You don’t have to pay for YouTube to use it, but there’s no doubt about the benefits of doing so. YouTube Premium offers an ad-free experience, loads of useful time-saving features, and convenience boosts if you use it across multiple devices. Oh, and YouTube Music Premium is available, too. Clearly, Premium invites a “premium” experience compared to the free tier, but has paying for this privilege become a necessity?My colleague Joe Maring argues in a recent piece that “free YouTube no longer makes any sense” given the platform’s rise of ad length and frequency, but do you agree? Or, better yet, what does your wallet think?