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.
why is everything being enshittified this year? :(
Tech bubble is deflating, high interest rates are probably also a culprit
And the idea that a company that doesn’t grow every single year is somehow a failure, even if it is making millions or billions
You mean POP!?
I feel like a pop would be more extreme?
Or you can use any of these solutions:
- Android
- iOS
- Yattee with this guide
- (Adding Piped/Invidious website to Homescreen)
- Web
- Desktop
- FreeTube
- (Using any of the web solutions as PWAs)
- TV
- Android TV
- Apple TV
- Yattee with this guide
No mention of revanced? It’s a great option, has sponsorblock and all
I feel like I’m experiencing deja vu. Wasn’t there a thread just like this yesterday?
Edit: There was!
They seem to be increasing in frequency. If this is only the second one you’ve seen in the last 24h then you’re lucky.
Kinda glad my uBlock Origin is still working.
This should be illegal, actually in Europe it’s about to be…
what is illegal? Havinadblockcks, cracking down onadblocks or upping the price on the software after ““forcing”” people to move to it.
Anti Ad-Blocking Software would be (and arguably, already are) illegal as not only do ads count as a form of malware, but Anti-AdBlocks run scripts on YOUR machines without your consent, and thus are ALSO malware.
1000% in the TOS that you agreed to when you signed up, or implicitly by continuing to use the site
National laws trump TOS
The American brain can’t comprehend this
A significant number of Americans want to overturn the Enlightenment for being too woke.
More enshitification.
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 ⚰️🙏😔
The way Google is starting to abuse its position of power to crackdown on its users, its really comes to show the cracks in its armour.
It’s the beginning of the end for Google.
Long live open source software!
If we are going to do this capitalist market thing than we need competition.
Aww. Are the greedy megacorporations upset that consumers are being greedy in return? Poor megacorporations. :c
And I’m from a country where YouTube Premium isn’t even available.
Or you just continue to block the adds.
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.
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.
Yeah, no… it’s already overpriced.
Paramount + £6.99 Netflix £10.99 (standard) Youtube £12
Makes no sense… they don’t have anything like the production overheads. Stuff like Star Trek and Stranger Things are expensive. ‘10 greatest cat videos’ is not.
Heck, they don’t even pay a good fraction of their bandwidth because they put caching box in your ISP location to reduce loads. This is a huge privilege as ISPs won’t let any random companies run equipments for free in their network, which is one of a huge barrier for any YouTube competitors.
They might be allowing them to run the boxes for free, but the ISPs are saving money on bandwidth, too.
Get enough users for the ISP to care and they’ll work with you. Otherwise, you probably don’t have all that many users to begin with, so the overhead that maintaining and distributing these boxes would create wouldn’t be worth it anyway.
It “makes sense” in that, unlike those two, YT has to deal with thousands of hours of video being uploaded to their servers every minute. What they don’t pay in streaming rights, they pay in storage and bandwidth costs, plus a couple of peanuts for “moderation”, which is probably more expensive in the long run
Well it also includes a streaming music service which are normally $10/m on their own.
I can’t see the value in using youtube for music… it’s not like I can watch music videos in my car. That’s worth $0 to me, and I imagine the majority. Spotify is better… or apple music if you’re on the fruit side.
Youtube music doesn’t have music videos, not sure what you are talking about. It’s just a clone of play music after they shut it down.
Unpopular opinion: this is a good thing.
(Waits for down votes… )
This is healthy for the ecosystem, it makes it possible for other video platforms to compete, and be sustainable. Google providing the loss leader in video streaming makes it difficult for other platforms to exist, and sustain themselves, because they don’t have Google’s war chest.
So it’s going to be a difficult transition, but now there is wiggle room for other platforms to exist. And with 1 gigabit, and 10 gigabit home internet connections becoming more common globally, we have options for more interesting gorilla distributed video streaming.
10Gb to the home? Where have you seen this, and.for how much? I had no idea that was a thing for residential
64.75 Swiss Franks per month from my ISP, it’s the same price as their 1 Gb/s and 25 Gb/s plans.
I’m currently still on 1Gb/s because buying the faster router, switch and network cards to make use of more is kind of expensive
I get 2gbps to my home in singapore for $30USD a month.
10gbps is available in a few places globally, but its becoming more common. i.e. https://www.utopiafiber.com/10-gbps-info/
Wow that’s nice! I get 600/25mbps for $80USD in the US, coax 😞 wish fiber-to-the-premise was a possibility in my neighborhood
Even that’s twice what I get. The prices here are disgusting… I get 300mbps for $100… Yay monopolies!
I tried to get youtube premium because the ads are wack af and they won’t even let me.
well i for one ain’t paying shit to google, nor am i watching any ads 👍
