• kamen@lemmy.world
    2·
    2 months ago

    Ads aside, what’s been infuriating me lately is that YouTube seems to have degraded the quality of existing videos and locked the previously available quality behind the “1080p Enhanced Bitrate”; I have no way of confirming this since I obviously don’t have Premium, but I’m fairly sure that the regular 1080p of old videos that I rewatch from time to time (uploaded 2-3 years ago or earlier) is now worse than it was. If it was about new uploads with something previously unavailable, it would’ve been somewhat understandable. Something also tells me that the paid tier is also going to get ads eventually.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      I’m guessing they’re going to use the classic method of increasing the subscription price and then later creating a new lite subscription that does have some ads.

    • lastweakness@lemmy.world
      01·
      1 month ago

      From everything I’ve read, it seems they didn’t actually reduce quality and it’s just placebo from the introduction of the premium bitrate option.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    2·
    2 months ago

    I always somehow miss when it stops working and by the time I go to YouTube again it’s already working again.

    Blessings to Gorhill

  • iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works
    0·
    2 months ago

    YouTube Premium is the only media subscription I pay for because it’s the only one I consider worth it. I watch an unhealthy amount of YT, listen to tons of music, and even use YT as a kind of cloud storage for thousands of hours of recorded video.

    • glitchdx@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      I used to pay for it, for the same reasons. They stopped taking my money, i don’t know why, and I noticed zero change in the quality of the service.

      I’m paying for other google services, so I don’t know why youtube specifically stopped. Oh well.