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I'll never pay for until until 1. It's reasonably priced, 2. Downvotes are returned and 3 sponsor block is integrated into the app.
Can I add 4. the integrated video downloader actually downloads videos, in whatever format you would want, and with no internet connection required to watch them. This to me is still the biggest scam 'feature' of Youtube Premium. You can '''download''' videos, but not as eg. an mp4, but as an encrypted file only playable inside the Youtube app, and only if you connected to the internet in the last couple of days can you play it.
That's not downloading, that's just jacking my disk space to avoid buffering the video from Youtube's servers. That's not a feature, that's me paying for Youtube's benefit.
I cancelled and haven't paid for Premium in years because of it. When someone scams me out of features I paid for, I don't reward that shit until they either stop lying in their feature list, or actually start delivering.
Holy shit, I didn't even know about that bullshit. Yea that definitely makes the list.
Sponsor block is not going to be included as those are not controlled by YouTube. They are the Chanel's sponsorship.
Well they need to do something because those sponsor segments are fucking ads.
They do have chapters which could allow creators to separate sponsor ads into a skippable segments. Some of them even actually do it.
It should be a requirement if they are being paid by Youtube