I pay the equivalent of £2 every month for YouTube premium in the UK using a non-UK account.

I don't feel guilty about this because I only want YT-Premium for blocking the ads, I don't need the music, videos etc that comes with it.

Use a VPN and sign up through Argentina. It's around £2/ month then, have been doing that for a year.

Assuming the creator has the option to do this, you would both be better off if you blocked YT ads and just sent them some money directly

The YouTube Premium part paid out to creators (by proportional watchtime) is surprisingly high at 55%, especially if you consider that they use remainder to also pay for music licensing.

You can get it pretty cheap using a VPN, I think to turkey?

I just don't like the algorithmic sorting that YT Premium does for me. I keep losing the stuff I want to watch, and it keeps ramming crap in front of me.

I tried the free month, and ran screaming. No way.

I have no problems at all, paying for streaming (I pay for quite a few channels). I just didn't like the YT Premium user experience. I suspect, if I was a lot younger, I might like it more.

> I keep losing the stuff I want to watch

Why not use the "Watch later" feature to add it to your queue? I use that feature all the time.

YouTube premium doesn't do any special sorting

Huh. I must be talking about some other service, then.

> Nevermind

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Does YouTube premium also include ad free YouTube music like it does in the USA? I don't subscribe to a music service like Spotify because my YouTube premium subscription covers both.

Sometimes a friend (you doesn't subscribe to YouTube premium) will show me a YouTube video on their device. I find it impossible to watch YouTube without a subscription. I don't understand how the average user can tolerate the amount of ads.

I'm sort of happy that average joe shmoe can tolerate using youtube with the ads, because if everyone couldn't tolerate them as much as I can't tolerate them, then youtube would not exist.

Even if you pay for youtube you get the sponsor spiels within the videos.

I wouldn't use youtube at all without sponsorblock.

You mean the feature literally called YouTube Premium Lite? ;) https://www.youtube.com/premiumlite

Another option is to just VPN to Turkey when setting it up (Can be done with a UK account and UK card) and then it's about $1.5/month.

When I click on that link in the UK, I just get a “this offer is not available” error. Seems like they don’t yet offer such a thing here.

Ah I see! Might be US exclusive. Anyway the VPN solution works well in all countries.

> Might be US exclusive.

It's not available in the US either. The latest list I can find says it's being tested in Belgium, Finland, Norway, Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, and Luxembourg.

When doing those vpn tricks to get lower pricing you run the risk of services terminating your account and that's something a lot of people can't afford when it comes to their google accounts