A YouTube Premium subscription takes care of that, but ad blockers do exist. Google seems to have gotten the message—a cheaper streaming subscription is on the way that drops YouTube Music from ...

Premium Lite, you may remember, was basically a half-priced YouTube Premium plan that got rid of ads, but that was pretty much it — no background playback, no YouTube Music, no extra perks.

While YouTube Premium provides access to YouTube's entire catalog, you can still only subscribe to YouTube Music Premium. The price for that service, however, has also increased, and is now $10.99 ...

Google first introduced AI-generated backgrounds in 2023. Users could generate custom environments for video calls on Google Meet. However, the quality of the backgrounds didn't impress anyone.

This includes ad-free playback, YouTube Music, background and offline playback for up to 6 people. In some regions, a YouTube Premium subscription can be almost 90% cheaper than the US pricing.