YouTube is the only streaming service I pay to skip ads - here's why

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As a tech writer, I usage YouTube arsenic a regular portion of my job. I besides occasionally perceive to immoderate euphony portion I work. Put those things together, and it turns retired that YouTube Premium is simply a fantastic prime for me. 

YouTube Premium costs $13.99 per period for individuals (or $139.99 annually), $7.99 for students, and $22.99 for families with up to six users. The second is the program I subscribe to, and I stock it with my woman and 2 kids.

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YouTube Premium gives you a fig of benefits, similar removal of ads, offline viewing -- though there's a glitch successful that mechanics I'll sermon aboriginal -- and the quality to proceed playing euphony and movies adjacent erstwhile your device's surface is off. 

There are different benefits, too, similar stopping a video connected 1 instrumentality and picking it up connected another, enhanced audio and video quality, Picture-in-Picture viewing (YouTube successful a tiny floating window), and more.

YouTube is not built for ads

Personally, conscionable getting escaped of ads is capable for me, and there's a circumstantial crushed for that. Most of the YouTube videos that I ticker are created arsenic 1 long, continuous portion of content. Ads breaking into that contented is jarring connected the champion of days. 

I don't subscribe to immoderate different ad-free services; each of my different streaming services see ads. That's due to the fact that I mostly ticker TV programs connected those services, which are already breached up into segments for broadcast TV. Breaking up movies -- which is truly annoying, by the mode -- and breaking up long-form YouTube videos is excessively disjointed an experience.

Speaking of which, portion this isn't a YouTube Premium exclusive, if you haven't checked retired YouTube's escaped movie selection, spell close now. It's conscionable banger aft banger. You'll convey maine later.

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But the different crushed I emotion YouTube Premium is due to the fact that it includes YouTube Music successful the package. That's fundamentally similar getting Spotify for free, on with removing ads. 

Of course, my household would disagree with that point. My woman and girl both usage Spotify (free, with ads), contempt the information that they some person entree to YouTube Music. I whitethorn delve into that improvement successful different feature, but for now, it's a spot confounding.

There's conscionable 1 occupation (for me)

One velocity bump that I tally into astir each twelvemonth is the information that YouTube Premium members are lone allowed to download videos onto 10 devices astatine a time. If you tally into that cap, the work volition automatically swap retired your oldest instrumentality up to 4 times. After that, you are everlastingly locked to those 10 devices. 

Well, that's fine, right? Surely a mean idiosyncratic won't person much than 2 phones, a mates of tablets, and possibly a fewer TVs, right?

I reappraisal phones for a living. You tin astir apt spot wherever this is going.

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So, erstwhile per year, I tin email lawsuit support, patiently explicate what I bash for a living, and get told that it volition reset my devices arsenic a one-time courtesy. It's a anserine occupation to have; I get it. But I person it each the same.

But overall, YouTube Premium is an implicit no-brainer for me. I'm smitten with it. YouTube Music works beauteous good for me, though the algorithm has atrocious days similar anyone other from clip to time. But the existent slayer diagnostic is removing ads connected videos that were ne'er designed to person them successful the archetypal place. That's wherefore I volition support coming backmost each time.