Submitted 1 year ago by L4s@lemmy.world [bot] to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-premium-global-price-increase-3381637/
YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.::Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.
I was honestly thinking about buying premium, so I would support the creators. Welp, that’s out of the window.
See if they have Patreon, or better LiberaPay or OpenCollective. If not, you can ask them to make one.
Wait… YouTube Kids has ads without Premium?!
Anyone who grew up in the 80s can tell you that we spent hours every Saturday morning watching ads for toys disguised as cartoons in between ads for toys not disguised at all.
A few months ago I was thinking about getting YouTube premium. It’s a platform I’m on everyday and have been using it for years. But they decided to block adblockers and increase prices, so they can go fuck themselves.
I’m on the go fuck yourselves side even though I use YT everyday quite a lot.
Us Aussies got it hard, price went up from 18 to 33. I’m strongly considering this to be my last month.
See you in the other side ⚰️🙏😔
I pay for YouTube because I leave it on basically all day. It’s worth the 14ish(I don’t remember) a month. I just wish more of my pay would go to the creators.
If you’re happy with the service then I hope it remains a good cost for you, to me it costs too much for what I would actually want it for.
The less people who watch YouTube, the less valuable those ads are, and therefore the less valuable premium just be.
Have YouTube viewers been going up to justify ads being more valuable?
Video serving can cost a lot of bandwidth. Hence it could be sensible.
YouTube don’t even pay a fraction of those bandwidth as they run caching box on your ISP for free. ISPs won’t let any random companies run equipments for free in their network, so this is a significant competitive advantage. You’ll have to be a company as big as Google, Apple, or Netflix to do this.
For youtube revanced, use revanced manager
There are so many ways to watch YouTube without ads on all devices. I don’t see ads anywhere in my house. And when I like a creator so much, I support them directly. Fuck Google. If they were reasonable with their prices/practices and paid people more I’d buy premium.
How to avoids ads in YouTube on Fire TV Stick?
uBlock beat the filters almost immediately. Annoyingly for google once you’ve downloaded something its out of their hands.
How? I keep having to clear cookies. Now use Firefox. With logged in window I find the video I want and I open it in private window with ublock origin enabled. No warning in private logged out window.
I’d even be willing to consider paying them, if it was not as pricey and came with less bullshit.
Obviously, even compared to yt premium, third party Foss solutions are by far superior, but to support the creators, it would be okay.
Yet, when they higher the already ridiculous price further, I’m noting out.
Yeah, I don’t want shitty music streaming, strip that out and give me a no ads only option for like $100 a year and I’d consider it
That’s still a pretty high price
I will do everything within my power to take from them as much and give back as little as I can.
I don’t need YouTube that much. It’s competing with books, more traditional TV shows and movies, and Nebula / Curiosity Stream and Wondrium / LinkedIn Learning. I guess I might miss some reaction videos, but oh well.
YouTube sucks ass now anyway, just don’t watch it
But you’re Assman, shouldn’t you be enjoying a bit of ass sucking? 🙃
Nah, there’s still plenty of great creators on it.
The horror. Paying for your content. Shudders
Can confirm, my YTM subscription in Poland went up from 9.99 to 10.99 PLN.
I’m shocked /s
Personally I’d say they should regulate the ads that are being rolled out so we don’t have constant obvious scams but oh wait that would make for a better and safer user experience
I have thought about this but haven’t seen anything about whether or not they will regulate the ads better. I enjoy not having obnoxious, repetitive ads. I also enjoy having no ads and directly supporting the creator of the media I like.
I tried to get youtube premium because the ads are wack af and they won’t even let me.
Aren’t there sites that offer YouTube premium sharing for something like 3 euros and change? I remember landing on one while I was meandering the tubes.
I’ve seen that with spotify but have been told its a scam. So not convinced.
I’m so glad I early adopted Google play music all access. It locked me in at a permanent lower rate, and that got rolled into YouTube premium with the release of YouTube music.
Seems like this could be turned around if enough people would just consciously refuse to patronize anything they saw advertised on youtube.
That seems like it could work, and I would love to say you’re right, but many of the companies advertising—especially as we’re seeing more and more of the big players—have a really diverse ad spend budget so their dollars are all over the place. Because so many ads aren’t looking for a direct sale but rather increase your awareness when you DO want to buy, say, laundry detergent, there’s no way to tie your purchase to having seen an ad (though marketers LOVE to try and draw lines to efforts, many are hazy at best). So seeing ads and consciously not buying what you’re seeing could in theory lead to a dip in sales, but the watch numbers are high, so no adveriser would be able to tell that dip is because of youtube, or podcasts or… uh… radio?.
So sadly the best way to hurt the system is to a) keep blocking the ads so the watch level is low and the advertisers want out or b) drop the watch level naturally by picking another platform.
Source: a lot of time in advertising.
ropegirth@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
They’ve already calculated, how high and in how many increments, they can rise their prices, while still coming out ahead. For every country specifically.