tubular with Sponsorblock
- kmarc 6mo agoDo you know how it compares to LibreTube[1]? For the SponsorBlock integration; it works well for me, but I kinda miss the newpipe interface. [1]: https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube https://github.com/libre-tube/LibreTube
- philipphutterer 6mo agoI've never tried LibreTube. I am used to the new pipe interface and had all my subscriptions managed their so the move to Tubular was easy.
- thousand_nights 6mo agonowhere near comparable experience if you want to seamlessly use your YT account across a TV + phone + computer i'd rather pay the $10 than pay with my time by being an ad-block whack-a-mole diagnostician
- ovi256 6mo ago> ad-block whack-a-mole diagnostician that is being done as open source community efforts now: NewPipe for mobile, SmartTube for smart TVs etc. All you have to do is update them once in a while
- cbdevidal 6mo agoFor those of us who are too cheap to pay the subscription: On my iPhone I almost never see YTube ads. I don’t use the YTube app and instead I install Chrome and watch YT that way. I lose notifications—which is perfect for me, since I don’t want many notifications on my phone anyway. This might also work in Safari but I haven’t tested it.
- scrollop 6mo agoMore channels are fighting for attention though, so finding more channels are "creating buzz" or "news" based on mediocre information ie. taking things out of context and making unwarranted conclusions or blowing things out of proportions for clickbait titles. "This changes everything!!" Getting youtube fatigue.
- bonoboTP 6mo agoI heavily use the "Not interested" and the "Do not recommend this channel" options a lot and don't click on clickbait, and use the DeArrow extension, and this way my front page looks quite good.
- wrxd 6mo agoAt this point you’re doing almost as much work as if you handpicked a few channels and put them in your RSS reader. Algorithms are sold as “curation is hard, the algorithm does it for you” but getting the algorithm to do a good job is actually a lot of work
- bonoboTP 6mo agoNo, I often get nice recommendations from the long tail, like interesting academic talks or tinkerer channels, videos sometimes with only a few hundred views or even fewer.
- nandomrumber 6mo agoThat’s not an argument against the comment you responded to. If I just took any random 20 creators I’m subscribed to on YouTube, the premium membership fee, which includes YT Music, is more valuable than any of the other streaming services. The only other streaming service I’ve been a paying member even longer than YouTube is di.fm I also occasionally pay for a few months or bassdrive.com and or soma.fm For movies / series, I’m back to sharing.
- jaapz 6mo agoDisabled recommendations. Disabled comments (firefox plugin). Use subscriptions page as the homepage (firefox plugin). Only subscribe to channels that interest me (and aren't annoying like that).
- jasondigitized 6mo agoFully agree. There is so much good content and being ad-free is just a really great experience.
- moffkalast 6mo agouBlock origin + SponsorBlock has a much better price to performance ratio imo.
- saint_yossarian 6mo agoI'd pay that, but it's about $22 in my country...
- joshstrange 6mo agoYouTube Premium is the best ~~$11.99~~ ~~$13.00~~ $15.17 I spend per month... I actually don't care that much about YouTube content and it's not a place I go and hang out, but I'll pay just about anything to avoid seeing ads. Yes, I know ad blockers exist, but getting them to work on laptop, phone, Apple TV directly, Apple TV via casting, etc is not easy or even possible in some cases. If I had to guess I watch ~1hr of YouTube a week, if I watch more than that I'm watching longer-form content, but mostly it's because everyone hosts their videos there so the 3-7min here and there add up to ~1hr (tutorials, product launch, help/documentation video, etc). As much as it pains me to fork over $15+/mo for that, I hate being interrupted by ads more.
- Markoff 6mo agoFirefox + uBlock Origin on smartphone and desktop = no ads (though I personally prefer Vivaldi on desktop, but for simplicity just recommend Firefox) SmartTube on Android TV has no ads and skip sponsors so all you need to remember are two apps FF (+uBO) and SmartTune on TV, you install it once and don't care anymore, comparably difficult with payment for YT
- _DeadFred_ 6mo agoI paid for Youtube Premium. I was still shown ads on embedded youtube videos, and it was changed so that the ads pop up so quick I can click initially and go to the youtube site (where I won't be shown the ads) before the ad starts. I switched to an ad blocker because that was so adversarial on youtube's part in order bypass the 'feature' I paid for.
- 01jonny01 6mo agoWhich sites were you viewing the embeds on?
- burnt-resistor 6mo ago$30 USD/mo for YouTube Premium Family ): They totally made the free experience miserable as shit like airlines do for coach class.