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by holysantamaria 953 days ago
I think everyone should pay for Youtube Premium, there should be no free tiers. And we should ban sponsorship too, a creator should be banned if the content is sponsored. It lowers the quality of the content, the user experience and, worse imo, introduces biasis and conflict of interests. Also mandatoring a paid plan could help get rid of all those scam bots. Also creators could get paid more if everyone was a Premium user.

There is no free lunch. At some point you have to pay people for their work. Not paying is slavery. Either pay with your attention span or pay with money to get an adless experience.

The Premium plan gives you more features (and a music streaming that would cost you 10$ in and of itself if you were to use another music streaming service).

I am glad Youtube takes this issue seriously.