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I don't mind paying for YouTube Premium.
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this post was submitted on 25 Sep 2024
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I paid for Google Music back before it was YouTube Music. It came with YouTube Red (I think they still called it that at the time). I'm still paying for premium because no ads is important to me. Also, according to now ancient videos by Hank Green, YouTube Red made a considerable, good impact for the content creators and I don't care that other video platforms are cheaper because I'm not watching random videos, I'm following particular channels. I can almost never get the same content somewhere else. I'm locked in because of that. If my channels put their content on other sites, I'd drop YouTube in a heartbeat. If every video went on patreon and not just the exclusive videos, I'd drop YouTube in a heartbeat. I believe in the patreon model and am not a member of a single YouTube channel.
I wish YouTube understood that they are not the content I watch, they are between me and the content I watch. Maybe then the relationship could be more respectful than ads on the pause screen.