Comment on What the fuck happened to YouTube!?
fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 3 months agoIt’s more like… YT realised they would never be profitable selling ads and needed a subscription model. No one wants to pay for a subscription so to improve the perceived value of the subscription they need to make the free offering unbearable.
_pete_@lemmy.world 3 months ago
This is pretty much it.
YouTube Premium is only remotely worth it because regular YouTube is an absolute shitshow
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 months ago
YouTube premium is worth it because of YouTube Music. I’ve never been impressed with the music recommendation algos of other streaming companies, but YTM has pretty good recommendations (possibly because they kept some decent things from Google Music). I’m kinda surprised the regular YT music recommendations are so bad compared to that of YTM.
_pete_@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’ve never been impressed with YouTube Music, the UI feels jank and it doesn’t work on half the devices in my home (compared to Spotify which just works on everything)
Passerby6497@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Interesting, I haven’t had any issues across multiple phones/PCs/browsers for anyone in my family plan, but that’s internet services for you.