Makes me really happy that I recently subscribed to Nebula. I had YouTube Premium for a while but the experience kept getting worse. They removed email subscriptions, added more and more ads for "premium features" that I wasn't interested in and kept making offline downloads a pain (YouTube DL is usually a better experience). On top of that the recommendations are awful and search results have random unrelated ads for "recommended videos" inline with the thing I was actually searching for. At some point I felt mistreated enough and stopped my subscription.

Nebula is great. It feels like they are actually just trying to allow me to watch videos, no nonsense. I have found a few bugs and the support team is nice and responsive. I can't imagine what else I would want.

Do you use their app?

I used Nebula for a while a year or two ago, but their Android app was almost unusably bad, so I cancelled my subscription. I'm curious if it's any better now.

I do use their app. About 50/50 Firefox and the Android app.

There is a pretty annoying bug regarding Chromecast (opening a link when already connected to a device doesn't work properly) that I reported but apparently they are working on it. But other than that I haven't had any issues.

See also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35892512

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I got tired of keeping up the arms race with ad blockers. So now I just pay them. So, it worked on me I guess. I watch youtube more than Netflix and I pay for that every month too.

What effort is required on your part to keep up? I have had uBlock Origin for years and it keeps itself updated. I don't think I ever see ads.

I would be happy if Youtube Premium contained some form of sponsor blocking/skipping. I don't wanna pay not to see ads, and then being fed them anyway.

YouTube ReVanced is magic and has better features than Premium.

Every other thread I see has a group of people promoting YouTube premium. It must be good or there's some good marketing at play.