YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | Engadget
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Google has quietly increased the price of YouTube Premium by a significant $2 from $12 to $14, according to the updated signup page..

YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That’s a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.::Google has quietly increased the price of YouTube Premium by a significant $2 from $12 to $14, according to the updated signup page…

      • Void_Reader@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        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.

    • al4s@lemmy.worldEnglish
      92·
      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.
      • sgtgig@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        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.

          • pazukaza@lemmy.mlEnglish
            12·
            1 year ago

            Also the fact that they were sneaky about it. But this is just how YouTube does things. They know being loud is the best way to get hate, just like what happened to Netflix. They have pushed longer ads in sneaky ways over the years. Now they are evaluating blocking ad-blockers, also in sneaky ways, they are never loud about it.

      • Sightline@lemmy.mlEnglish
        13·
        1 year ago

        Consider this: It’s a shit business model.

        A lot of things should have been wiped out a long time ago via survival of the fittest.

    • Fubber Nuckin'@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      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.

    • dunestorm@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      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.

      • notatoad@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        yeah, ad-free youtube, downloads, and background playback is only a couple dollars more than spotify. it’s one of the easiest subscriptions for me to justify.

    • Chickerino@feddit.nlEnglish
      2·
      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

    • BitingChaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      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.