I pay for plenty of goods and services. Just not YouTube. As others have noted, YouTube premium makes ads go away, but none of the other engagement baiting and user disrespecting anti-patterns. As far as I'm concerned, Google is in adversarial relationship with its users, whether your paying or not.

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sam_bristow an hour ago | parent | next [-]

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.

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raw_anon_1111 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I 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.

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phero_cnstrcts 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Does it make the sponsor sections of the videos go away too?

	▲	Gigachad 13 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		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
	▲	Nannooskeeska an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No, 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. [0] https://sponsor.ajay.app/ [1] https://github.com/dmunozv04/iSponsorBlockTV