• @pineapple_pizza
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    -17 months ago

    Not the vibe here by the look of the comments but for me YT premium is worth it. There’s a lot of great stuff on YouTube and it’s nice watching it all ad free in HD on my TV without ads. I realize hosting, streaming, and producing that content isn’t free and I don’t mind supporting it.

    • Mkengine
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      77 months ago

      Does that include Sponsorblock? Otherwise you still see ads, just from the content creators and not from YouTube.

    • hh93
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      47 months ago

      Do payouts for creators increase if people that watch them have premium? If not you are not buying it for the good content but for the service infrastructure

      • Victor
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        37 months ago

        you are […] buying it […] for the service infrastructure

        Which in and of itself is fine, I suppose. 👍 Depending on the price, of course.

      • @Spotlight7573@lemmy.world
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        17 months ago

        From what most creators I’ve seen who talk about it say, premium users are worth more than ad supported users. There are more ad supported users overall than paying premium subscribers though. Pushing people to a more predictable subscription service would benefit YouTube by making it less dependent on advertisers and not as affected by ad blockers so I can unfortunately see why they are considering changes like this.