| ▲ | stephen_cagle 4 days ago |
| Wait a minute, why is mine $13.99 a month? But agree, totally worth it if you at all value your time. |
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| ▲ | ternus 4 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| If you don't care about music or background play, and all you want is to eliminate ads, YouTube Premium Lite is $8/month. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/15968883 |
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| ▲ | amanzi 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Interesting - hadn't heard of this option before. But I see that "Premium Lite" is not available in NZ... https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6307365?sjid=92752... | | | |
| ▲ | BLKNSLVR 4 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I still can't believe that they paywalled the ability for the video to keep playing when the screen is turned off. Probably a business decision that's made them a lot of money, well done. Thank goodness for ReVanced. | | |
| ▲ | cons0le 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | >I still can't believe that they paywalled the ability for the video to keep playing when the screen is turned off. That's why I will never pay, no matter how much people glaze yt premium. I distinctly remember the day they took that simple feature away. uBlock and Vanced work fine, and it's also not hard to download to my media server for offline I don't want to reward a company for shitty practices. What are they even doing at youtube besides changing the UI every 3 months and stuffing AI where it isn't wanted/needed. At the bare minimum they need to enable the ability to blacklist entire channels, like I can easily do on my home setup. And ban AI videos without a label. Then they can have my $8 | |
| ▲ | charcircuit 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | It's only for music where background play isn't supported for free. | | |
| ▲ | jayknight 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Is this true? Nothing will play for me with my screen off. | | |
| ▲ | BLKNSLVR 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | No. What you describe is correct: No background play via the yt app unless you pay. | |
| ▲ | SoftTalker 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Yes YouTube Premium will play with the screen off (using the app. No idea about using a browser). | | |
| ▲ | cuu508 3 days ago | parent | next [-] | | In a browser, it works even without Youtube Premium :-) Firefox mobile, m.youtube.com, "Video Background Play Fix" browser extension. | | |
| ▲ | fdgjgbdfhgb 3 days ago | parent [-] | | Works for me without an extension, you just need to click play again after leaving the YouTube tab/locking the phone |
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| ▲ | tcfhgj 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | So does ReVanced YouTube |
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| ▲ | nsoqm 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | On iOS I use Brave and it works fine. |
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| ▲ | tracker1 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | Wasn't aware of this option... I'd actually switched to YT Music because the family plan for YT premium is/was pretty good. Nice to know I can bring it down in the future. |
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| ▲ | baby_souffle 4 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| > Wait a minute, why is mine $13.99 a month? Only the earliest google music people are still grandfathered in at the insanely low rate. The rest of us have been "upgraded" to at least $14/mo. |
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| ▲ | stephen_cagle 4 days ago | parent | next [-] | | Damn, I just looked up how long I have been paying using https://payments.google.com/ . Looks like I've been paying for youtube music since October 2014. These grandfathered people must be really really early. :] | | |
| ▲ | graton 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I started paying $7.99/month for Google Play Music in June of 2013. And it is now YouTube Premium and still $7.99/month. | | |
| ▲ | sphars 2 days ago | parent [-] | | Same here, joined up when GPM was in beta. Still on the $7.99/month. I really only use it for YTM, so if they ever up my price, I'll cancel and use Tidal or Deezer. |
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| ▲ | SoftTalker 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | | They also have a family plan that costs a bit more I think. | | |
| ▲ | tracker1 2 days ago | parent [-] | | I've been on the family plan for a long while... was before they redid Google Music and YT Music, but it included YT ad free and Google Music, so I did that and dropped Spotify around a decade ago. I watch so much YT content, it's been worth it to keep... Though I'm glad that Rumble is there and seeing some improvements in UX, still not nearly as good as YT, but getting better. Mostly watch via Android TV (NVidia Shield TV). |
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