I'm not surprised. YouTube has a constant stream of new material, curated to each user's exact interests. And more back catalogue than you could watch in a thousand lifetimes. It's definitely the service I use the most.
If you curate your Youtube experience decently by subbing to worthwhile creators only it's damn high quality content.
Never paying Youtube a single cent though. I'll consider donating to the creators directly (or buying from their store) if their efforts are sufficient.
This is the way. The key is to ignore the clickbait, politics, low-effort content, and sensational bullshit, and just go after stuff you really like.
There's even videos for every schedule. We seem to be back to 30-50 minute videos these days, but there are still some micro channels around. Like "Sandwiches of History", where every video is at most two minutes.
most of thier income comes from sources outside of youtube: brand promotion, promotions, patreon. all because youtube wants more share of ad revenue. also alot of youtubers eventually turns out to be pos in the end, or they become to preachy and political.
also alot of youtubers eventually turns out to be pos in the end
Massive generalisation there. I bet you could give me a list of five YouTubers who's that's happened to and I will guarantee it that I never subscribe to their content in the first place.
Thank god I only watch less popular channels and each one of them are great to hang with during streams. I've not seen trash youtube in a while. I only go to the my subs page anywah
And if you pay for Premium you get all features and zero ads. Many of the competitors have paid options that still include ads.
Whether or not Premium is worth it is another debate entirely, but the fact of the matter is that it is simply a better deal compared to other streaming services.
And if you pay for Premium you get all features and zero ads
I like that I get music too. I honestly don't mind my Premium subscription, I get decent value out of it for the amount of content I view. I just wish creators saw more of that money.
I think YouTube has said that Premium, formally Red, viewers do count more for ad revenue and other things like that for creators than free viewers. A streamer I follow I think said they were worth 5x for him
And a portion of your money goes to the creators you watch, and you get YouTube music included. I always say if you're gonna pay for one service, the one that makes the most sense is YouTube.
While I love the content on Youtube, I'd like to pay for no ads and I'd like to support the creators, I just can't bring myself to pay for a service where the UX is so catastrophically bad.
Search is basically non functional at this point.
Video quality has to be adjusted manually for each video to not get pixelated mess.
Even at 1080p the quality is barely better than DVD.
The app caches so little ahead that the slightest network interruption pauses playback.
Forced auto rotation makes you grab the device each time you return from full screen to the video list.
Subtitles have completely gone to shit and it's wild that in the age of forcing AI on everyone, that auto generated subtitles are still as bad as they are.
You're not wrong, but that is not the point I was making.
Adblocking YouTube is 100% the best option. I agree there. But if someone does want to pay for membership then YouTube is, by far, the best deal. Their competitors are absolutely horrendous.
It's when I ignore those suggestions that's honestly are in line with what I'm currently obsessed with is when YouTube started showing me videos I've already watched