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If YouTube premium was $4.99 a month it'd be worth a consideration. But then again adblocking is free and privacy respecting
I'm not gonna pay for a service that harvest and sell my data
I agree
Exactly. Premium is basically twice what I'm willing to pay. I've considered going premium multiple times, and have multiple times suffered sticker shock and backed away.
Family plan split 6 ways among friends and family roughly comes out to $5/month
Pfft you think JCDenton has 6 friends and family to split the cost with?
I actually think YouTube premium is worth its price. Spotify is the same price, but you get less.
I want ad free YouTube but don't want YouTube music. I don't want to pay for extra shit that I won't be using.
I use Spotify way more than I use YouTube. Spotify does one thing and it does it extremely well.
If Spotify added unlimited free Uber eats delivery tomorrow and bumped up the price to $20 a month, then sure, it'd be a good deal but I wouldn't want any of that.
You see: the difference between us is that you see YouTube Music as an extra. I see the other features as an extra since I only really use YouTube music.
Sure, it sucked about 2 years ago but it has become really good in the last few months.
If you don't use Spotify and use YouTube a lot, YouTube premium is worth it.
So why don't they split YouTube and YouTube music subs? It can save people like us money
They are somehow already split. I only subscribe to YouTube music.
When you subscribe to YouTube Premium, which is more expensive than the YTM only sub, you also get complete access to YTM included.
Probably because YT Music isn't much more than a different UI to actual YT