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I might be mistaken but, I think cellular carriers force 480p. I always use a VPN and PipePipe, LibreTube, or Clipious so, I don't know for sure. Lol And, I do look for PeerTube content sometimes.

Yeah, I don't think any of the "creator" advert things you mentioned have much to do with the big G. I'd guess that 70% of that goes to the channel. Hopefully that much or even more.

Either way, as someone who makes music and goes to local shows, I generally avoid YT and other big platforms. I encourage other bands to upload to PT and FunkWhale. They may as well upload torrents with how much artists get paid from streaming, and use whatever third party tipping platforms.

I don't even like the widespread use of the word "creator".

I pay also, and use revanced. I watch YouTube more than any other service, and want to support some of the creators I like.

I would feel a lot less self hatred for paying google if they released a YouTube 'Lite' app that dropped everything related to shorts. Paying users should be able to use the app however they want, without having extra features rammed down their throats.

Am somewhat late to the (third) party, why are most people here using a newpipe fork? Is the original compromised somehow?

I pay for premium as well and just use Firefox for YouTube. I get tabs and a better layout

The video quality problem really winds me up. Not gonna canc though because I bought through Turkey and it costs less than a dollar a month.

YouTube is unwatchable for me without sponsorblock so I've liked the newpipe forks that include. And on desktop I love freetube because it goes further and lets me block channels.

Are you using the YouTube Music app, or the YouTube app and loading the music section? I've never seen anything you're describing.

Happy customer personally, never had these complaints.