• CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    The number of videos I watch on YouTube amounts to maybe 3 hours a week.

    At best.

    On average maybe 20-30 minutes.

    I’m not willing to pay $13 $9 a month for that.

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      6 hours ago

      What? 13? a month?, wtf is Google thinking 🤔, I’m really surprised of the price, I have been blocking add for years and it’s been long since researched for the price, damn.

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          5 hours ago

          1 dollar a month would be a great deal, we are getting to the point that the private data they are gathering from us is not enough to pay for the services.

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            4 hours ago

            The problem with YouTube Premium is that it’s not differentiated from NewPipe or Vanced.

            You don’t get a better algorithm. You don’t get higher quality. You don’t get faster speeds.

            You literally get a service that is provided by third party apps.

            Until they start baking in ads with their content, YouTube Premium is essentially a paid service for people who don’t run adblock or don’t want to use a third party tool.

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      8 hours ago

      YouTube is probably 90% of our streaming consumption.

      Combine that with the music streaming, background play, video downloading, and ability to access it on hotel smart TVs.

      Plus it supports the creators I like.

      Really makes YTP a no-brainer for us.

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        6 hours ago

        You can get background play via using FireFox, video downloading with extensions or other programs, and play anything on hotel TVs with a video cable from a laptop or any other device. All without paying the great beast.

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          5 hours ago

          I’m not going to implement multiple workarounds on our android and apple phones and plug a laptop into a tv every time I want to watch YouTube on it. YTP is well worth my few dollars a month.