This is no joke. I used to watch lots of youtube on background when I had a desktop with multiple screens. I’d put mostly the news.

Now I’m on the road and I have a laptop and an ipad. I’ve got no extra screen and the extra tab will be expensive on my battery. I tried the iPad YouTube app but I’d get an ad for every 4-5 minutes.

After a couple weeks i stopped watching YouTube altogether. I was considering getting a premium subscription but found out later that I don’t miss it that much.

I think the $5/month will be used to stream bitcoin to podcasts over lightening.