[moonchrome]

Yeah basically every time I see these threads I don't understand do these people think that running YouTube costs no money ?

~15€/mo and my family doesn't have to watch ads, we get YouTube music (not missing Spotify at all TBH) - that's well worth the money.

If you're a student or working low paid job I can understand - but on a site mostly for software professionals and startups ?

[Brian_K_White]

I don't understand paying ten cents for something that does what it wants instead of what I want.

I currently pay for premium to avoid ads myself, so you don't get to call me any freeloader names while I complain that despite paying I still have to suffer shorts and utter shit suggestions and embedded sponsor ads and having to answer a ridiculous 2fa prompt on my phone every single time just because I use firefox in medium private mode , and annoying things like hiding downvotes, and serious things like censoring and invalid dmca takedowns and algorithmic promiting/hiding, etc.

[lxgr]

I’d definitely pay 2-3$/month for Youtube if I could unbundle it from Youtube Music. I’m paying for Spotify and have no intention to change that (and I’ve given Youtube Music many chances).

[gymbeaux]

Spotify Family is taking about $20/month from me, but everyone else offers a subpar experience (especially Apple Music).

[w-ll]

I dont know if its changed, but you can only watch 1 thing on youtube at a time with the premium account, like not even with ads. it straight up stops the other video.

[moonchrome]

15€ is the family plan

[detuur]

Youtube certainly costs money to run. It doesn't cost as much as they're asking. Besides, Google has mercilessly injected itself in many more parts of my daily life, and they're making good money off of me. They're not paying me for that. So I'll consider it a debt paid to block all of their ads.

Now, if Youtube was an independent company, that'd be a different story. But it isn't, so µBlock it is.

[pitaj]

A good chunk of that YTP money goes to creators.

[Dylan16807]

That actually furthers the argument of "it doesn't cost that much", since creators get about ten times as much money from YTP viewers.

[gymbeaux]

man I hate to pull the "get a real job" quip but I would bet my life that most of those "creators" are going to end up getting a "real" job in the next few years. My sister makes a couple TikToks a month to review stuff and these companies pay her stupid amounts of money because of the number of followers she has. She lives in the West Village where she regularly hangs out with Malcolm Gladwell and David Blaine. She does something with art. Spain's bureau of tourism (I'm sure they have another name for it) paid to fly her and a couple of other "influencers" to Spain for a several-day tour of places Salvador Dali either lived or created something for. It's fantasy land, where company execs think things like that are a good use of money. MrBeast and Legal Eagle will be alright whether YouTube dies or not, but everyone else is screwed.