[knowriju]

What's funny about this comment is that YouTube is absolutely usable if you pay for YouTube Premium, but most won't. Goes to show, while everyone whines about how bad an ad based business model is, noone has any alternate strategy that works at scale, - especially one that's not exclusionary to people from the developing world who can't afford to pay for every single thing on the internet.

[bobdvb]

I got YouTube Premium Family and it's so great.

Plus, I am supporting content creators better while avoiding ads.

[kennyadam]

It's crazy that people will watch hours of YouTube content every day, streaming HD video with almost zero buffering, features like auto-generated subtitles that can then be automatically translated into other languages, essentially unlimited storage so the videos they like are around forever (copyright claims and the like are a separate issue), you can embed the videos onto your own site for free, you can use them to livestream... all this and you'll never see a single advert if you pay for YouTube Premium. It's fantastic, but most people are so entitled that they seem offended that YouTube would ask for money to provide this service. I know premium does nothing about the insane amount of sponsorship slop every creator stuffs into their videos now, but maybe if people stopped using every possible tool they can find to block YouTube adverts and paid for premium, YouTube would pay their creators more and they wouldn't need to constantly lie about drinking AG1 every day and the quality of raycon headphones.

[bobdvb]

YouTube is a modern engineering miracle, and yet it's so accessible.

People complain so much and don't appreciate what they have.