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YouTube Go is dead, and you can probably blame YouTube Premium

Enlarge (credit: YouTube) YouTube Go is probably not an app that many of our US readers are familiar with, given its singular focus on the developing world, but it scored more than 500 million downloads in its six years of existence. It’s also dead. YouTube recently announced the app will be shutting down this August. […]

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YouTube’s “Premium Lite” trial offers ad-free YouTube for €7 a month

Enlarge (credit: NurPhoto/Getty Images ) YouTube Premium is $12 a month, and the service offers ad-free videos, background play on phones, and downloading videos (both for YouTube and Google’s Spotify competitor, YouTube Music). What if you don’t care about music and all that extra functionality, though? What if you just want to not see ads? […]