Can’t even seek through songs.

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I know not everyone will agree, but I think YouTube premium is the better bang-for-buck service. $3 more per month than Spotify and includes YouTube Music premium and YouTube Premium. So all the music and ad-free YouTube.

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19 points

Except what YT Premium does is easily doable with free tools.

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23 points

Only so long as Google decides to continue serving content for free to people who contribute nothing to their bottom line, which isn’t guaranteed to last.

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Anyone that thinks Google’s WebDRM is going to stop with ads is a fool.

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20 points

*with free tools from thankless efforts.

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23 points

You can donate to projects you like tho

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10 points

An argument could easily be made for Spotify as well. There are plenty of options for streaming music for free to your device with download support. Just about anything can be done for free if people are willing.

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YT is just the more egregious example of this imo.

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Sure, for now. YouTube is cracking down on ad-blockers, don’t think they’ll let those free tools work forever…

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YouTube is basically the same price as Spotify in my country (only 12 cents more actually), so even more bang for my buck, specially for family plans.

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I’m currently in a three month trial due to the value (music streaming and ad free you tube), but coming from Pandora YT Music’s radio algorithm sucks sooooo bad. One of my first plays was a foo fighters album and now all the stations I create have alt/grunge in them. It’s making it really hard to consider staying.

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Surprising to see any suggestions on here for YouTube Premium. I have been lucky enough to be on a family plan for years and it’s honestly great. Sometimes, it’s just easier not to deal with having to hack around things to make them usable.

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Family is one of the biggest reasons. A huge part of it for me was minimizing at least SOME of the ads my kids would be exposed to.

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I did not agree when I had both premium, I did not agree when I had YT light and Spotify premium, and I do not agree today.

Context: I only use YT for its main service; streaming video. I never tried YT music because I already had music streaming set up in a way that worked for me.

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I mean, if you are paying for two services but don’t use one by choice, sure I can see the value not being there.

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