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I have YouTube Premium because I want ad free videos, and 90% of my YouTube views are done on an AppleTV. With that, YouTube Music comes bundled. I don’t care about YouTube Music, I think I tried it one time for about 10 minutes. If I could get ad free YouTube without the music service for less money, I do that in a heartbeat.

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How have I only just found out that yt premium includes yt music?

I've been subscribed to yt music for years but not yt itself. And nowadays I do watch more content on yt than listen on yt music.

So it turns out yt premium is pretty much the same price and I can keep using yt music and I now also have no ads on yt itself.

That's the easiest upgrade I've ever made.

YouTube ran a "YouTube Premium without Music" deal in Denmark for about a year. You couldn't "downgrade" to it, nor did they really promote it in any way. In the end they just went "Well, guess no one wants that" and cancelled the program. It was basically impossible to buy, of cause it failed.

I would have preferred Apple Music, or some other service, because the YouTube Music interface is apparently heavily inspired by Snapchat and impossible to navigate. But given the racket Google runs, I'll just live with YouTube Music, because I'm not paying for two music services.

This is disappointing to hear. I remember reading about that deal and was excited for it to be available to me.

I pay for Apple Music. It annoys me that I pay for two services, but I really didn't like YouTube Music in my brief interaction with it. If I want to get down to 1 music service, I think I'd sooner drop YouTube Premium. I've been thinking about doing that just to stop me from going down so many rabbit holes on that site. I waste way too much time there.

I pay for both Spotify and YouTube Premium. I'd love it if I could save money with just YT (which I mostly get to watch things like tutorials without commercials, and my wife watches a ton of vlogs), but it lacks a few things I use (like the ability for our Echo devices to "play {song}" via voice)

I'm surprised it doesn't work with Echo devices, you'd think someone would have made a program that fixes it. It works fine with google devices, although it's algorithm sometimes pulls up playlists instead of individual songs, or songs that contain a lyric with the song you specified instead of a less popular song that is actually named what you specified, if you aren't specific.

> I have YouTube Premium because I want ad free videos

Does it block sponsored content too? With extensions, you can block both ads and sponsored content.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin...

no. YouTube Premium does not block sponsored content.

Just ads, not sponsored content, but those extensions you speak of aren't a thing on the AppleTV. I can see were the popular parts of the video are, usually just going to the next spike will be the end of the sponsored segment. I haven't found it to be a big deal. The ads, that abruptly interrupt the video, and make you wait for several seconds before you can skip (if you can skip at all) are the things that bug me the most. Sponsorship are minor in comparison. Plus, the better YouTubers will work it into their content, so I may not want to skip it.

ditto for me. word for word.

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