YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.

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• zxo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  NewPipe costs $13.99 less on my phone (where I watch YouTube most), and it has a better UX (for me) than the official app.

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  • pazzedq@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Also check out ReVanced. It’s great.

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• benwubbleyou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I know I am gonna be one of the few, but I use YouTube as my main viewing of things. I don’t use Netflix, or any of the other services much. Premium is something I can’t be without anymore tbh, the ad free and downloading is super convenient for me and I like how a lot of my premium subscription goes to the creators I watch the most.

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  • ndguardian@lemmy.studio ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s where I’m at. I use it regularly for learning new things and for entertainment, so I don’t mind paying for it, and getting rid of ads while supporting creators is perfectly fine with me.

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t have a problem with them charging for the service. But they keep raising it dramatically over and over. You’re paying $15 a month to watch content a YouTube creator is getting 25 cents to create. If they wanted to charge $9.99 a month for a family plan I’d be all about it. At the prices they’re charging there are services running full blown movie houses

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    • sweeny@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      YouTube is a full blown movie house as well as a place for independent creators

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  • weedazz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Same, YouTube is the first app I go to when turning on my tv

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  • bizzle@lemmy.moorefam.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I pirate EVERYTHING I watch… except for YouTube. I gladly pay that.

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  • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You can get ad free Youtube with Firefox plus ublock origin for free. There are also countless YouTube Downloader programs out there. You don’t need to pay for it at all to get the features that YouTube premium offers.

    Paying to support content creators is the only reason to consider YouTube premium unless you are very tech illiterate, I guess.

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    • benwubbleyou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I get where you’re coming from, however I find it is personally easier and it is within my financial means to pay for premium instead. I am aware not everyone can but I am glad I can do that. I also support some creators through Patreon for their YouTube content as well. Currently, I am almost completely ad free with the content I consume and sometimes that means I pay money and other times I use an ad blocker. I should also note that I watch the majority of YouTube on my iPhone or on a PS4 and while there are alternatives on the App Stores I prefer the native YouTube apps.

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  • spicycape@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yup happy to pay what I pay for youtube premium and youtube music, totally worth it for both!

    Maybe I could find it expensive if it was only one service

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    • benwubbleyou@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t use YouTube music and don’t find the price too absurd considering the average daily watch time I have.

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• Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What fucking idiot pays for YouTube premium? Like, I’m sorry… But what the fuck?

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  • NPC@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I recently started paying for it when I realised the only reason I wasn’t already was the fact I didn’t want to give Google my money.

    You agree with me in this or not, but I use youtube more than any other video service. I pay 10 euro a month for Disney+ and maybe watch an episode or two maybe once or twice a week, while I’m constantly on youtube (I use it a lot for podcasts while travelling hence why I want background playback). I use youtube more than anything else and since I do wanna support the creators I watch, paying for youtube was the logical thing to do for me.

    Yes, i don’t like giving Google my money, but Disney is just as terrible of a company. At least when buying youtube premium I get benefits on a service I’d use anyway and support people I like, be it through Google.

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    • Void_Reader@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I was in the same position until a few weeks ago; mainly used YT for podcasts, downloading videos to watch while travelling etc.

      If you have an Android phone, get the NewPipe app from F-Droid. It has pretty much everything that YT Premium offers, but free. It’s been working really well for me.

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  • al4s@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    • No ads
    • Creators get more money than from ads
    • YouTube is less dependent on advertisers
    • You can get it in a bundle with YouTube music It’s not that bad of a deal. Music and YouTube are the two pieces of media I consume most, so it makes sense for me.

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    • sgtgig@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Same reasons here. Also, if you regularly watch Youtube on smart TVs/streaming boxes, etc. it’s just the most hassle free way to not get ads there.

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  • fubbernuckin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I kinda wanted to for awhile because I’d much prefer to have a service like that be paid instead of driven by ads, but it’s getting harder to do that with how they’re operating.

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  • dunestorm@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t pay specifically for YouTube with no ads, that’s just a nice bonus, the primary reason is YouTube Music which is amazing.

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  • Chickerino@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    i mean i would get it if the platform wasn’t trying to take advantage of you, but considering youtube’s moves in the past few years and especially recently with some people getting adblock-blocked, yea i don’t think supporting them further is a good idea

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  • BitingChaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I pay!

    I was paying $90 a month for cable TV. Something that I hardly watched. When I did watch it, half the time I was watching OTA channel that I could just pick up with rabbit ears.

    I was spending more time watching YouTube (everything from car crash videos, to videos of people doing lawn care, to reviews of tech stuff), and I was getting fed up with the ads.

    So, I stopped paying the $90 for TV, bought a new HDHomeRun with a new antenna, downloaded the Pluto TV app, and subscribed to YouTube Premium.

    Now I get my OTA shows, get some of the stuff I liked with cable (The 24/7 Tosh.0 channel on Pluto TV is pure delight), and I can binge all the dumb shows I want on YouTube without a single ad getting in my way.

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• sgtgig@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I pay Google for Google domains (shutting down, being transferred to somewhere) and YT premium and they didn’t tell me either of these things.

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  • TechnoBabble@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    All girls domains are transferring to SquareSpace, and you get 1 renewal at the old rate before SquareSpace can charge you whatever they want.

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    • sgtgig@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A nice email from Google explaining that would have been lovely.

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  • Pizzarules668@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I got an email saying there was a price increase coming soon

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  • atomicpeach@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I love that I learned about Google Domains being shut down from a Lemmy comment~ I was debating moving those away from Google anyway. Has anyone else already done research and narrowed down the list of decent registrars worth using?

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• Ferguson_turd@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  VPN and Argentina. Less than $2.50 US per month. Google it.

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• draoda@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  With the way YouTube treats creators with their demonetization policies, there’s no way I am going to pay for that.

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• fidelacchius@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I got an email from YouTube explaining the increase along with a few extra months at the old price before they raise it for me. 🤷‍♂️. Seems fair

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• Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  These services won’t survive Web 3.0. Interest rates are squeezing them and their only way to pivot is making their user experience worse. It’s a double edged sword for them and the rest of Web 2.0. Change is coming.

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• ndsvw@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Coreidan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    More money than brains

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• ColdWater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This doesn’t concerned me one bit because I have Revanced Premium

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• Marcy_Stella@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  So I’ve had YouTube premium for years now, going all the way back to when it was still called YouTube red so I’ve been on the legacy $10/month plan and because I got to keep my old pricing it’s stopped me from canceling at any point when I was rebudgeting and it even stopped me from getting the cheaper $8/month student plan as I didn’t want to lose my legacy pricing once I was done with college but considering they’re hitting all subscribers and not just new subscribers I’m going to jump to that student plan to pay less each month instead.

  It just doesn’t quite make sense why they’re increasing prices besides greed(or they know they can with the roll out of ad blocker blockers). If it was still during the YouTube red era they could have at least used the argument that they were re-investing in originals but they stopped creating YouTube originals. The only real new thing to YouTube premium since the rebrand from YouTube red is PIP and you can join the beta program.

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