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Used VPN for cheaper YouTube Premium? Congrats, your subscription has been canceled (www.androidauthority.com)
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[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Ads are bad (I agree).

Paying for things is bad.

Then what's left? YouTube should somehow be ad free and free of cost for the user forever and ever? Who's gonna pay for the enormous costs of operating the service?

People are going to start yelling at me about capitalism and enshitiffication. Both of which cause problems, but what do you propose here? Magic?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I propose YouTube make a MUCH better premium product and price it correctly. Paying for things is fine. Paying for things to get crappier? Na

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How is YouTube getting crappier for me as a paying customer? I feel like it hasn't really changed in years.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Glad you enjoy it. Keep doing your thing. But are you seriously deaf to the rising chorus of complaints about YouTube? This thread contains many examples of youtube's enshitification over the few couple years. Your question feels disingenuous at best to me

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Name one complaint, other than blocking people with ad blockers. How has the actual product changed?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Price increases

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Increased family plan sharing restrictions

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Inability to remove shorts from homescreen (decision reversed due to consumer outcry)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The worsening of recommendations/algorithm pointing to more crap content

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

4k premium only (decision reversed due to consumer outcry)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The death of Google music

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Inability to purchase only YouTube music

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 months ago

I'm not opposed to paying for online services in general, I'm just not going to pay them to make the site worse with every update. (Plus I kinda categorically refuse to give Google money at this point.)

[–] [email protected] -5 points 6 months ago

I'll still call someone a clown for paying even if I'm able to acknowledge that someone has to hold the bag. Just ain't gonna me or hopefully anyone I care about.