I was a loyal, paying customer for years. I paid for the high def-and commercial free. Then the content began to splinter. I ended up with $80+/month to watch some of what I wanted in 4k without commercials… so no, no a couple coffees. Most services you pay for have ads still. Then you pay more just to get 4k. It is never ending and so I decided to just pirate again. Oops.

I don’t have a problem paying for ad free services - but why should we pay 3x or more of the revenue generated by the free tier? YouTube premium is $12/mo… there’s no way I would be watching $12 worth of ads a month at my current usage without adblock.

I’m definitely watching enough YouTube that $12/mo is a no-brainer to get many minutes of my life back.

For me it's that the creators I watch get more money if I pay than watch ads and I get a better service (and extra services on top)

Pricing is based on notions of value. The question is: why would you pay $12 to skip ads in the official app without any more fiddling? Many of us take that offer.

> expecting everything to be

decent.

The same naily clip repeated a hundred times per session?!

Nah, I'll just stop using YT if they want to do this.

Ya lol, parent must work for one of these inane companies. I just cancelled my YT premium, despite loving it actually, because I honestly would rather prove a point.

I'm not even mad at them, it's just not personally worthwhile for me to watch ads. Might've considered YouTube Premium if they were less annoying about it. So if they don't want me as a user, I'll leave.

Ya I bought it a year ago in an all out effort to excise ads from my life. But I still have my pi-hole, that will do for now, goodbye YT!

YouTube Premium is not available in some countries in the world. More than that, even just traveling to a country where it's not available is enough to lose the YouTube Premium features.

I would pay to be a respected customer. I will not pay to be a product.