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…
Feel like we’re watching a lot of tech companies making a lot of bad decisions all at once. Reddit, Google, Netflix, Meta, Twitter, Hulu, etc. Regardless of the individual circumstances and bad actors in each case, it feels like they’re all being fueled by a shared, low-key desperation.
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Interest rates. This bursts the bubble.
Easy money pipeline has been cut off, makes sense we’re all seeing this kind of thing at the same time when you consider it from the POV of the investors bankrolling these companies.
The venture capital free money train is gone and they’re realizing their revenue models make zero sense.
If you’re just a bit tech savvy and don’t use your tv as your primary YouTube player then it’s reasonably easy to avoid ads and download stuff on YouTube no matter if you’re on Android, PC, or even iOS (yes without jailbreak).
Revanced Manager for phones. SmartTubeNext for TVs.
Even with a TV there are options. I know Android/Google TV and LG WebOS both have apps available to sideload.
LG webOS? Please do tell what to do? I hate watching YT on my LG tv, its like two ads between each and every video…
I haven’t done it personally because I have an Android TV box connected to my LG TV with SmartTubeNext, but here’s an archived reddit post with a guide for it.
Care to share iOS tips for the uninitiated?
You can install uyou+ (a tweaked youtube app, found on github) via sideloadly, which requires a mac or pc.
You can look it up, theres plenty of guides. If you get stuck feel free to DM me or reply here.
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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.
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
YouTube is a full blown movie house as well as a place for independent creators *Oops I was wrong
It appears to me they’ve stopped their original productions.
Same, YouTube is the first app I go to when turning on my tv
You can get ad free Youtube with Firefox plus ublock origin for free. There are even Firefox extensions to skip the paid sponsor ads in every youtube video nowadays. 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 I would consider YouTube premium unless I was very tech illiterate, I guess. YouTube music also seems somewhat worth the price, in my opinion.
Edit: This comment can come off as condescending. I don’t mean it as such, if you pay for YouTube premium that’s cool. I just wanted to make it known that people don’t have to pay YouTube money to get those features if they don’t want to.
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.
What fucking idiot pays for YouTube premium? Like, I’m sorry… But what the fuck?
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.
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.
I’ve had new pipe before switching over to premium. After coming from vanced, new pipe still just feels too clunky for me and like the recommendation feed and using shorts here and there. If new pipe was more like vanced was, I’ll probably switch back but until then I’ll think I’ll cough up for premium
- 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I must be grandfathered in. I have YouTube Music for $9.99 a month that also includes YouTube Premium
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.
With the way YouTube treats creators with their demonetization policies, there’s no way I am going to pay for that.
Maybe mentally I’ve already been hit with inflation, but $2 and “significant increase” do not tie out to me.
i guess they’ve done the least [that i’m noticeably aware of] to destroy the site recently
And yet they will probably say that subscribers are up, without mentioning that most of them are from countries like India where it costs $22.50 CAD per year.
Wow, and I just cancelled mine yesterday, crazy timing.
How can billion dollar companies justify this bullshit, when their main source of income is advertisers anyways?
YouTube premium is their way of hedging bets against advertiser revolts they don’t want a controversy like Elsagate or Logan Paul’s forest adventures to cause their profits to tank.
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
Is there any alternative on Xbox? I kinda doubt it. I have premium mainly because that’s where I watch it. Getting sick of every tech company shoving their fingers in my purse though
Doubt it. Your best bet will be an Android TV with side loading.
What do you need an announcement for? They’ll have informed the affected subscribers by mail, as they always do, and adjusted the prices on the sign-up page. Who else needs to be informed? I don’t really give a shot about the pricing of a service I don’t use.
I’m a subscriber and received no such notification. This is the first I’m hearing of it.
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