Comment on Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January

1984@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• konalt@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just curious: Where in the article does it say $23? It says $13.99, so I’m wondering if it was a typo.

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  • poppy@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They may be confusing it with the family plan? Which is $23 for up to 5 people, which imo is a pretty good deal if you know 4 other people to go in on it.

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    • xbit00@lemmynsfw.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You and five others, so 6 total.

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      • poppy@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Ah thanks! Duh. “Add up to 5 members” not just “5 members”. Whoops.

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    • chiliedogg@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And it specifically allows sharing outside of a household. So me, both my parents, and my ex all share a subscription. And it covers YouTube Music as well. It was better when it was GPM, but that’s been a while now.

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• CrayonRosary@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s the family plan. The individual price is $13.99. Absolutely worth it to me. 10/10, would shill again. I watch almost exclusively on Apple TV, so unless I had a DNS ad blocker, I would see ads. And even those will eventually be detected and blocked, I’m sure. This is how much I’ve consumed since signing up in August:

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  I love supporting the creators of the excellent science and math content I subscribe to. Plus I watch a ton of stupid Tim & Eric sketches, SNL sketches, kitten videos and such. I couldn’t imagine seeing an ad for every 1:00 video!

  Presented with a choice of paying or seeing ads, imma pay. The price is less than one movie ticket a month.

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  • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll upvote you back up.

    I’m the same way. I use YT on my AppleTV, and I’m an adult with money so $14 that bad. That’s basically one double quarter pounder meal these days.

    Do I want to see the price increase? Of course not. But I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.

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    • CrayonRosary@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Thankfully, It’s only increasing for people currently paying just $10. They will now be paying the same $14 as us.

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      • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I had the grandfathered in YouTube Red plan from years ago, but I was paying just via the App Store so there was the Apple tax. The price there was going up to $18/m, so I canceled and will renew in about a week (when my normal payment is due) directly from YouTube. I honestly haven’t really thought about the price in a while so I don’t realize it was already $12/m that way, and going this new route the price change is just $1 more for me.

        But I think it’s worth the no hassle with no ads on every device. I go to friends’ houses and they put on YouTube with ads, and I don’t know how they live like animals like that.

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  • Landsharkgun@midwest.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Get Nebula, you boot licking clown

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  • Mango@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’ll pay YouTube when they stop ducking over content creators with DMCA laziness and terrible royalties for music streams. A service that’s worth it is one thing, but that service essentially exploiting it’s employees who have no other viable alternative is bad. I’d rather pay my content creators directly through merch, Patreon, etc…

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  • Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Even DNS blocking wouldn’t work. DNS blocking only works if they serve ads via a different name server than they serve their content from (like content from videos.youtube.com and ads from ads.youtube.com). If they give you both ads and youtube content from the same domain, then your DNS blocker can’t selective block the ads. So DNS blocking doesn’t work on YouTube, and plenty of other streaming ad-containing streaming service.

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• RQG@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Per year or per month? I’m afraid to look.

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  • avatar@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    per month

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• KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Just use a VPN in Turkey and get it for pennies on the dollar.

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  • CrayonRosary@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I’d be worried they’d figure it out and ban your account.

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• aceshigh@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I had no idea how expensive that was. I wonder when prices will max out. $23 is waaaay too much for YT.

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  • Bazoogle@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    $23 for a family account. Which is cheaper than the single user ($11.50 a person if you were to have two people, $4.60 if you used all 5 accounts).

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• JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Given the quality and quantity of videos on YouTube, it’s probably the best streaming service.

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