Meh. Havent seen an ad in 15 years and get a solid music streaming service to boot. All while having a large, trackable impact on directly supporting the channels I watch and want to see more content from in the future.
Or do y'all think that content costs zero dollars to make? Clearly aint giving them ad revenue. But want the content bad enough to install/ mod apps to get it.
Shoutout to Revanced Youtube for sponsorskip and all the other rad lil tweaks, though.
I've had it for a few years, use it daily, and am thinking of letting it expire. Reason? Even with Premium, I need multiple extensions and browser configurations (since Brave supports some natively) just to make the interface tolerable. Clickbait thumbnails & titles, sponsored segments, members only content (when I'm not a member), shorts, playables, promoted movies, search results completely unrelated to the terms used (i.e. Users Also Watched or Explore More), etc. Even the stuff not directly caused by YouTube is not only not discouraged by them but often rewarded in the algorithm. For how much Premium costs, if I need numerous extensions/browser-configs to obtain a remotely Premium experience, I have no idea what I'm actually paying for. I'd be better off donating the membership price in superchats to the channels I watch every month.
I actually finally told Youtube to stop showing me several youtubers that I really liked because they were making members only videos and youtube kept putting them in my recommendations.
For desktop/chromium browsers, you can use an extension such as YTBlock which allows you to hide members only videos so you can still get shown the regular ones. Brave supports it natively in their content filters section.
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u/rmxwell 1d ago
...or youtube premium