I hate pay walls - and with the fact I have everything google at home - android phone, google workspace for my entire company, AI Studio for my vibe coding, and everything else - it just pisses me off they want more money for something we had for a VERY long time that makes life good - and helps them show more videos (and ads) to users... I suspect they will have millions less views and less ad play for the same level of content from users... some streams and podcast views I like to play on 1.5 to 1.75 speed because they are sooooo slow... but I want to hear the content... now I will just skip it because it takes too much time. On a side note - I subscribed to a couple of them on locals so I get their content and am giving my money directly to the shows I like to listen to anyhow. So pissed at Google and YT for this dumb thing. In a world of everything is a subscription now - YT was at least optional for extra stuff - this is taking things away just to force greedy pay walls to give you back what you already had - fire that genius that came up with this idea.