I signed up to a YouTube Premium free trial, and it was annoyingly brilliant — but there’s one setback that’s keeping me from returning

Of all the paywalled services out there, YouTube Premium is the one that I’ve never thought twice about signing up to. After all, I’ve been pretty fine just using its free version — but that changed a few weeks back.

After toying around with the idea and pushing it back on countless occasions, I gave into my temptations and signed up to YouTube Premium’s 1-month free trial. I’ve never quite understood why anyone would sign up to it, for me the price hikes and restrictions on extremely basic features haven’t sold me. Oh how I’ve totally changed my tune.

Over the course of my free trial, I used YouTube Premium more than Netflix, Disney+, and the slew of our best streaming services combined. If anything, it’s as if none of them existed in the first place — here’s what I thought ...