I’m good. I spend less than $20 a month on 3 services, and it’s all I need. Youtube is not even one of them. Dropped the app, use it directly in Firefox on my phone with ublock origin, and I get no ads which would be the only benefit I would want it for. I still source all my music and keep locally and setup my own music server which is accessible anywhere. Same goes for TV and shows, not the streaming sites but an actual local library. It’s been working for about 10 years now so I have no reason to change.
Good luck with that
That’s too bad. Because I don’t know anyone who’s excited to give YouTube any money at this point. I used to buy some movies from Google once in a while, but after they did the bait and switch with music and movies I don’t trust their media store anymore. It’s clearly not profitable enough for alphabet. How much longer are the assets I already paid for going to be available? When will YouTube decide those licenses aren’t worth continuing? I think consumer trust in Google is probably at an all time low.
man, I miss Google Play Music.
It wasn’t half bad for buying albums. I was so pissed when YT Music first came in to “replace” it only to find none of my purchases on GPM mattered because YT Music doesn’t allow for actual downloads (just offline downloads that you can only play in the app).
It’s funny. They could try—I don’t know—providing some good products that sell themselves, but instead, they have decided to resort to surreptitiously selling our data and pushing more schlock at us.
Weird that people wouldn’t be excited about that…
