[gruez]

...or use youtube-dl (or newpipe on your phone), which does the same for free

[Jonnax]

Yeah there's a cheaper way. But like using Spotify versus ripping CDs or piracy, the convenience of the tool is the value.

[catalogia]

Convenience seems to be a slippery concept. From my perspective, the convenience of mpv+youtube-dl cannot be beat. Neither the official web player nor the official mobile applications have the features I expect or desire.

For instance, I use text-to-speech to read aloud the subtitles of foreign language content. With mpv that's straight forward, but I wouldn't even know where to start with getting that to work using any of the official frontends of youtube.

[Crash0v3rid3]

So pirating videos and not supporting creators is the solution?

I understand the complaints some folks have but this isn't the solution.

[popup21]

+1 for youtube-dl nifty little cli