The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing $2 to $13.99 per month in the US. YouTube has yet to...
  • Max_Power@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Oh I thought about subscribing for a couple of months, then again I have cancelled Netflix because money is tight. Now I have another reason not to subscribe to YT Premium.

    Thanks, Google!

        • Iridium@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          It’s not bad if you max out the family subscription (5 members) and use YouTube music.

          Still, I’m a hypocrite because I absolutely hate their habit of hiding features behind the paywall, and making ads more obnoxious to irritate users into paying for premium.

          • Anamana@feddit.deEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Ah ok, certainly makes sense for ur usecase. I didn’t meet anyone who was YouTube music yet. Does it have high quality audio or is it just YouTube quality?

        • Humanius@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          It really boils down to a few reasons:

          • I don’t like ads, and I prefer not to see them
          • Running a platform like YouTube is not cheap, and I understand that Google needs money to keep things running.
          • The revenue of Premium is split between YouTube and the creators, much like ad revenue is. So it also supports the channels that I follow.
            • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 year ago

              If you don’t want to be tracked, you shouldn’t own a smartphone.

              Because let’s face it, you’re never going to be able to stop it unless you get rid of all your tech.

              • xts@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                1 year ago

                Tracking != taking all of your data and selling it for profit. That’s what Google does with YouTube, even if you pay for premium. So I see no reason to pay for it.

                Not to mention a premium sub costs more than most streaming services out there, including double the price of lots of Plex shares that have thousands of movies and shows to watch.

                • Anus B. Samus @feddit.deEnglish
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                  1 year ago

                  I don’t understand the Google selling data argument. I thought Google was an ad broker. Someone goes to Google and says I want to play ads on YouTube for my awesome baking book, play it for people who are into baking. YouTube has the watch history of people and is able to tell who watches a lot of baking content. That’s not selling data to someone in my books as the advertiser does not receive any personal details about the people where the ad is played. He is just buying impressions. Or am I missing something?

              • Anamana@feddit.deEnglish
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                1 year ago

                Imo it should be a choice whether we are tracked for monetary gains or not, and not a necessary evil. But with most basic services/devices you are not even presented with that choice. E.g. when buying a phone.

                And if you do have a choice, sometimes accessibility is restricted so much that you can’t participate in our networked society.

                I think we have to find ways to provide access to the most basic services with a minimum of tracking. Anything else should still be an option of course.

                How to achieve this? I don’t know. But EU regulations certainly wouldn’t hurt for now.

          • Anamana@feddit.deEnglish
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            1 year ago

            I didn’t know the channels get some of the revenue. Do you get to influence who the money goes to? Like a twitch prime sub?

            • Humanius@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 year ago

              I’m not entirely certain, but as far as I’m aware it is divided based on watch-time.

              • Anamana@feddit.deEnglish
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                1 year ago

                On your watch-time? I mean then it’s cool, cause you don’t even have to do anything. On the other hand I would probably have to log out to watch content I don’t want to support financially.

            • WxFisch@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              1 year ago

              It replaces the ad revenue the channel would otherwise have gotten from your view, at a higher rate than an ad impression.

        • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
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          1 year ago

          Because I use YouTube more than every streaming app and my Plex server combined. And the creators I watch get money and I don’t have to see ads

        • _finger_@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I use it so much for work that I just can’t rely on a typical ad blocker and I can’t justify not paying for it at this point.

          • Anamana@feddit.deEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Haha fair, I mean it’s cool that people pay for it. I was just curious what the reasons were, because I never thought about it.

        • Relo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          1 year ago

          I got premium because I have ADHS and need to listen to something when I want to sleep or do chores. With premium I can turn my phone screen off of let it run in the background.

          • Anamana@feddit.deEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Dunno if you have iOS or Android, but on Android you can also just use Newpipe :)

      • Kekzkrieger@feddit.deEnglish
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        1 year ago

        you hopefully mean you had a prem subscription, the more people quit because of price policy the better it will be for everyone

  • MrJameGumb@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    People actually pay money to watch YouTube? I thought that was some kind of elaborate practical joke

    • exi@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Honestly by far the best subscription I have.

      13€/month to never see ads on any device, give a lot more money to creators and free access to YouTube music so I don’t need Spotify anymore. It’s amazing how much you get for comparatively little money.

  • Locrin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I only had the lite version of premium so I could watch youtube adfree on my phone and tv, but then they started pushing shorts so hard I had to scroll past them to see my subscriptions so I cancelled. Using adblock in desktop browser now so I can block the shorts shelf.

  • sf1tzp@programming.devEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Wait, what the FUCK!?!

    This price increase is live for new subscribers as seen on youtube.com/premium. Instead of $11.99, YouTube Premium now costs $13.99/month. Meanwhile, it’s $18.99 if you’re subscribing from the iOS YouTube app.

    I’ve been paying $4/month over market rate this whole time?

    • freundTech@feddit.deEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah. That’s normal if you subscribe to things through (iOS or android) apps.

      Google and apple don’t allow apps you roll their own payment methods to “protect their users”. Apps have to use the Google/Apple payment system where Google/Apple take a 30% cut of every payment.

      With YouTube being owner by Google they probably don’t have to pay those 30% on Android, but they have to on iOS.