Absolutely not. I only watch a handful of videos a month and don't care about their music streaming. $12/month is an absolute ripoff. No way my handful of ad views produces more than $1, MAYBE $2.
That's you, and power to you.
I know of cafes that use YT for music. They make their own playlists of nice video clips, and they display them inside theirs shops while they play the song. So.. good music, nice video clips, and all that for $12. At this point I will have to admit that they are cheating as business (cafes/restos) that play music have a difference (and more expensive) setup that they have to follow for licensing/playing music.
Btw, this could be illegal in some countries. Streaming is for private use, and to play music in the shop the license for public playing could be required.
If you set your VPN location to Ukraine, you can buy Premium for ~$2.70/m
That's what I did.
That's fraud. Blocking ads isn't.
Protip. Sign up from the Philippines. You don't even meed to fly there...
Until your Google Account gets banned for violating the ToS. No thank you.