My YouTube subscription costs 0. ublock Origin.
Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month
Submitted 11 months ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Noxvento@lemmy.world 11 months ago
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They started blocking users with advanced adblockers completely in some places. It’s expected they’ll roll out that policy in most countries. Prepare to either ditch Youtube completely, watch dozens of ads as well as sponsored segments every couple of minutes (because why would Google pay content creators who make them a huge pile of money by providing content for free adequately, right?) or pay hundreds of dollars a year. Even then they might start showing you some ads because why the hell not? Big tech stole the internet from us and now they’re banking in on it big time. Needlesly to say this is not a sustainable business model, but since when did that ever bother mega corporations?
sylverstream@lemmy.nz 11 months ago
It’s a cat and mouse game, and history has proven that in this case adblockers will win. Or we’ll get ad blocker blocker blockers.
gian@lemmy.grys.it 11 months ago
Prepare to either ditch Youtube completely
Your terms are acceptable…
daniskarma@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Unless they put YouTube content behind a paywall there will always be ways to block ads.
Probably that would be their future take, free 3 minutes of the video, if you want more… pay.
automodbeta@lemmy.world [bot] 11 months ago
Oh no my dns provider broke and it cant resolve the ad servers. Pihole for the win
Chozo@kbin.social 11 months ago
Personally, I like it when the content creators I spend time watching get paid for their work.
SuddenDownpour@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So pay them directly or through other platform. Why would you pay them through Youtube rather than Patreon when using Youtube Premium is going to make them get a lower share of what you paid?
USSEthernet@startrek.website 11 months ago
The amount of downvotes on comments trying to help people not get price gouged shows me just how many corporate shills are actually out there. No wonder these corps keep getting away with this bullshit.
daniskarma@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I don’t have the money to sustain the “everything is a subscription” simple as that. So adblockers and piracy is the only way to get media content.
I still go to the cinema, but some cinemas over here are already experimenting with subscriptions.
0Xero0@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Firefox+UBO and Revanced users: Oh no… anyway…
flossdaily@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I pay $22 per month for the family plan because I don’t want my kids or my folks to have to be constantly inundated with ads. And I enjoy being and to play free music that is exactly the songs I want, as free.
I was really upset when they raised the price on me, and kicked me off the grandfather plan. But in the end I decided it was still worth it.
But what the real cost to Google is here is that they have evaporated my loyalty and good will. I now see them as a company that will squeeze me when they know they can get away with it, and that my loyalty and being an early adopter means nothing to them.
That will definitely affect every future buying decision I make for future products and services.
jerdle_lemmy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Revanced still costs $0/month.
theyresocool@lemmy.world 11 months ago
They gave me 3 months free and it was just the same broken website without ads.
Youtube is completely broken. The algorithm doesn’t even auto play undiscovered music or videos. It’s just serving me the exact same videos I already watched. It used to be a really fun and good service that was free and now you get shit and have to pay for it.
Why would anyone pay for that?
Is anyone running the company or are they all just doing drugs?
CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 11 months ago
We believe this new price reflects the value of YouTube Premium
I disagree. YouTube offers nothing without the content creators. While reason I ever started using it because TotalBiscuit made a good case for it. But I have to say, while they keep jacking up prices I don’t feel like I’m getting anything more. I never asked for YT Music and would gladly take a discount to have it removed.
Keep fucking around and find out Google, I got no issues going back to ad blockers. Whole reason I got premium was to support those I watch and all I ever hear is how Google is fucken them over.
punyGIANT@lemm.ee 11 months ago
NewPipe (mobile), FreeTube (desktop), SmartTube (TV). If you did not know about these, you’re welcome.
ovec@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’d rather have a cheaper version premium just for Youtube without ads though. I’ve heard there is or was Premium Lite in some countries, but not where I’m from. I don’t need Music, I already pay Tidal for that.
Or is YT Music with Premium so much better than the free one? When I cancelled my Spotify and were looking where to move, I gave the free YTM a try. It would be two birds with one stone - YT without ads and a replacement music streaming service. But I just hated the whole experience. The UI, that my music “follows” get mixed with YouTube subscriptions, and that it always plays a video with every song.
Smex@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My adblockers are holding steady with a 0% rise! I still ain’t paying!
gutter564@feddit.uk 11 months ago
That’s nice. continues to enjoy effectively yt premium with NewPiped for free
codanaut@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Google’s really been on one lately. They’ve also been laying off staff, increasing ads while trying to ban ad blockers from YouTube, raised the pricing of workspaces yet again and closed the unlimited drive storage loophole. Removed photos from the album archive thingy. And I feel there’s been a few other things within the last couple months I’m forgetting.
BaldrOdinson@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Lol. Theres already no way I’d pay for YouTube premium. Raising the price more and more just entrenches that more and more.
fidelacchius@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Still a good value compared to Netflix tbh
MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I never understand the practice of increasing prices to stuff like this when you have less income, because all it does is drive away current and potential customers.
It’s like with cinemas, if you reduce the ticket price enough you’ll easily fill up screens. If they want more money from YouTube premium they should reduce the price to increase membership to cover the cost and then some for what you reduced it by.
It’s not rocket science.
CrypticFawn@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Newpipe has me covered on my phone, and a few extensions in FF has me covered on Desktop, and I’ve already got Spotify. YouTube Premium offers me nothing, and I suspect it’s the same for a lot of people.
catastrophicblues@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
I really wish they’d decouple it from YouTube Music. I don’t use it and if just Premium was about $10 or so I’d at least consider it.
Pratai@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
Wait… people PAY for YouTube?
azalty@jlai.lu 11 months ago
They want people to start using YT Premium while slowly blocking ad-blockers, but they increase the subscription price… what?
stappern@lemmy.one 11 months ago
imagine giving money to google
LeylaaLovee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
I miss Google play music. Shit was fire.
FeelzGoodMan420@eviltoast.org 11 months ago
Youtube premium is pretty pointless when ublock origin exists…
MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 11 months ago
People actually pay money to watch YouTube? I thought that was some kind of elaborate practical joke
beardsley@midwest.social 11 months ago
Thankfully the price of my YT free account is still only the cost of everything I’ve ever written in email or a web browser so all good 👍
Jimbo@yiffit.net 11 months ago
Good job YouTube, I was considering picking up your subscription but now nooope, expensive enough in NZD as it is
croix@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Who tf is actually paying for YouTube premium?!
Rubezahl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
So sad there are no free alternatives such as NewPipe that do exactly the same thing.
Riusaki@lemmy.world 11 months ago
YouTube Revanced ftw. Firefox with uBlock Origin ftw too.
FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Does…. Any one, actually, you know, subscribe for YouTube?
Humanius@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have a YouTube Premium subscription
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
How does it compare to a Netflix subscription, or whatever you got?
echo64@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Riptide502@lemm.ee 11 months 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.
Gutless2615@ttrpg.network 11 months ago
Unlock origin on the desktop, brave browser for mobile yt seems to work fine at not showing ads
EeeDawg101@lemm.ee 11 months 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.
zefiax@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I primarily watch YouTube on tv, it is my most used video streaming platform, so yes I do. As does all my friends.
Robin@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The combo with YT Music is a good deal.
lancemate@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
CosmoNova@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
zefiax@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Chozo@kbin.social 11 months 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.
thekerker@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I have one through my legacy Google Play Music subscription. I get YouTube Music and YouTube Premium for $7.99/month
Dasnap@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I pay ~£1 a month for it by ‘being Argentinian’.
kemsat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yup. YouTube is most of what I watch.
totallyahuman@lemm.ee 11 months 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.
Stovetop@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
briongloid@aussie.zone 11 months ago
I sub from Turkey, or whatever the new name is, for barely more than $2pm for a 6-person family plan in Australia.
Snipe_AT@lemmy.atay.dev 11 months ago
i pay for youtube premium, i don’t like seeing ads on my phone
dmtalon@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
Skellybones@lemmy.world 11 months 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
1050053@lemmynsfw.com 11 months 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.
jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 11 months 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.
Chariotwheel@kbin.social 11 months ago
I tried a free month, but it really didn't tingle me. I still prefer Spotify to YouTube music.
calvinklein97@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
I do but I got it „on my holiday“ in India
Stovetop@lemmy.world 11 months 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?
saltesc@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
cazool@blip.cf 11 months ago
Yep. Between YouTube Music and watching stuff on my TV it’s probably the most used subscription I have.
weasel5053@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
i_am_hungry@meganice.online 11 months ago
Yep, I watch YouTube all the time, and use it for music, so I could cancel Spotify.
yesterdayshero@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
BroederJakob@lemmy.world 11 months 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
Ceviche@lemmynsfw.com 11 months ago
I do, YouTube is my most used video app and I pay for a family plan