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Re:Why I Work on Ads by anchpop on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:37AM (#27064862)
My family pays for youtube premium (https://www.youtube.com/premium/family), it's $18/month for 5 people. They also get access to "youtube music premium", which is basically a spotify clone (so unlimited music with no ads). It's quite a good deal imo
Re:Why I Work on Ads by stevenicr on Friday May 07, 2021 @12:49AM (#27072285)
thanks for this info - I was not aware - it does not work for my six - as two are here and two west of town and two south of town.. some fosters.. so not same household.. but glad this is a thing.

The other day to prevent a young one from replaying the same soundtrack over and over via youtube - (bandwidth repeatedly counting against and lots of ads for the same repeated songs oh my) - I just popped over to amazon and bought the album and popped it onto a usb stick for them.

I picked up a couple of gift cards for their bday this week - one of them was a google play card - then I remembered G killed the music section of the play store, so I put it back and got an amazon card instead.

that premium would be a great deal if we had one more in the household here. we've got three chromecasts - two with the google tv - but not the gtv plan - sheesh the ads via youtube with that are a drain, and I wonder about the compression for music - but they still use them for convenience and the other things like discovery+ which is affordable.

Oh if only they would plex-like into a win7 box on the network and pull my collection of mp3s.

Maybe all this is going in a good direction. Fingers crossed.

Re:Why I Work on Ads by dado3212 on Thursday May 06, 2021 @12:39PM (#27065834)
Yeah, this option exists and most people don’t take it. Pretty clear argument against this model.
Re:Why I Work on Ads by zaat on Thursday May 06, 2021 @02:03PM (#27067006)
No it isn't, it means I pay to see those videos without ads, but I have to be logged in and they get to track me.