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Youtube is harassing us! (gregtech.eu)
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[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I pay for Premium for a few different reasons:

  1. I don't need to even think about fighting with ad block blockers.
  2. I also get YouTube Music, so I no longer need to pay for Spotify.
  3. Premium views pay creators more than regular views.
[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There is clearly a value proposition or no one would pay for it. I personally don't like to reward any company using the pay to not be inconvenienced model

A lot of people would rather fight adblockers (idk, literally never been an issue for me), use xManager (oh right spotify is free) , Pay creators you like through patreon (or buy their shitty amazon links or merch or whatever)

Premium is just rewarding youtube for making their platform worse in order to sell premium and fuck that noise.

[–] WldFyre@lemm.ee 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Free Spotify blows, though

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 4 points 1 month ago

For me it’s a way to help support content creators, along with donations/merch, although admittedly not having to even try to block the ads is a nice bonus.

I wouldn’t necessarily call myself a YouTube fan, and it will be something I continue to evaluate.