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Comment by neallindsay | Hacker News Reader

Youtube Premium or whatever they call it now. In general, paying to not have ads is great. If you spend even a moderate amount of time on YouTube, this will quickly pay for itself.

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You get YouTube Music along with it too, which is higher quality than Spotify IMHO.

I got tired of Spotify raising their fees without much quality improvement. YouTube had a really good algorithm for music discovery, to the point I was discovering music on YouTube and copying it over to Spotify, which often didn't have the same covers I liked. At some point, it made more sense to switch over. Being ad free was just a side feature.

Also there's some preview stuff that only Premium subscribers get. It's not worth getting for itself, but it's a nice touch.

You were already paying by letting them track you and now they are tracking you while knowing you are willing to pay and having your PII. I don't know about you, but my data privacy is worth a lot more to me.

You're paying them to not have to see the ads. It's one of those services where it's really easy to calculate if it's worth it by just roughly summing up hrs/month you spend on ads vs content. I have never found a single service that's has "pay-to-remove-ads" as a business model ever deliver on the HN wet dream of "pay them to not track you."

Ad blockers are free. On mobile you can patch the applications as well

At $14/month, $50 gets you about 3 months. I'm not sure I'd qualify that as life changing.

It sounds more like Mafia: pay us or else.

Ah yes, I remember how Tony Soprano would always threaten small business owners with endless stream of ads if they did not pay protection fees

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