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YouTube Red

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lopri

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Meet YouTube Red - a new membership designed to amplify the videos and music you love. Watch ad-free videos whenever you sign in to YouTube or a YouTube app. Save videos to enjoy when you’re offline. And keep your videos playing while using other apps or with your screen off. Your membership keeps supporting the people who make your favorite videos, even while watching ad-free.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YL9RetC0ook

I am cautiously optimistic because I myself prefer paying for contents/apps to dealing with ad-supported ones. We shall see.
 
Well I already subscribe to GPMAA. So I should get this for free. I'm also locked in at $7.99 for GPMAA, so I hope that price stays and gets me both.
 
Don't Buy Your YouTube Red Subscription On iOS

http://gizmodo.com/dont-buy-your-youtube-red-subscription-on-ios-1737961156

Apple has the option to subscribe to things on iOS, using your existing method of payment on the App Store. It’s convenient! But also expensive: Apple charges companies a 30 percent cut of all subscriptions sold, an amount that Google is choosing to pass on to the customers.

In other words, a $10 subscription costs $13 bought on iOS
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Luckily I'm not an iSheep, and never will be in my life.
 
Newbian said:
I guess some people don't know how to use ad blockers or like watching ad's. 😉
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Blocking ads is a very different ballgame once you go beyond the traditional desktop PC. One could go to the length of blocking ads at the router level (which is clunky and a bad way to do it, imo), but even that only applies when running traffic through that router. You could still tunnel all your traffic through it outside the home too, but it would take additional setup. You could root or whatever to block all ads on a mobile device, but that's not so simple either (and not possible on some). It's also dishonest if some of the apps you use have ad-free premium versions that you may not have paid for, or they depend entirely on ad revenue to keep the lights on as far as development of the app goes.

So, I can see the appeal in paying to see zero ads on YouTube across all your devices (especially if it works on a GPMAA family plan).
 
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tsupersonic said:
Well I already subscribe to GPMAA. So I should get this for free. I'm also locked in at $7.99 for GPMAA, so I hope that price stays and gets me both.
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Since I've posted this, it was confirmed that I'll get to keep my $7.99 for GPMAA & Youtube Red. That was a great investment! I'm liking it so far.
 
Yes of course I hate ads, but who watches enough youtube to warrant any price?

Are people sitting there all night watching random cat and music videos?
 
Insomniator said:
Yes of course I hate ads, but who watches enough youtube to warrant any price?

Are people sitting there all night watching random cat and music videos?
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Honestly if I had kids I would pay. Have you ever seen kids with Youtube? They will watch the same unboxing video 20 times in a row!
 
Insomniator said:
Yes of course I hate ads, but who watches enough youtube to warrant any price?

Are people sitting there all night watching random cat and music videos?
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Think of it as a package and it's worth it.

Google Music All Access and YouTube Red for $9.99.

Makes it look much more attractive than Apple Music and/or Spotify.
 
What a bad name choice tho. Don't google 'redtube' without filters on.

And FYI, watching cat videos for 4-6 hours a day makes you more productive, a better person and speeds up cat staff training.
 
On the phone, I have Xposed module to block YouTube. And at home, I have router level ad block.

Honestly not worth it if you can get around it yourself.
 
zerogear said:
On the phone, I have Xposed module to block YouTube. And at home, I have router level ad block.

Honestly not worth it if you can get around it yourself.
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But if you frequently watch a channel (or two, or three, etc.) and genuinely enjoy them, you may want to support their efforts. They either get paid by ads or now the subscription, which is good because I personally would rather pay for content I enjoy ("voting with my wallet" and all that) than sit through annoying advertisements.

I am considering signing up for Red. Being able to save videos for offline watching is a very nice feature to have.
 
poofyhairguy said:
Honestly if I had kids I would pay. Have you ever seen kids with Youtube? They will watch the same unboxing video 20 times in a row!
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My 8 year old watches youtube constantly, but he also knows that ads are just a small part of it.

Want to watch youtube? Then watch the ads. He watches AFV, funny cat videos, and other stuff like that on his tablet.
 
AznAnarchy99 said:
day 2 with youtube red and I'm just loving the fact that I can minimize the video and have it still play.
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When you say minimize do you mean you can still hear the audio and the video is gone, or does the video actually shrink aka some kind of picture-in-picture thing?
 
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