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Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month
Submitted 1 year ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
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Xeulifer@lemmy.nz 1 year ago
I pay ~$6.50 a month for a family plan following the guidance on cheapies.nz to sign up with a VPN and pay in Ukrainian currency (had trouble with turkish) - because google screwed me over when I was paying $19.99 a month on the grandfathered plan. if that ever stops working ill just cancel the lot and go back to sailing the high seas.
INHALE_VEGETABLES@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Yarr
coolfission@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I cancelled yt music subscription today after hearing about the price increase. Musi is a much better iOS app than yt music anyway bc the interface is simpler and it actually lets me play all the music while yt music is like you can’t play this song right now due to copyright.
arashikage@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was grandfathered into their oldest pricing model back when Google Play Music was at its peak, and now they’re hiking my price too. I’ll be glad to see the subscription go, but I need a better music streaming platform that’s 10 dollars or less
atomicpeach@pawb.social 1 year ago
Wait, we’re losing our grandfathered pricing?! Bummer. I guess I’ll give Tidal another shot. Their service was nice and I like that they pay the artist the most compared to the other popular platforms. I didn’t like their “radios”/auto playlists but maybe they’ve upgraded their algorithms since three years ago.
Climinteedus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Spotify is $9.99/mo and it’s a pretty decent music service.
JackFromWisconsin@midwest.social 1 year ago
I got by for a long time using a YouTube playlist and Vanced. Might want to look into YouTube Revanced, it’s a patch for the YT app that deletes ads and adds some extra features.
closedmouthsdonteat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I was a Google Play Music user too. I mainly used it to host my iTunes music library and music was a lot cheaper to buy vs iTunes and Amazon.
I ended up switching to Apple Music. Its not bad, but its not great either. I just needed another place to host my iTunes library
C126@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Plex is good if you’re willing to run your own.
coldasbluessoul@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What’s that? I couldn’t hear you over revance
ghariksforge@lemmy.world 1 year ago
People actually pay for this crap?
schrodingers_dinger@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I quite enjoy YouTube premium. I was an avid Adblock/YouTube Vanced user before, but now that I am a little older and make more money, I realized it’s worth it to me to get premium. I don’t pay for any other streaming services, and YouTube is what I watch the most so I figured why not support it.
It makes me feel better knowing my money gets distributed to creators as well through YouTube. That did not happen before as I always blocked ads. Plus I don’t need Spotify if I want to stream music because I have YouTube music. And YouTube music actually seems to have more of the music I like anyways, plus I already liked finding music through YouTube channels anyways.
I’m not advocating that everyone should buy YouTube premium, I’m just saying that it can have its merits for some people.
99nights@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well yeah, I have a family subscription and I don’t need to pay for another music subscription like Spotify etc. YT music has come a long way since it’s release (i’ve been with it aince the start) and it’s great now. I like that you can watch the music video version too.
odbol@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I got it bundled with my YouTube Music subscription. Definitely worth it, especially considering you’d pay the same amount for Spotify and not get any videos
azalty@jlai.lu 1 year ago
can’t YT Music be bought separately for a bit cheaper?
zanyllama52@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Isn’t it interesting to consider what it must be like? I cannot imagine any scenario where I would pay for this.
bezerker03@lemmy.bezzie.world 1 year ago
We pay for yt music and it gives us this lol
mycroft@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If google adjusts creators revenue by 1/3 I’ll pay that.
IamSparticles@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Huh. I wonder if they will increase the grandfathered price I’ve been paying as a Play Music early adopter. Hope not, because at $7.99 it still feels like a pretty good deal.
MusketeerX@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, I’m only keeping it because of the grandfathered deal. If they scrap that I’ll just cancel and save the money. Better in my pocket than Google’s!
HimDownStairz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just got an email saying they are raising my $9.99 price I had since Google Music to $13.99 in December.
dicksplinter@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Same. I’d have to finally cancel at that point and that would be very disappointing after all these years.
Aloomineum@kbin.social 1 year ago
So Canadians can expect 20$ a month now?
MedicPigBabySaver@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Nope
Pinto23@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I pay 12.99 and that was my max :( Gonna be hard pressed to cancel the subscription. Guess I’m going to learn how to use those workarounds and just save the 12.99. Well now 13.99 starting in September
jungekatz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well if u primarily use android and a desktop u have better options than actual premium ! I mean sponsorblock and getting dislikes back are awesome too !
Arthur_Leywin@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Extensions I’d recommend: uBlock Origin, Improve YouTube, PocketTube, SponsorBlock for YouTube, BlockTube, Return Dislike to YouTube, YouTube Shorts-block.
Wildf1re@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I pay 8n Turkish lira, now it’s pennies per month. Cancel, then VPN to turkey. Head to YouTube,log in and hey presto, cheap as.
CoolBeance@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Pro tip: Buy the family plan in Asia. It’s like $5 a month here for 5 people
dustojnikhummer@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Only disadvantage is unusable Youtube Music.
gulasch_hanuta@feddit.de 1 year ago
How so? Bought it via Turkey for cheap, yt music kinda looks the same.
DAC_Protogen@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Honestly… YouTube Premium is just wasted money. It’s a difficult situation. You can watch YouTube for free and without ads already, by simply using a decent browser like Firefox and installing the uBlock Origin addon to block the ads. (Google is fighting adblockers and anything based on Chrome, so 90% of browsers out there will limit their functionality in the future, btw. Use Firefox or something based on it to keep at least a bit of your privacy and freedom of choice.) And you can even automatically skip the sponsorship messages in videos with Sponsorblock. But if you think you would support the content creators with YouTube Premium, think again. You’re mostly paying Google for their servers / platform. A platform that treats its content creators pretty bad, finds all kinds of ways to not pay them / reasons to demonetize their videos to grab 100% of the ad income and has become more and more privacy invasive and aggressive with ads over the years towards its users. And in terms of music, YouTube doesn’t license every single song individually from the musician. They just pay a royalty towards huge labels and companies like Sony, which in turn keep the absolutely most part of that for themselves instead of paying the artists. Yes, by watching videos for free with adblockers, content creators and YouTube aren’t being paid and in a way you are part of a problem. But consider this: Any subscription based content service like Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Premium starts by paying its content creators at least a bit of money, but uses bait & switch tactics to lower that payment per stream more and more over time. Once they have all the creators, music / content and viewers comfortably on board, they start grabbing the money for themselves. It’s a systemic issue with streaming platforms in general and always the short end of the stick for the very people who create the content that makes the platform successful and useful in the first place. And if you feel guilty for cutting off the often self-proclaimed “content creators”… YouTube has mechanisms in place to directly support them (while taking a cut for YouTube), like “super chats” and “super stickers” and most of them these days have a Patreon account for direct monetary support and sponsorships going on. But yes, only those content creators who actually offer quality content will benefit from these things, what about all the others, you may ask. Well, let’s be brutally honest. A whole lot of content offered on YouTube is bullshit. It’s either copying successful people’s video style, low-cost, low effort, low quality beginners stuff, clickbait, disinformation, mentally unhealthy nonsense, copyright infringing stuff, and these days even AI generated crap with no value. If all of that would stop being made because no money is to be made on the platform, we wouldn’t miss out on anything. True quality will always be supported directly by fans and sponsors. And as harsh as it sounds… the rest is obsolete and may fall victim to natural selection. Might even raise the quality of content on the platform overall. Feel free to pay for YouTube Premium, if it makes you feel better. But know that absolutely most of it will only benefit Google. Personally, I don’t have the money to pay like 130 bucks a year just to feel like a good person. And those aggressive ads are bad for mental health and sometimes are a vehicle for malware, aside from the technology behind them absolutely shredding your privacy. I’m having none of that. I’ll watch that stuff with adblockers as long as it works, and if that stops working some day, I’ll spend my time with something better, maybe going outside and touching grass or something.
victron@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And I’m pretty sure their youtube premium ads are going to be more annoying.
CriticalMiss@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Oh no. Anyway.
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Oh no!
Anyway
theoldman@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Revanced is your new friend.
focusedkiwibear@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is this their first or second price hike? I’ve had it since it was Red - I’ll probably just hang in since there isn’t a great alternative.
jungekatz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are there any alternatives for ios ? I already use revanced on my android
Crewmator@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Yattee” is a Youtube client with piped proxy support
idolofdust@lemmy.world 1 year ago
uYou+ sideloaded through AltStore/SideStore
TheDark@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Adblocker on pc, IMHO the ads on my phone aren’t that bad.
sol@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
If i make a post about my business changing his prices wouldn’t that count as advertising and spam? Why is this advertising being allowed?
madcaesar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
My buisness is shit and I’m raising my prices!
That’s not advertisement my guy.
sol@thelemmy.club 1 year ago
So i can make a post about my personal business changing its products prices?
azalty@jlai.lu 1 year ago
Most people know and use YT, I don’t think that’s an ad haha, just news about a well known and used platform
only0218@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Pain
Lobo6780@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Yeah and now I’m Gucci staying at 29,99 try per month paying with Turkish lira being in Poland and paying 4,50 zł instead of 29,99 zł. Very good deal google :)
BustedPancake@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The only thing worth a YouTube premium subscription is probably the higher bitrate formats if you download/archive all the videos you care about. Latest version of yt-dlp gives you access to those (except the highest audio quality format, I think it was 256kbps AAC), but this will probably be patched sooner rather than later.
javasux@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And also the music streaming service you get alongside it, and seamless downloads on mobile, and higher creator payouts, and background playback on mobile, and…
BustedPancake@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s pretty much implied in my message with the 256 kbps AAC which I believe is what youtube music is using (format id 141).
Downloads and background playback on mobile is already possible,
Whatever I don’t even care what you guys think anyway, I gave my opinion, you don’t like it, that’s fine.
Codandchips@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve also noticed now that the video quality option on some accounts requires YT Premium to watch in 1080 60
SaltyLemon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’ve cancelled my google subscription when they killed play music. Bunch of wankers. They went from one of the best tech companies to the worst in the span of ten years.
DozensOfDonner@mander.xyz 1 year ago
youtube has premium?
vjprema@fosstodon.org 1 year ago
I mainly use FreeTube on PC and NewPipe on phone, not to avoid ads, but I just find it a much nicer and more peaceful experience (free of recommendations, Shorts etc).
I actually do pay for YouTube Premium family subscription, but its mainly to protect my less tech-savvy family and friends from ads, and to avoid seeing ads on my Android TV projector.