Why is this shit so fucking expensive? Youtube doesn't even do shit as a company, yet they want $20 a month for background play and a built in add blocker?

>>106171790 (OP)
>Downloads
I've always wondered this about paid YT, do they actually allow you to download a standard video file or is the download DRM'd?

>>106171790 (OP)
>he's not using youtube revanced

Why would you pay for features you can get for free through Newpipe?

>>106171790 (OP)
>Youtube doesn't even do shit as a company
You mean, apart from operating one of the most compute and bandwidth heavy websites on the internet?

>>106171790 (OP)
huh i didn't know it went up. I've been paying premium for awhile. i wonder if they grandfathered me in at the rate i signed up with. doesn't matter either way ill keep paying.

>>106171841
DRM, it only works in the app, and you have to connect every 30 days or it stops working

>>106171841
No, I got premium on the student plan discount while delivering pizzas as I didn’t know of alternative adblocks/background play options for when I was driving during work. The download puts it on your device, but it’s inaccessible app data in a proprietary data/file type, and it can only operate with the YouTube player. They limit you to force reliance, but who expected otherwise?

If you need to download a YouTube vid last I tried a couple years back you could still do so with VLC, I was clipping vids this way to save edited sections as webms. Don’t know if they patched this out yet.

>>106171910
>moving money around is a heckin hard job i deserved to get paid a gorillion shekels or else this is annudah holocawst

This shit is jewed to hell and back.

Will someone fucking make a YouTube alternative already for the love of God.

>>106171925
>>106171975
>piracy offers better value than paying
DRM strikes again, it's like vidya DRM cucking paying customers situation all over

>>106171991
anon... what do you think youtube is?

>>106171790 (OP)
>$10.99/month
>Most videos ad-free
>Most
Imagine paying for ads

>Sponsorblock
>Dearrow
>Ublock origin
I never ever see ads or sponsors of any kind

>>106172058
based Faithposter

>>106172138
/g/tards think that storing one exabyte of data (with an additional 5 petabytes being added each day) costs nothing

>>106172058
>Will someone fucking make a YouTube alternative already for the love of God.
Not happening, we have more luck in seeing youtube broken in two by antitrust. Because of all the individual regulations pushed by individual countries, it's now way too complicated and expensive to run a competitor. At that point only tiktok or instagram long form could compete.

>>106171848
>>106171882
For me it's tubular. All the features of YouTube Premium with sponsorblock as well

>>106172921
They wouldn't need to store so much data if they didn't actively encourage the uploading of as much hours of slop as possible.

>>106171790 (OP)
Those videos are not stored in the void, Anon. They have to pay for the hardware and all the employees working in those data centers. Yes, there is the ad money, but perhaps it's not enough. Also, people pay for it, so why lowering it?