• Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      I wish I could be as pleased with it. I don’t want to pay for a service and have that service still collect data on me to push ads elsewhere.

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        2 months ago

        Unfortunately that’s everything. Netflix, buying groceries with a credit card, even driving your new car.

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          2 months ago

          It doesn’t have to be this way. Somewhere in the past something went wrong.

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            2 months ago

            No. Nothing went wrong. Just nobody cares how anything works just so long as it does.

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        Mate, you can’t use basically anything today then. Your car probably collects data on you. I’m not saying I love it, but life’s too short for me to cut everything trying to collect my data out of my life. Gotta pick and choose my battles.

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      2 months ago

      Same. I watch more YouTube than probably any other streaming service. Plus I got the family plan and I sell the extra seats to my extended family and friends. Works out to be pretty cheap in the end.

      I do the same for Spotify, Disney plus. Formally Netflix but they cut down on password sharing

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        If you have YouTube premium, why do you have Spotify? YouTube music is comparable and better in some cases.

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          2 months ago

          I don’t pay for either but I use both and the youtube music desktop ui is really really bad. Plus the annoying thing of it often playing music videos instead of the normal song. I definitely like it better on mobile though

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            You can toggle video or song. I actually like yt music way more because it can play pretty much anything on YT, including hours and hours of mixes you won’t find on Spotify.

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              You can’t really toggle video or song though, you can toggle video or thumbnail to video with video audio

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                I’ve had a different experience. When I have it on video, it’ll play the music video version, and when I have it on song, it’ll play the studio version. Maybe that doesn’t work for every song, but it definitely has worked that way for me.

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          Honestly it’s the social aspect. Everyone I know uses Spotify, so sharing playlists and tracks are super easy. I know there’s converters out there but I can’t be arsed to do that every time I want to send or receive a link. I’ve also got some shared playlists between friends we all contribute to. At social gathering I can turn on the party mode or whatever it’s called and let people add stuff to the queue. The big one though is I’ve got a few friends with really good taste. I can check in on them from time to time to see what they’re listening to right now. Found a lot of great stuff this way.

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        Yeah until it gets shot by A/B testing again lol. I love newpipe, but for somebody with a family it’s hard to justify, especially bc the non-techies of the fam are gonna want something that ‘just works’.

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      My 3 kids all use iPhone and we have a bunch of chrome casts. The only practical way to avoid the ads in YTP.