Ask HN: Has your YouTube usage decreased? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Has your YouTube usage decreased?

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Post by strzibny » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 4:33 AM UTC

Nope, I bought Premium and it's one of my fav subscriptions (comes with music, too). However, maybe I should watch less.

Re: Ask HN: Has your YouTube usage decreased?

#22

Post by squigz » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 4:34 AM UTC

uBlock Origin is still managing to block ads

Re: Ask HN: Has your YouTube usage decreased?

#23

Post by keiferski » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 4:34 AM UTC

No, I signed up for premium a few months ago and happily pay the $20/month. YouTube has literally millions of hours of high-quality interviews, lectures, courses, etc. and paying is worth every penny.

If you find yourself watching low-quality videos, that’s a problem with your selection of content, not the platform itself.

Re: Ask HN: Has your YouTube usage decreased?

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Post by smitty1e » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 4:34 AM UTC

bavell wrote: post #20

smitty1e wrote: post #12

No, I mainly go to YT for specific song URLs to share on X, or personalities like Rick Beato.

+1 for Rick Beato, great content. Elizabeth Zharoff over at The Charismatic Voice is another lovely YT music personality.

Virgin Rock is also fun.

Re: Ask HN: Has your YouTube usage decreased?

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Post by skytbest » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 4:35 AM UTC

gavinhoward wrote: post #16

Yes, absolutely. But this is intentional avoidance on my part. I don't want Google to ban my Google account because I use an adblocker on YouTube.

Has that been happening?

Re: Ask HN: Has your YouTube usage decreased?

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Post by EvanAnderson » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 4:36 AM UTC

Nope. Not logged-on to a Google account, no persistent cookies and restart the browser fairly frequently, and the particular concoction of ad blockers I'm using (and reluctant to share) is still working well.

Re: Ask HN: Has your YouTube usage decreased?

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Post by jes5199 » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 4:36 AM UTC

I mostly watch tiktok

Re: Ask HN: Has your YouTube usage decreased?

#28

Post by wolrah » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 4:37 AM UTC

I've had Youtube Premium since it was Google Play Music All Access, so I'm happily paying the $7.99 grandfathered rate to not even have ads to block, plus I get music along with it.

Multiple creators I follow have confirmed that YTP views are worth more to them than ad-supported views so it's a win-win in my book, the cost of one single strong drink at the bar per month to not see ads while also better supporting the people creating the stuff I want to watch.

Re: Ask HN: Has your YouTube usage decreased?

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Post by irjustin » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 4:37 AM UTC

No, I purchase premium for the family and my daughters to have no ads and music.

I like the platform and being able to get high quality long form content for my hobbies- coffee and particular streamers for a game I play.

Re: Ask HN: Has your YouTube usage decreased?

#30

Post by cmod » Sat, Nov 25, 2023, 4:37 AM UTC

YouTube Premium has to be the best pay-for deal of any service. I'm frankly surprised by how much adblocking talk there is when YouTube comes up on HN. YouTube is doing what I want all services to do: total elimination of ads as part of Premium. The result is it's one of my favorite spaces online, and feels miraculous in the quality and quantity of content (docs, interviews, how-tos, history, music, archival footage).

Grateful for YouTube and enthusiastic to pay for premium.