[lacrimacida]

In the same boat here. But they couldn’t care less, the masses is what they’re after. I came to and been using invidio.us to listen to lectures without any video, a feture that works on Iphones with the screen turned off. Not sure whether apple or google are the ones who don’t allow for that.

[squeaky-clean]

Screen off only works for premium subscriptions. I hate it, but someone has made a good point to me once that advertisers are probably not okay paying the same amount and not having video show for their ads. So Google would either have to build support for a separate category of audio-only ads, and those ads would pay out less. Instead, they just only offer the feature to ad-free subscribers.

[cmgbhm]

Google. It’s not a problem with the default video element. The engineer that into the app and mobile then that’s the primary pitch for premium

[gymbeaux]

Just like BMW tying the heated seats to a monthly subscription.