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Comment by phplovesong

9 hours ago

Youtube is pretty unusable, as they throttle videos, and links sometimes dont work. It has gone downhill fast in recent years.

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ConceptJunkie  9 hours ago

I have no problems with YouTube at all. Perhaps it's because I pay for Premium (primarily to get YouTube music).

Regardless, Google services getting worse over time is becoming a law rather than a tendency.

  • cons0le  8 hours ago

    I don't get the value ad of youtube music. Everything's already on youtube and they let you make playlists, and they have playlists of the top charts already.

    What else does youtube music get you? I can play on my phone with the screen off with yt vanced ( and I would never pay just for that feature, because I remember when it was free and they took it away )

    • weaksauce  7 hours ago

      > I can play on my phone with the screen off with yt vanced

      there's a lot of iphone/ipad users out there.

      > Everything's already on youtube and they let you make playlists, and they have playlists of the top charts already

      I don't use it but ui probably. ads maybe. plenty of people have money and don't want the inconvenience of trying to get around it.

    • raydev  4 hours ago

      For me, it just comes with Premium, and I buy Premium to support the creators I watch often without having to watch ads. I want them to get paid.

    • charcircuit  7 hours ago

      No ads on music, no ads on shorts (shorts are allowed to freely use copyrighted music unlike long form video), background playback, downloading music to your device. These all are big value ads for me.

    • j45  7 hours ago

      You can play youtube videos (ad free) as music on any chromecast device including chromecast homes with the microphone turned off.

      Also, when playing music you won't be hit with ads.

      Your setup can move with you wherever you are, home, travel, in the vehicle. This can be helpful for engaging the audible sensors of small aliens sans screen.

      Youtube without ads on every device, anywhere, is quite a different experience.

kiwijamo  7 hours ago

They limit the buffer to around 30secs or so like all other streaming services but otherwise 95%+ of the time it just plays smoothing with no buffering at all from start to end. YouTube is generally in the top 3 of the video streaming services I use. Even on 4G wireless (which I occassionally use) it works well enough which is impressive as other video steaming services struggle (with the sole exception of Netflix which is probably the only one better than YouTube).