Okay I'll bite. I pay for YouTube Premium and likely will continue to. I rarely watch it on my phone or on a computer, about 95% of my viewing is on a chromecast with android tv or directly from tizen on my samsung tv; so besides some now defunct sideloaded apks on the chromecast, I'm stuck with the native app. And overall yt accounts for about 75-80% of my households streaming on a tv.
I hate ads enough to hand google my money directly. And then part (most, according to google at least) of that goes to the creators that we watch. I think it's a fair enough trade, but happy to hear conflicting opinions!
overall yt accounts for about 75-80% of my households streaming on a tv
By all means, you do you...but if I were watching that much yt, I'd probably want to upgrade to a Shield or something else I could slap
SmartTube on and stop the recurring/increasing payments.
Nvidia shield is bizarrely expensive in my country. Like 50% more expensive than the most expensive Apple TV 4K. Also the method you describe means creators don’t get a cent either. But definitely worth looking into smarttube if I can support creators directly, thanks.
Wonder when they’ll go after the legacy subscriptions. Mine’s still the $9.99 individual plan from Google Play Music days and it’s evolution. I haven’t seen anything yet and hopefully won’t for a while longer. Although, it’s just a matter of time sadly; gotta get those increased profits.
We get 3 months at our current rate and then they’re bumping us up to this new price.
“Existing subscribers will start to see the new pricing with their next billing cycle. An upcoming email will explain the changes. Those who were grandfathered in five years ago (with Google Play Music and/or YouTube Red) will get three additional months at their current rate.”
Oh I agree and probably should’ve said that. YT Music is still inferior compared to it. Only upside that I like is that I’m able to upload my own music into it. Instead of having to use my CDs for things that aren’t on a streaming services.
I wound up moving entirely to Plex and it's janky Tidal integration because of that use case. Too much local/obscure music out there to not be able to add my own tracks.
Make sure you stay on top of keeping your card updated, I was on the intro price for family plan for years but got a replacement card and forgot to update Google and had to re subscribe at the regular rate.
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