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I believe you can get it for $9.99 or something like that, if you don't need YouTube Music. The product is called YouTube Premium Lite.
Only exists in a few countries https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/2/22605455/youtube-premium-l...
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Because ads are a parasite on society. Because their lying and psychological manipulation should be illegal. Because most of this tracking and privacy invasion mania is the ad industry's fault.
If there's a new product useful for me that I should know about, I'll find out here, in review sites, or when I visit a store, thank you very much.
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Because YouTube ads like all ads are annoying. For the couple of times a month I end up watching something on YouTube by luck, why would I care about “creators”. I don’t use Spotify.
If you don’t care about the creators then why watch the content? Sure, the subscription might not make sense to you, but either the content has some value or not. The ads are the value exchange. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like the ads either.
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> Adblocking Google is morally right. All ads should be blocked. I do not consume ads, and am not interested in paying a ransom to hide them.
If you don't consume ads, please do not use any ad-supported service, that's the easiest thing to do.
Ad companies have been tilting the agreement attention for content ever more in their favor in aggressive and privacy harming ways. They long ago broke any moral standing.
The content creators need to seek a better deal, they’re getting screwed by Google too.
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No, they're not going to leave money on the table. Eventually you'll be seeing ads too. This is just a hook period. I don't understand how we as a culture haven't learned this already. This is at least the fourth or fifth generation of this with media. How things actually work should be common sense by now.
I've been using premium for almost a decade now, since before it was rebranded from YouTube red. I'll let you know when it's safe to remove your tinfoil hat. Oh and I'll be downloading my videos for offline viewing and listening to ad free unrestricted music as well.
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> I don't get why people block ads on YouTube, robbing individual creators. It's not like hulu or Amazon where you are just robbing megacorp and predatorial studios. How much does YouTube/Google/Alphabet get from each ad view and how much of that goes to the actual uploader of the video? If the ratio is less than ~50%, I wouldn't feel too bad about it. Secondly, not every could afford the $10 price, but still doesn't…
I just subscribe to YouTube premium to support my favorite application out there. I learn so much from the people who spend hours and hours making videos every month that I am more than happy to pay a measly $13 or whatever it is every month to YouTube.