Google is experimenting with locking YouTube Music lyrics behind paywall aka YouTube Premium Subscription.
Basically, YouTube music will only let you see the lyrics of the song "partially".
Users get only 5 free lyrics before they have to subscribe. When that happens, you’ll only see the first few lines, with everything else blurred and unscrollable.
Google told Ars Technica that no final decisions have been made about this feature, and the number of free lyric views will vary across the test. However, this "testing" has expanded considerably in recent days and lot of users are seeing the lyrics being paywalled now.
We are running an experiment with a small percentage of ad-supported users that may impact their ability to access the lyrics feature repeatedly. We often run experiments on YouTube Music to better inform our decisions around feature improvements. The majority of our global users will not see any changes to the lyrics feature.
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