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Re:YouTube Says It Has More Than 100M Premium and Music Subs... by mrweasel on Thursday February 01, 2024 @03:39PM (#39221117)
YouTube ran a "YouTube Premium without Music" deal in Denmark for about a year. You couldn't "downgrade" to it, nor did they really promote it in any way. In the end they just went "Well, guess no one wants that" and cancelled the program. It was basically impossible to buy, of cause it failed.

I would have preferred Apple Music, or some other service, because the YouTube Music interface is apparently heavily inspired by Snapchat and impossible to navigate. But given the racket Google runs, I'll just live with YouTube Music, because I'm not paying for two music services.

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Re:YouTube Says It Has More Than 100M Premium and Music Subs... by al_borland on Thursday February 01, 2024 @04:53PM (#39221988)
This is disappointing to hear. I remember reading about that deal and was excited for it to be available to me.

I pay for Apple Music. It annoys me that I pay for two services, but I really didn't like YouTube Music in my brief interaction with it. If I want to get down to 1 music service, I think I'd sooner drop YouTube Premium. I've been thinking about doing that just to stop me from going down so many rabbit holes on that site. I waste way too much time there.

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