5 options I’d gladly pay extra for

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I’ve been a YouTube Premium subscriber for a few years now, ever for the reason that Premium Household plan turned obtainable in Lebanon after I was dwelling there. Different subscriptions have come and gone in that point, however not YouTube; it’s the one month-to-month fee I gladly make as a result of I do know it helps creators I like and saves me hours of frustration with countless advertisements on each machine my husband and I personal.

However YouTube Premium isn’t excellent. Each few months, I’ll hear a couple of new experiment or new function unique to Premium customers, and assume, “Gah, this isn’t what I need!” If it have been as much as me, YouTube would add extra sturdy controls and customizations and provide them to Premium subscribers, as an alternative of losing time reinventing the wheel with a brand new remark web page look or foolish autoplay and Shorts hooks. Particularly, there are 5 options I want YouTube would add that I’d be prepared to pay extra for. Right here they're.

Which options would you wish to see in YouTube Premium? 5 votes

Full house web page management and customization

0%

Per channel customized playback velocity, captions, and video high quality

0%

Extra sturdy blocking for channels, key phrases, and customers

60%

Subcription grouping and group

0%

A greater YouTube expertise on sensible TVs

40%

One thing else (inform us within the feedback)

0%

Full house web page management and customization

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I grew up within the period of private customization, not algorithmic bastardization. I really like having management over what I see in any app, service, or machine I exploit. As a substitute, firms have slowly taken over and determined they might present me what they assume I need, with out giving me management over it, and YouTube is the largest offender. I don’t have any management over the app’s house display screen, however I want I had all of the management.

I wish to select what exhibits up from my subscriptions and advisable movies. Give me a dial on the prime that provides me extra advisable movies on one facet or limits my feed to just lately printed movies from the channels I observe on the opposite. Or a filter if that’s simpler, and no, the New to you choice isn’t sufficient. Additionally, let me type these movies by most up-to-date, most watched, or most favored so I can rapidly discover one thing that will get my curiosity. And let me choose what number of Shorts (if any) I wish to see on my house display screen. The Present fewer Shorts choice doesn’t reduce it, particularly not when YouTube typically opens to an auto-playing Quick as an alternative of the house web page.

YouTube determined to indicate me what it thinks I need as an alternative of letting me select what I wish to see.

I’m additionally jealous of third-party YouTube shoppers like SmartTube that supply different house web page customizations, like bigger or smaller video thumbnail tiles. I’d like that, too, plus an choice to cover Breaking Information movies, Posts (even when they’re coming from channels I observe), Members movies I can’t watch as a result of I’m not a paying subscriber, and random “advertisements” for Originals or Exclusives that I’m not desirous about.

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Not each YouTube channel I watch is equal, so why does YouTube deal with all of them equally? Every time I re-open the app on my cellphone, internet browser, or Google TV Streamer, it reverts again to default playback settings (velocity, captions or not, video high quality) for all channels, and I discover that infuriating.

I’d like to hurry up movies from some channels to 1.5x, however preserve soccer recaps at 1.0x. I wish to allow auto-translated captions on movies from the few Spanish channels I observe since I’m not fluent within the language, however preserve captions off on a number of different channels. I want my sports activities movies in 4K, however tech or comedy movies can keep at 1080p to stream sooner and use much less knowledge. And extra importantly, I’d like these preferences to hold throughout units so I don’t need to fiddle with them on a regular basis, particularly not on the TV, the place each choice is a couple of clicks away.

I can’t do this now, and I want YouTube would offer this feature so energy customers who pay for the service can select precisely how they wish to watch every channel.

Extra sturdy blocking performance

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I’m not the one one who will get irritated by sure channels or key phrases repeatedly popping up of their feed or search outcomes with none approach to block them. My colleague C. Scott feels the identical approach and desires there was a block channel choice, and so do 96% of the 600+ Android Authority readers who answered his ballot.

I don’t simply wish to preserve educating the algorithm, “I’m not on this” and “Don’t suggest this,” I desire a nuclear block choice that I can instantly apply to all deceptive accounts. Any time I see a channel that copies others’ content material with out crediting them, makes use of deceptive titles (soccer recaps are a giant sufferer of this), spreads false data, or consists of clearly AI-generated content material (inventory movies and AI voiceovers for journey channels are such a flip off), I can block that. And poof, it goes away from my suggestions, search outcomes, comparable movies, or any playlists I try.

I desire a nuclear choice to dam any deceptive, baiting, or AI channel I come throughout.

I’d additionally like to dam jerks within the remark sections of some movies to cease their phrases from ever showing in entrance of me, sure key phrases or hashtags from being served to me, and even Shorts — altogether or Shorts from channels I don’t observe. And might I please fully block any livestreams? These preserve popping up after I’m swiping by Shorts, and regardless of what number of occasions I inform the algorithm I’m not , essentially the most random Shorts from channels I don’t observe and on subjects I’m not even remotely desirous about preserve re-appearing.

Channel grouping or group

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My YouTube pursuits are diversified, and so are my channel subscriptions. There’s meals, tech, comedy, sports activities, inside design, music, journey, and extra, and having all these channels in a single single listing is counter-productive to me.

I need channel grouping and higher group, one thing akin to folders or tags to separate the insanity beyong simply sorting alphabetically or by most up-to-date video printed. ure, there are occasions after I admire leaping between subjects and benefit from the number of my subscriptions, however there are additionally occasions after I wish to lose myself in one thing very particular.

Channel folders or tags would permit me to catch recaps of all of the soccer and tennis video games I haven’t watched stay, see what the tech bloggers take into consideration the brand new Pixel Watch 4, try all of the track recaps when the Eurovision Nationwide Remaining season begins, loosen up to some good stand-up comedy, or have binge-watching classes of journey or meals or inside design movies. It will additionally permit me to silo my homescreen into particular pursuits so every one seems like a separate YouTube expertise.

A greater expertise on my TV

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About 80% of my YouTube watching occurs on my Google TV Streamer, but I reckon that that is the worst platform to observe on. Each few weeks, I really feel like there’s a brand new experiment on my Residence tab; typically, it’s a brand new and un-removable Breaking Information row, typically it’s a YouTube Premium unique or premiere. The subscriptions tab can’t be sorted in any respect, it’s only a random order of channels, which I really feel is ranked by how seemingly I'm to test their movies, however makes it unimaginable to discover a channel I haven’t watched for a couple of days (not to mention weeks). And video controls like playback velocity are hidden a couple of menus deep. It’s even much less customizable than the cellular or internet app, and that's saying one thing.

If YouTube needed to earn my timeless loyalty, it will make its app higher and extra customizable on sensible TVs.

A couple of bonus requests which might be unlikely to occur

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I do know it’s not taking place, however I want YouTube would add a SponsorBlock function like many third-party shoppers provide. I do know creators want their cash from sponsored segments, however I’m already paying for Premium, I don’t need extra advertisements to disrupt my watching. For now, the skip forward function with the watching/curiosity graph helps me soar forward to the top of a sponsor phase, so I don’t miss this all that a lot, however a correct toggle could be welcome.

Extra granular video high quality choices à la SmartTube could be cool, too, with totally different codecs and bit charges, particularly after I’m someplace with a sluggish or restricted web connection. And the way about one thing just like the Dearrow extension throughout all YouTube apps that replaces thumbnails and titles with one thing extra truthful.

There’s a fats likelihood of any of those options coming to YouTube, so I’m going to chunk my tongue and faux I didn’t utter any of those phrases. The opposite ones, although? I feel lots of them are possible for the YouTube workforce, and I want they’d implement them, even when they have been a part of a costlier Tremendous Premium or Premium Deluxe package deal. I’d really pay extra to get all of this management and customization in my expertise.