Comment on Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Humanius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have a YouTube Premium subscription

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  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    How does it compare to a Netflix subscription, or whatever you got?

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    • Blackout@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I would dump Netflix before cancelling YT Premium. Everything on Netflix I can stream for free from pirate sites to my TV. YouTube actually has tons of informational and educational content and a premium subscription lets me support it without the ads. I probably watch YouTube twice as much as all my other vid subs combined.

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      • Jaytreeman@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I've been so annoyed with the ads that I've started to go elsewhere for instructional content.

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    • Humanius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I’m technically still sharing a Netflix account with my parents, though I rarely use it at this point.
      Whenever I want to watch a movie, and I check Netflix, they don’t have it. (It’s worth pointing out that I’m not in the US)

      In contrast, YouTube Premium gives me pretty much exactly what I seek from it. Videos from channels that I follow, but now without ads.

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    • BraveSirZaphod@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I watch a lot more YouTube than Netflix, personally

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• echo64@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  out of all the subscriptions, it’s probably the best one. you can get youtube for free but either you’re gonna get ads or you’ll block them, and the creators you like will start seeking other forms of revenue that are just as/more annoying, or just quit.

  yt-premium makes youtube an actually nice experience and keeps money flowing to creators. There’s a limit to how much that nice-experience is worth but it’s better than paying for netflix, and a bunch of netflix execs get paid, and the creators don’t. then the show you like is cancelled and removed anyway.

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  • Riptide502@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I fee like premium is really the only way to make youtube more sustainable for content creators and the platform alike. However, youtube has currently deemed that demonetized videos should lose all youtube premium revenue. That’s incredibly stupid.

    Imagine if premium revenue went to creators you watched, regardless of monetization status. Premium subscribers would be highly sought after for content creators, since it’s a more reliable revenue source that gives them the freedom to make what they want. It’s good for YouTube/google too because thats less reliance on advertisers.

    It could use some adjustments, maybe taking some inspiration from patreon.

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    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I fee like premium is really the only way to make youtube more sustainable for content creators and the platform alike.

      I really don’t see how, unfortunately. You give Youtube the money and they decide what to do with it and they won’t do it in a remotely fair way because they want profits fopr themselves. There are many better ways to support content creators directly than over whatever Youtube decides to pay them at any given moment. Most content creators know that of course and are already linking other services to help them out. At least for as long as Youtube allows it…

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    • xts@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Personally I become a member of the channels I’d like to support or join their Patreon if they have them and then use AdBlock+SponsorBlock and uYou+ on mobile.

      If you pay for premium Google is still collecting all of your data and using it for their own game. Why support them at all?

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  • Gutless2615@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Unlock origin on the desktop, brave browser for mobile yt seems to work fine at not showing ads

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• EeeDawg101@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yeah I do… family plan so split the cost with the fam. I find it worth it. But the price increases are certainly concerning. If it keeps going up I’ll drop it.

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• zefiax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I primarily watch YouTube on tv, it is my most used video streaming platform, so yes I do. As does all my friends.

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• Robin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The combo with YT Music is a good deal.

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• lancemate@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Out of all the streaming services I pay for I get by far the most value out of yt premium, I probably spend 10x longer watching yt vids compared to movies and TV shows, and it has a dedicated music app that links nicely with my android auto.

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• fne8w2ah@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  OP here. I do in fact confess that I share a YT Premium subscription with a friend, though I myself eschew the bog-standard YT apps with those patched using Revanced Extended just because of QoL issues on said regular apps.

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• CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  People with overpaid white collar jobs do that plenty and there are plenty of them who will pay probably up to $50 a month or more. Youtube is already testing predatory measures to make chrome users ditch adblockers by giving out warnings to people who use them. Many more will go Youtube Premium in the near future because of such measures and Youtube will keep ramping up prices of course.

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  • zefiax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    So you are pissed off that people are actually willing to pay for service? Youtube hosts millions if not billions of videos and streams them to billions of users, dozens of times a day and they do all this essentially lag free. That infrastructure is not cheap.

    Additionally youtube actually shares their premium revenue with content creators allowing people to actually make a successful living with their creative pursuits and you control how that revenue is shared by which videos you watch.

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• Chozo@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Subscriber here. I use YouTube pretty much all day long. I usually have it playing something for background noise while I'm working. I've got a family plan with 4 other people on it, who all also get the benefits of ad-free viewing.

  I also use YouTube on several devices of my own. TV, PS5, phone, tablet, three laptops... Trying to manage adblockers on all of those is such a pain in the ass. I'll never go back to troubleshooting Pi-holes and adblockers and adblocker-blocker-blockers. It's an objectively worse experience having to manage all sorts of goofy tools that keep getting circumvented by Google every week.

  Also, the content creators I watch get paid for my views. I spend hours watching these people's content, so making sure they're getting paid means something to me.

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• thekerker@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have one through my legacy Google Play Music subscription. I get YouTube Music and YouTube Premium for $7.99/month

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• Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I pay ~£1 a month for it by ‘being Argentinian’.

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• kemsat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yup. YouTube is most of what I watch.

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• totallyahuman@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’ve had it for a few years. I watch a ton of YouTube via Chromecast. I also use the music service every day. For me it’s a good value.

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• Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I did, sorta.

  I subscribed to Google Play Music All Access from day 1, because (at the time) it was like Spotify but also allowed me to upload my own music. I added a family plan when that became available for my friends/family who wanted it as well, and was grandfathered into that price when GPMAA eventually turned into YouTube Music, which was also bundled with YouTube Premium. Ad-free YouTube isn’t something I specifically sought out but it was bundled into a service that I was using as a perk.

  I kept that subscription going at the grandfathered rate until I got an email from Google one day informing me that they were increasing the price, which was last October, and would only allow me to keep the grandfathered cost for an additional 6 months before hiking me up to the new price. That would bring me from $14.99/mo to $23.99/mo, so I said “fuck that” and canceled. The service only got worse after they killed GPM anyways.

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• briongloid@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I sub from Turkey, or whatever the new name is, for barely more than $2pm for a 6-person family plan in Australia.

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• Snipe_AT@lemmy.atay.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  i pay for youtube premium, i don’t like seeing ads on my phone

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• dmtalon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I do, and YouTube is my primary Media consumption for both video and music.

  That said, I have the family plan which went from $15-23 back a few months ago and it was difficult to keep. I actually cancelled it and used Spotify and some of the available ad-blocking apps, but ultimately didn’t like Spotify, so I came back.

  If it were to go up again anytime remotely soon I’d be gone.

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• Skellybones@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I want to but the price is to high for what they’re asking for. I could have gotten myself a subscription for crunchy roll or Netflix with the money they’re asking

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• 1050053@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I have a premium family membership and I pay around 18 bucks and allows 4 people into the membership I think.

  This includes youtube music, which I use to upload my music and play it anywhere.

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• jeena@jemmy.jeena.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yes, the whole family watches YouTube on the TV, on the iPad/mobile phone apps, that it’s worth it not to see the ads there, plus background play of audio, plus the whole family can stream their music from YouTube Music so no need for an aditional Spotify subscription.

  Anyway, I just wish they’d remove the sponsor stuff on the apps like SponsorBlock does on the desktop for me.

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• Chariotwheel@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I tried a free month, but it really didn't tingle me. I still prefer Spotify to YouTube music.

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• calvinklein97@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I do but I got it „on my holiday“ in India

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  • Stovetop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Question for you: I looked into trying this approach myself, but Google would not accept my non-Indian payment information.

    As it happens, they also refused to take my payment information when I visited Argentina and Turkey, too.

    How did you do it?

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    • calvinklein97@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I used my credit card (Visa by Klarna) and it worked just fine. But it’s been a while since I’ve been there, maybe they changed something?

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• saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I used to when I used have it when subscribed to Google Music—which was amazing but then they tried to replace it with YouTube Music and yet another big amazing Google product died—and there was no point anymore.

  I’ve considered it to stop ads on the TV app, but always thought it wasn’t worth it. I can’t even be bothered ad-blocking the network to include the TV, so raising cost of Premium now may as well make the product cease to exist in my mind.

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• cazool@blip.cf ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep. Between YouTube Music and watching stuff on my TV it’s probably the most used subscription I have.

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• weasel5053@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep. I watch more YouTube than TV. Once you get a curated list of channels set up, YouTube is great. And I don’t like ads.

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• i_am_hungry@meganice.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Yep, I watch YouTube all the time, and use it for music, so I could cancel Spotify.

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• yesterdayshero@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I do! Would probably give up my Netflix subscription before YouTube to be honest. As a family, we spend more time using YouTube than most other streaming services.

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• BroederJakob@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  YouTube has the creators I actually want to support. I don’t mind paying for all the hours of content I’m getting for it

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• Ceviche@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I do, YouTube is my most used video app and I pay for a family plan

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