I was about to pay for it when they doubled the cost. No joke I told my wife I was going to start paying since we watch it all the time. The next week they doubled the cost. It irritated me. Not because I couldn’t afford it but because they added no value with the increase. Nothing changed.
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TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You know, they’d probably get a tenfold increase of Premium subscribers if they just, I don’t know, dropped the prices a smidge and had better regional pricing. Not everyone can or will subscribe, but Google is only making this more difficult for themselves by making it such an expensive service.
cybersandwich@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ElmerFudd@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I believe there’s a sort of death-loop phenom taking place here. The enshitification, you know.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
How much you think the salaries of the pencil pushers are, the ones who get paid for little else but squeezing every single possible cent out of the supply/demand curve? The corporate greedsters, err the “revenue maximizers”.
Startup founders are told:
Raise your prices. You’ll triple them and only lose 10% of your customers, and it will be your worst 10% of customers.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I was a happy subscriber when I was paying $15/mo for a family plan for 6 people. I was grandfathered into a low rate for being an early adopter of Google Play Music All Access.
Then they decided that grandfathered plans no longer applied and wanted me to start paying $23/mo, a more than 50% increase, so I canceled. I switched to Spotify for the music, where I pay less, and just watch less YouTube since the ads are ridiculous.
If they kept it at $15/mo, I’d still be a subscriber. If they sold just ad-free YouTube for like $3/mo, I’d consider subscribing to that and keeping my Spotify subscription.
Meltrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It costs $23/no for fucking YouTube? And to get the same experience you get with a free browser add-on? Fuck all of that. Absolutely not.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep. Their excuse is that you also get YouTube music out of it, but there is no option to buy them separately.
At this point I have no interest in moving away from Spotify, so Google’s gonna have to play ball if they want to get me back. It’s sad, too, when it seems like every other YouTube link I visit from my phone brings up a prompt begging me to subscribe again.
newcool1230@lemm.ee 2 months ago
lol then one day youtube music appears in killedbygoogle.com
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 2 months ago
… No. It’s $15 a month unless you sign up every single person in your family. It still boggles my mind how people have grown used to the idea of using services for free. The internet isn’t free. Everything costs money, even Lemmy. YouTube has server costs. Employee costs. And dare I say it, profit margins because they’re a business.
You need to pay for services you use. I’m exhausted with online entitlement that it all should be free.
Frost752@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Right, cause YouTube/Google are really struggling so much that their only option is to increase prices while offering less value and making everyone’s experience worse.
GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It reads to me like you think these companies are entitled to a user base. They aren’t. Just because it costs money to run a service, it does not mean we have to accept the price they charge or the anti consumer practices.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 2 months ago
So, why Youtube Premium has ads ?
Meltrax@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The Internet is actually free. Services on it aren’t always. The issue with YouTube monetizing, for me, is 1) they are doing it retroactively and 2) they’re monetizing content made by others.