That’s too bad. Because I don’t know anyone who’s excited to give YouTube any money at this point. I used to buy some movies from Google once in a while, but after they did the bait and switch with music and movies I don’t trust their media store anymore. It’s clearly not profitable enough for alphabet. How much longer are the assets I already paid for going to be available? When will YouTube decide those licenses aren’t worth continuing? I think consumer trust in Google is probably at an all time low.
It’s funny. They could try—I don’t know—providing some good products that sell themselves, but instead, they have decided to resort to surreptitiously selling our data and pushing more schlock at us.
Weird that people wouldn’t be excited about that…
man, I miss Google Play Music.
It wasn’t half bad for buying albums. I was so pissed when YT Music first came in to “replace” it only to find none of my purchases on GPM mattered because YT Music doesn’t allow for actual downloads (just offline downloads that you can only play in the app).
It does allow for actual downloads, it’s called yt-dlp.
Oh YouTube. You are in such a dominant position for talented individuals who want to create their own TV show. You’ve been pissing people off for a long time, but changing what “YouTube” even is seems way worse.
I will even pay the $15 for my family to be able to easily watch or listen to whatever they want in a native app on whatever platform they’re using. And I like how it makes my views more valuable to the creators I care about.
But if it’s not cheap, easy, AND ad-free, it is not difficult to block ads or even download videos I care about onto my Jellyfin server.
Good luck with that
Makes sense, I’d do the same if i was hired as a sales person in charge of youtube
I’m good. I spend less than $20 a month on 3 services, and it’s all I need. Youtube is not even one of them. Dropped the app, use it directly in Firefox on my phone with ublock origin, and I get no ads which would be the only benefit I would want it for. I still source all my music and keep locally and setup my own music server which is accessible anywhere. Same goes for TV and shows, not the streaming sites but an actual local library. It’s been working for about 10 years now so I have no reason to change.
I removed YouTube from my phone today! Fuck Google!
YouTube TV used to be such a good value. $35/m for the channels you actually want. Now it’s bloated and way too expensive. I moved back to traditional cable in January and haven’t looked back. I save $20m with Spectrum versus overpaying for YT TV.
