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I'm using YouTube and its music app so much that Premium feels mostly fair
For now. Maybe. But look at Prime Video, that offered services for Amazon Prime Customers. Then put stuff behind paid "channels". Then started adding Ads to the start of a movie or episode. And it will water it down even further. Or Spotify that had ads every few songs. Then 2 ads. Then 2 very long ads. Then more ad breaks. Then You bought premium because the ads got more and more annoying. Now you are ad free. Except all the banners. Except the paid promoted Releases that get pushed in all the popular Playlists. Except ads during podcasts. Except "AI shuffle" that mixes in promoted songs.
The same will happen to YT Premium. Bit by bit ads will be smuggled in. I mean.. right now they promote "Premium light" after (what I've found for European prices) raising prices for premium and family tiers.
Honestly YT Premium has been a thing for a long time and it's done the opposite. There used to be exclusive shows that were made public later. (i.e. they were made public the day after i paid for my subscription)
I like YT Premium (and Twitch Turbo for that matter) for two reasons: they support creators (wayy higher CPM than ad-supported viewers), and they support the platform in a way that makes them less dependent from advertisers. If more people subsribed to YT Premium, their incentives would lean towards paid members and away from advertisers and music labels.
Having said that, i have ethical problems with both Twitch and Youtube, hence why i don't subscribe to either and subscribe to Nebula instead. It'll do until PeerTube becomes usable.
And? If they do that I'll just leave. It's not like someone forces me to subscribe
Same tbh, but when i look at my wage and how rent gobbles up 70% while groceries take another 20%...i cannot afford it.
Tough luck on them because i will just use it ad free for free. Just because my wage is ass doesn't make me less of a human where it gives them the right to waste my time inside my own private living space.
I paid for this space and i pay for this internet connection, i'm the one who's in charge here.