It reminds me of Google charging 12.99 a month for the ability to darken the screen in YouTube.
Feds pressured Peloton to "voluntarily" recall their device so now they're making up the difference by jacking up the subscription fees.
Engineers hate these things because they know the relative minimal efforts required, and that the line of free vs premium feature is completely arbitrary.
Gives you all the features of YouTube Red - including the ones that were available BEFORE Google silently removed them to put them behind a paywall, like background play!
Also includes experimental features to use crowdsourced data on where ads are in videos and automatically skips them if desired.
Oh my goodness!
You have no idea how much of a positive impact this exchange has had on my summer! Thank you, stranger! :D
For some people, this is quite valuable.
As a side note, the video downloading is made available in the mobile app as well.