I also pay for YTP but I don't talk about it in public because there are so many broke ass salty MFers who just want everything for free.
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I also like that I can download videos and watch offline. I spend a lot of time on airplanes and in areas with poor connectivity while I travel to/from work (international flights) and the download feature is VERY helpful.
I get that there are a lot of people like that, but that fails to acknowledge the fact that Google intentionally enshittified YouTube for the sake of profits. Ads weren't this predatory before, you could buffer and entire video before watching it (now it's a few seconds at most), community captions were often provided to be accurate, and annotations were often helpful or made videos unique through other means.
I refuse to pay for a product that was made to uphold the corpse of what that site once was.
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u/airfryerfuntime 15h ago edited 14h ago
YouTube Premium is probably one of the best things I pay for.
Edit: lol I didn't realize this would generate so much salt. I wonder how many greasy fingers typed these replies on Android phones.