Comment on YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.

tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• redcalcium@lemmy.institute ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Heck, they don’t even pay a good fraction of their bandwidth because they put caching box in your ISP location to reduce loads. This is a huge privilege as ISPs won’t let any random companies run equipments for free in their network, which is one of a huge barrier for any YouTube competitors.

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  • LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They might be allowing them to run the boxes for free, but the ISPs are saving money on bandwidth, too.

    Get enough users for the ISP to care and they’ll work with you. Otherwise, you probably don’t have all that many users to begin with, so the overhead that maintaining and distributing these boxes would create wouldn’t be worth it anyway.

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• nnjethro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Youtube expenses is Rev share with creators and hosting untold hours of video, over 500 hours uploaded per minute, that others just don’t have to deal with.

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• ICastFist@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It “makes sense” in that, unlike those two, YT has to deal with thousands of hours of video being uploaded to their servers every minute. What they don’t pay in streaming rights, they pay in storage and bandwidth costs, plus a couple of peanuts for “moderation”, which is probably more expensive in the long run

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• zwaetschgeraeuber@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  you forgot to add spotify which is about 12$

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  • Lord_Logjam@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    YouTube Music is included with YouTube Premium though so no need for Spotify if you have YTP.

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    • zwaetschgeraeuber@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      yes. thats why i was saying they forgot spotify price in their calculation its still pretty ok price for ytp in relation to spotifys new price jump.

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      • Lord_Logjam@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Ah I see, fair point

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• ChronosWing@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Well it also includes a streaming music service which are normally $10/m on their own.

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  • Sylvartas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I already pay for Spotify. They knew exactly what they were doing when they lumped that shit in YouTube premium

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  • indianactresslover@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    They should offer it seperately.

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    • kirk781@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      IIRC, YouTube Music is also offered as a standalone service, Atleast in some countries. However, the difference b/w YouTube Premium and just the Music service comes out to be miniscule, so folks just pay for the former.

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      • indianactresslover@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, I want Premium without Music. It’s not offered anywhere.

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  • tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I can’t see the value in using youtube for music… it’s not like I can watch music videos in my car. That’s worth $0 to me, and I imagine the majority.

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    • ChronosWing@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Youtube music doesn’t have music videos, not sure what you are talking about. It’s just a clone of play music after they shut it down.

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    • gsfraley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Fwiw, it’s not videos, it’s a Spotify clone.

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    • KepBen@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you’ve already got a solution for ad-free music in your car, sure, obviously. Not everybody has that though.

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• TheDarksteel94@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Depends on how much you use it. I watch Youtube pretty much every day for at least an hour, while using Netflix or other streaming services about once evey few months. I use Spotify every day too, just because I like their app more in some ways.

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  • Atomdude@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If I had to choose, I’d swap my Netflix and Disney+ subscriptions for YouTube. I think I watch YouTube videos about three times as much as Netflix and Disney.

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