Recent YouTube changes have increased ads, promoted Shorts, and lowered playback quality, reducing enjoyment. Subscribing to YouTube Premium removes ads, enables high-quality downloads, and offers a cheaper Lite option to lessen ads. Privacy settings let users pause watch and search history and disable ad personalization, which improves privacy but can reduce recommendation relevance and homepage suggestions. Pausing watch history can also reduce time spent watching videos. To enable privacy controls in the YouTube app, tap the profile icon in the top-right corner, go to Settings > Manage all history, and open the Controls tab.
YouTube used to be this cool website where you could watch hours of entertaining videos from other people like you, with few interruptions. Of late, though, its management has made a series of decisions that make it harder for folks like me to enjoy the site. From shoving YouTube Shorts into every corner of the site to playing videos in lower resolutions, there are a bunch of things that have made YouTube an objectively worse website and app than it used to be.
Fortunately, YouTube Premium is one of the best digital subscriptions you can get, so if you can spare $14 per month and you use YouTube a lot, then you should get it. I recommend it just to get rid of ads, but it also lets you download videos in high quality. If you're really short on cash, though, you can see if these ad-free YouTube apps still work.
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