I currently pay for YouTube premium but I'm strongly considering stopping again. For me it's a combination of prices creeping up (small part) and the worsening UX and engagement-bait (big part). It's the same reason I dropped Spotify a few years ago.
replyI don’t know. But most of the time when I don’t like a service, I don’t use it. I know that’s a crazy idea. I find YouTube like everything Google does a piss poor user experience. I’m forced to only use it to watch official AWS videos and those don’t have ads.
replyDoes it make the sponsor sections of the videos go away too?
replyNo, but SponsorBlock[0] is fantastic for that. I even have it setup on my home server[1] so it skips sponsor segments on my Apple TV, which is where we watch most of our YouTube.
reply[0] https://sponsor.ajay.app/ [1] https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV
It makes them less annoying. With premium if you hit the scrub forward button once it jumps directly to the end of the sponsor section
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