I mean unrelated as in unrelated, I, nor anybody have I talked to want a Youtube Music subscription or yet another podcast app.

I recently left Spotify because their web app makes my monitors flicker when it gains focus and they inserted ads into podcasts. What am I paying for with Spotify if not ad removal, just like YT?

I actually bumped my YT plan to family and put my parents on it. They didn't know about ad free YT, now they don't know how they went without it.

>I mean unrelated as in unrelated

Okay, we've established you don't know what unrelated means.

YouTube with no ads is $12 a month. How can it be more clear?

>I, nor anybody have I talked to want a Youtube Music subscription or yet another podcast app.

I'm sure some of these people happily subscribe to Spotify, and can't spot a good deal staring them in the face.

I happily subscribe to Spotify because it just works better for me. I would subscribe to YT Premium if I could get YT only for like $5-7. I'm not paying $14, or realistically whatever the family plan is up to now, for ad-free YT and an inferior music experience. So YT doesn't get any money from me.

Most of ads on YouTube are there to cover copyrighted music. YouTube Music is the free addon.

Youtube Premium is more expansive than Spotify Premium.

You can still think it's a good deal though.

It could maybe even be considered anti-competitive to bundle Youtube and Youtube Music as the only option.