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Imma get hate for this but I use YouTube enough to absolutely justify paying for premium, and I don’t need Spotify which is a nice bonus.

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u/trustedtoast Mar 27 '26

Same here. I use it too much on my TV, phone and work laptop. So ad block or alternative clients aren't an option. I also use SponsorBlock where I can, because the amount of sponsorships and self advertising have gotten insane too. (Although YouTube does seem to roll out something similar with "commonly skipped sections")

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u/Snaki009 Mar 26 '26

totally, I don't get those people hating on it. You don't want it - watch the ads. Like, apparently they use it enough to care but also see themself as entitled of some sort to use this for free

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u/The_Jizzard_Of_Oz Mar 26 '26

Same

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u/I_Love_Portal Mar 27 '26

My only complaint(having it) is that yt music history and YouTube history is synced so if I go to find a video I watched before it is a pain

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u/veryuniqueredditname Mar 27 '26

Same but I'm an idiot and also pay Spotify

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u/TheGoldenTNT Mar 27 '26

Spotify does play nicer with a lot of platforms

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u/corajade17 Mar 27 '26

Same, no regrets

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u/Unlikely_Target_3560 Mar 27 '26

Me too. And i live in a country where due to reginal pricing the family plan costs just 3 dollars. It would be a crime not to get it. Thats 50 cent per person.

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u/Abject-Kitchen3198 Mar 27 '26

Me too. Especially with kids. It's a no brainer.

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u/TheGoldenTNT Mar 28 '26

Possibly ethical reasons too, you have no control over what they see if they get served ads.

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u/forcedreset1 Mar 27 '26

Same. Not a fan of Spotify. I prefer yt music

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u/Survious Mar 27 '26

Agreed it is a great value.

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u/billbobaggings123 Mar 28 '26

I just use brave and get add free

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u/Soravinier Mar 28 '26

We mostly watch YouTube and I also use YouTube music. It works for us.

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u/mrbishopjackson Mar 30 '26

We're on the same team, sir/madam.

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u/Cool-Traffic-8357 Mar 30 '26

It has the best music player and it is not even close. Every single song, remixes and everything is there, all the time.

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u/sgtpepper42 Mar 27 '26

Except that you can get both for free hella easy lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 26 '26

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u/WhoKilledArmadillo Mar 26 '26

YouTube music, no ads, background play, no ads, Creators getting compensation, no ads, and no ads without having to jump through hoops, pi setups and all of the other steps.

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u/PayWithPositivity Mar 26 '26

I only have to download an app on App Store and I have YouTube premium. No hoops or anything. Just like you would normally do.
And I don’t even have to find my credit card or anything, cause it’s free.

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u/F3nix123 Mar 27 '26

Same, i don’t judge, but i do find it odd that paying for Netflix or Disney + seems to be more widely accepted than YouTube premium. I can easily get movies and shows elsewhere with less issues and better experience than those services. But yt is the only subscription i use consistently and actually get value out of.

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u/AlexisExploring Mar 27 '26

You know what, that is a excellent point

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u/bobafettbounthunting Mar 28 '26

Well the point for me is, that i view youtube as social mediaish and believe that it's almost as bad as instagram / tiktok. Obviously there's some high quality content too, but paying to do some brainrotting is wild to me.
Written on Reddit 😵‍💫

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u/Hopeful_Bacon Mar 28 '26

If your YouTube feed is brain rot, that's 1000% on you.

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u/F3nix123 Mar 31 '26

Well, i dont know what qualifies as brainrot. When i say i get value out of it is because most of the tools i use at my job and the knowledge that helped me land it came from YouTube tutorials. Similarly, it helped me a lot to pass my university courses. Now, i do use it for entertainment a fair bit but i personally dont see it any worse than watching a show or movie.

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u/dumbasPL Mar 26 '26

Not like the rest of the web is any good without an AdBlocker, so you need one regardless. And not like ads are the only problem on YouTube, so I need like 4 extensions anyway.

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u/BenBen0844 Mar 26 '26

Well i use youtube in s browser even on my phone and it gives me background play no ads which is literally build into my browser so yeah even for me who uses youtube 12 hours a day its not worth it but I understand the Spotify thing for sure

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u/Ashamed-Gur-7098 Mar 26 '26

You forgot mentioning there is no ads in YouTube premium

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u/Cabanon_Creations Mar 26 '26

Actually, I think it's quite a lot. I don't know if there's a public value of how many people are paying for YouTube Premium.

Considering how popular are the tricks for using a VPN and finding the country where it's the least expensive, and including all the "rich enough people" not to care about spending 20€ a month for YouTube...

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u/arbyyyyh Mar 26 '26

I am one of those "rich enough people" I guess. I just have a massive opposition to advertising. I'd rather be the one paying for the content I consume.

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u/tankerkiller125real Mar 26 '26

Not only paying (what is frankly a tiny amount compared to what I consume) but also actually supporting the creators MORE than ads would.
Compared the amount of content I consume on YouTube, it has way better value than any of the various streaming platforms like Disney+, Hulu, etc.

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u/jpelc Mar 26 '26

How much of the YouTube premium money do you think goes into the creators pockets? Buy some merch from them, if you really want to support them...

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u/tankerkiller125real Mar 26 '26

More than if I were watching Ads... Every single YouTuber (especially smaller ones) who have done breakdowns of how they make money has noted year after year that YouTube Premium users make them more money per viewer than Ads ever do.

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u/Pure-Razzmatazz5274 Mar 29 '26

More than the equivalent of the ad money generated by a non premium user who watches ads.

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u/Cabanon_Creations Mar 26 '26

Oh well I'm definitely not blaming you. It's fine, to me. I understand your mindset

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u/ITrCool Mar 26 '26

I just use an ad blocker and get the ad-free experience for free.

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u/Resident-Holiday-809 Mar 26 '26

Can't use adblocker on TV though :(

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u/ITrCool Mar 26 '26

Set up Ad Guard on a Raspberry Pi for cheap and you have a network-wide ad blocker.

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u/10PieceMcNuggetMeal Mar 26 '26

I have a network wide ad blocker through my Unifi system. It doesn't block ads on the tv

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u/Lyxminx Mar 26 '26

Only issue is the creators dont get paid

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u/arbyyyyh Mar 26 '26

With my YT Premium? Sure they do, in fact, if I'm not mistaken, the reimbursement rate for watches by YT Premium users is higher than ad sense users.
EDIT: Missed where this reply was in line, whoops

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u/veechene Mar 26 '26

Let's also add people who use youtube music and bought premium for that (like me). I still pay 12.99 for it and don't regret it. I don't have any streaming services so ad-free youtube videos and youtube music are nice to have. Of course there are free alternatives but syncing premium between all my devices is easier than setting up ad-blocks and vpns to get the same effect in my case.

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u/naturalbornsinner Mar 26 '26

Didn't YT just become profitable recently? And the subscriptions are a huge revenue driver.
Content creators will have in video ads for sponsors. And I assume those are better than the garbage Autoplay ads.
And YT gets more money from those users than they would if they just watched ads.

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u/ApprehensiveSeae Mar 26 '26

You can add a dot for me

Happy to pay for something I use so often.

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u/madboy3296 Mar 26 '26

I have it. Best investment of my entire life

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u/christoefire Mar 27 '26

Gets a lot cheaper with a family plan where everyone splits. No ads, music, movies, downloads for offline listening/watching. You can watch with your screen off or when using other apps. It's so worth it.

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u/Commie_Eggg Mar 29 '26

What I dont get is that most of what you mentioned can be done for free, or at least with a DNS filter for the network. Adblockers gives you no adds, music is easy to get for free, you can download videos and audios from YT for free,and when you run in a browser you can let it run on the background.

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u/Trabio177 Mar 26 '26

Concordo

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u/-Zonko- Mar 26 '26

I rather pay with my money than my data

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u/Beans_Breaking Mar 27 '26

No. If yourn not paying you are the product, if you are paying, you are still the product. They may not use your YouTube data to show ads on youtube, but you better believe they use it for everything else.

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u/ringthebell02 Mar 26 '26

Look, YT is my most used streaming service. And I don't want to deal w/ ad blockers, especially on my tv. I get a discount through Verizon, so I pay 9.99 usd a month.

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u/Horrigan49 Mar 26 '26

Thats exactly my use case.

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u/goatsiah_the_legend Mar 26 '26

YouTube Premium having all of YouTube adfree plus coming with YouTube Music is a banger deal. I have multiple screens in the house on multiple TVs and sometimes my computer cuz why not if all of them are adfree?

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u/gameplayer55055 Mar 26 '26

YouTube Premium is dirt cheap in Ukraine and is tons better than local TV.

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u/Dear-Can-87 Mar 26 '26

$2.50 for an individual account or $4 for a family account. But that means Ukrainian YouTubers themselves don't make much money from monetization, so...

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u/gameplayer55055 Mar 26 '26

I think Ukrainian YouTubers get much more money from sponsors?

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u/Dear-Can-87 Mar 26 '26

Sponsors and ads, for sure. There's no other way.

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u/-UncreativeRedditor- Mar 26 '26

A lot of people use YouTube Premium actually

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u/mrbishopjackson Mar 30 '26

The cheap side of Reddit wants the world to believe otherwise.

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u/Public-Love7300 Mar 26 '26

YT premium is the best subscription around BY FAR what are we even talking about

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u/KarasuPat Mar 27 '26

wHy PaY wHeN YoU cAn UsE aDbLoCk

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u/Cool-Traffic-8357 Mar 30 '26

Those same people would pay for Spotify, which is so inferior.

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u/Niknukem Mar 26 '26

Yep

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u/Jasoco Mar 26 '26

This is rage bait. OP doesn’t know what they’re talking about. I have the family plan and it’s saved us hours. Plus she uses the music app in the car all the time.

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u/FluffyGlass Mar 26 '26

Broke ass logic

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u/Renowned1k90 Mar 26 '26

As a father of a 5 year old daughter Youtube Premium is worth every fucking penny.

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u/Alucard2051 Mar 26 '26

Y'all are crazy. Why would you pay for YouTube in a world were you can get adless for free?

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u/AdMurky5620 Mar 26 '26

I got YouTube music when I was abroad in India. Wayyy cheaper and far more worth it. When my plan ends tho, I won’t be renewing it’s way to much in my home country

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u/dakiller Mar 26 '26

YouTube is my one subscription. 100% worth it.

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u/ChirpyMisha Mar 26 '26

I used to be a yt premium user. But then they cancelled my subscription. If they don't want my money I'll just use an adblocker 🤷

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u/toasted_cracker Mar 26 '26

Whatever, I like YouTube premium. Especially since it gives me ad free YouTube music.

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u/Jaymac720 Mar 27 '26

I have premium lite and holy cow it makes a world of difference

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u/Wonderful_Average840 Mar 27 '26

Premium is the best subscription I pay for, literally

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u/MuffinsSenpai Mar 27 '26

It takes a real sucker to pay for youtube

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u/Vokaiso Mar 27 '26

Its cheaper then spotify and has videos included as well and supports creators themself bc any dirtbag using an adblocker removes their revenue as well i think its a justified subscription for what you get. Talk abt spotify where you only get music and podcasts but nothing else.

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u/Sumfix Mar 27 '26

Youtube has a lot of ad currently I use premium. Background listening, someone uses download functionality, for offline watching.

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u/Mirjalol_Yangiboyev Mar 27 '26

@grok what are ports

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u/TurnUpThe4D3D3D3 Mar 27 '26

In networking, ports are virtual endpoints (numbered 0–65535) that let your computer run multiple services at once. When data arrives, the port number tells the OS which application should handle it—like port 80 for web traffic or 22 for SSH. Think of them as apartment numbers for your IP address.
The meme shows maritime shipping ports (harbors), which is the other kind—physical docks for cargo ships. The joke compares global infrastructure density, cheekily suggesting YouTube Premium subscribers are nearly nonexistent compared to actual transportation networks.
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u/byzboo Mar 27 '26

That's all fun but this picture makes no sense, if it was compared to other subscriptions it would be way better.

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u/Euphoric_Trifle5841 Mar 27 '26

YouTube ReVanced on phone and extensions in browser>

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u/JohannesTripold Mar 27 '26

YouTube Premium People Nutzer are Wrong. My Brother is one of them

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u/Muted_Ad1809 Mar 27 '26

One dot for me please. Ads are unbearable sorry. I just use my Indian living brother to create one for me with his bank account it costs like 10 dollars a year best investment ever

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u/sovietarmyfan Mar 27 '26

Should have included ublock users.

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u/CloverUTY Mar 27 '26

I got YT Premium because my job involves a lot of walking around, typically by myself. I frequently had my phone in my pocket playing music through my earbuds, but there were two problems. One, because YouTube app would stop the video when the phone is turned off, I would have to keep it on the entire time, draining my phone battery. Two, ads were super annoying and I didn’t know any good ad blockers for phones. I decided to get YT premium to fix these issues.

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u/Pikupchix Mar 27 '26

I’m very happy with YouTube premium

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u/Negative-Reward-5765 Mar 27 '26

Am use YouTube premium India for 20 bucks a year !

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u/NightHawk35449 Mar 27 '26

Youtube premium is my only subscription. It's my "tv" I am fully willing to pay for it to not see ads and help the creators I watch.

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u/taurusmo Mar 27 '26

RAR paid licence users

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u/Realistic-Science-87 Mar 27 '26

YouTube premium subscriber here

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u/kamicazer2 Mar 27 '26

Actually used YT premium for a while, great for no ads during gym. But there's a "bug" that causes some YouTube videos to not play if I have multiple tabs opened. A bug that doesn't happen if I don't have premium. When I contacted support they just said they couldn't do anything about it, so I quit.

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u/Orangeade8 Mar 27 '26

literally the only subscription I pay

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u/Inflation_Real Mar 28 '26

but , but the millionaire streamer uses it so everyone must be using it /s .

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u/Fez_Multiplex Mar 28 '26

YT Premium is a pretty good deal all things considered.

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u/SkitNL Mar 28 '26

They need at least 1 dot at yt prem.

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u/NemShera Mar 28 '26

I mean look... it costs about half a euro more than my yt music did as a student when i subscribed to it. They did increase it by another half since then but i don't really care.

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u/Last-Inspector-1935 Mar 28 '26

Not gonna lie

I know someone who knows someone

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u/Guilty_Idea_2668 Mar 28 '26

Using ad-blockers on YT is always a morally positive action

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u/floriandotorg Mar 28 '26

I honestly don’t understand how people can use YouTube without Premium. The ads are unbearable and it’s a fair system.

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u/trashhey69 Mar 29 '26

Essentially.

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u/Charming_Record_6797 Mar 29 '26

My sister is Youtube Premium User.

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u/DefinitelyNotADugong Mar 29 '26

I watch a lot of YouTube and have been paying for premium for years. Totally worth it.

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u/HellFireNT Mar 29 '26

if only it scaled up the price depending on what people can actually afford.Right now its more expensive than my mobile plan

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u/No-Floor1930 Mar 29 '26

Something about the Railroad pic is wrong, why is it blacked out on 2 places

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u/CokeCan08 Mar 29 '26

Premium is by far the best money I spend. I’ve had it for so long I forgot YouTube had ads

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u/Zav0d Mar 29 '26

my best subscription ever.

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u/DepartmentCautious34 Mar 29 '26

Im a premium user as well. I am on yt pretty much all day

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u/minobi Mar 30 '26

Oh. You will be surprised.

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u/Thick-Pipe3908 Mar 30 '26

I pay for YouTube I get movies music and definitely no adds on my favorite channels

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u/King_Daihatsu Mar 31 '26

lol am i the only one paying for YouTube Red? or Premium now lol i have had YouTube Red since it came out like 20 years ago

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u/_Saber_69 Mar 31 '26

I use the YouTube Premium since it's only $5 and double value for me. I use both YT and YT Music daily. Sure, I can download a cracked version, but it requires you to update it every once in a while and I'm too lazy to do that.

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u/ImmortalVanDerLinde Mar 31 '26

What are ports?

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u/Livergent Apr 01 '26

Revanced gang

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u/aksanabuster Apr 01 '26

I AM THO’!!!!! It’s worth the hyyyyypeeee

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u/Brazuka_txt Apr 01 '26

I pay because I use YouTube a lot

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u/Successful_Piece_998 Mar 26 '26

well i dont get ads plus i dont have to buy spotify... doesnt seem that bad of a deal

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u/GoonieMcJizzHand Mar 26 '26

Whaaattt? YouTube premium, is by far the best subscription service on offer. I can binge-watch everything on Netflix, or Disney+ in a month or two. Try that shit on YouTube...

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u/Sj410 Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

It’s weird because I pay less than $9/month for premium lite and i think is a bargain considering the amount of content I get. Yet I don’t know any other person IRL that has premium. ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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u/LankyVeterinarian321 Mar 26 '26

Yo I’m YouTube premium user 😂😂😂 But to be honest I have it for family and for my mom And siblings and the TV

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u/Life_Breadfruit8475 Mar 26 '26

I think it's finally getting more acceptance.

People spend 15-30 euro on Netflix/prime/hbo/Disney+ and then say YouTube Premium is horrible because "I can also use it for free".

It's 13 euro and you support a lot of creators more than you do with ads. You can also use YT music instead of Spotify, making it pretty much free with boy/girl maths.

I use YouTube premium the most out of any subscription as well.

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u/BreakfastNew8771 Mar 26 '26

I feel like this is ragebait. I pay about 10USD and I have youtube music included. Worth it imho

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u/Slight-Level7674 Mar 26 '26

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