Comment on Google Ramps Up Crackdown on YouTube Ad-Blocking, Targets Third-Party Apps
Stovetop@lemmy.world 9 months agoI 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 9 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 9 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 9 months ago
lol then one day youtube music appears in killedbygoogle.com
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 9 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 9 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.
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 9 months ago
How much do they profit off YouTube again?
Oh wait - they don’t. They take losses from it. A business, meant for making money, is suffering a loss to provide goobers like you content and have the goobers making that content profit enough so they aren’t in poverty for choosing to make videos for a living.
You people really throw logic out the window when you talk about shit like this. You want corporations to make less money? Go fix the fucking tax laws not bitch about average membership fees like a fuckwit.
GardenVarietyAnxiety@lemmy.world 9 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.
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 9 months ago
They provide a service not easily replicated, hence why there are no good alternatives. They operate on a loss because Alphabet/Google can afford it. They own the monopoly because they’re willing to lose money on it. You can swallow your pride and fuck off but it doesn’t matter. You don’t make an impact. They’ll still have the userbase and you leaving does nothing but lighten the server load from people who won’t pay anyway.
You aren’t entitled to free services at the expense of others. They don’t have to let you use their website without charging you. You not using the site without paying isn’t the attack you think it is, it’s the desired outcome.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 9 months ago
So, why Youtube Premium has ads ?
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 9 months ago
It doesn’t.
Source? Me. I’ve had it for months haven’t seen a single ad.
Meltrax@lemmy.world 9 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.
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Okay I’ll let Verizon know so they can stop charging me monthly. I’ll let Google know the servers they bought should have been free. That the electricity to keep them running, also free. It’s all just fuckin free!
How long have you been on the internet? Two weeks? Three? How did you even find Lemmy?