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YouTube Premium Quietly Hikes Subscription Prices in the US [Updated]
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Very well thought after thinking from corporation perspective, and guess What, for company of the size of Google, customer thinking about them first won’t necessarily lead to cheaper service fee and/or better service. Every customer from their perspective is just a mere entry in the database, nothing more.
Not saying thinking from others perspective is bad. In fact, for personal relationship, it’s good. But, in the context of dealing with corporation, individual just doesn’t matter. Google would‘ve just raised fees regardless, and they give plausible explanations to persuade the public to justify their actions, however much holds water.
Change it from Mexico to the Philippines. I wasn't able to get Argentina or India to work either, but for the Philippines I'm currently paying around $3-4 CAD
I’m currently paying for the family plan. I hope the price doesn’t change. It’s at the breaking point where I might go down the pirate route if it does. It’s currently the only streaming video subscription I have for myself
It seems that this is how it starts with all these streaming companies. The price just keeps going up up up. Then pretty soon, they start to get as expensive as the cable companies.
I agree with your point about self-entitlement. I see tons of people complaining about having to spend $10 year for an app. That's ridiculous. However, the cost of providing this service just goes down over time. It doesn't cost more. This is just greed on Google's part. They should not be allowed to just sneakily raise the price either. Current customers should be given fair warning that prices are going up and not be left to find out when they read their credit card bill, if anyone actually does that.
Sure thing. Everyone I know willing to watch ads on YouTube are poor or young and don’t realize the value of their time. Not like watching sports where you know the commercial will be three minutes. Last I knew, YouTube would have a five second or 30 second ad. Not exactly go outside weather.
Best $14 I spend a month to ensure I don’t waste time. And for live sports, I DVR it and can start about an hour or 90 minutes after it has started and FF through commercials.
I didn't realize they were so short but like I said earlier, I rarely use YouTube, other than to watch a quick DIY or something similar. Maybe a video or two per month.
We don't own a DVR.
I didn't know there is a yearly plan. While I have YouTube Premium for years, I never used the Music portion. My subscription just renewed days ago, so I'm save for another month or until officially announced. I can cancel Amazon Prime, Netflix, MAX without a question but not YouTube Premium.
Don’t necessarily blame Google. They are simply passing the cost increases on to the consumer. Retransmission fees are quickly becoming a larger portion of revenue for station and content owners. It is precisely why terrestrial broadcasters are trying to accelerate ATSC 3.0 DRM and encryption.
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When did you last renew? Since around March/April of 2023 YouTube requires the usage of a payment method of the country that you supposedly live in.
So, unless you have a philippine credit card, this trick won’t work anymore.
What about all the engaging and not mindless YT videos on the platform?
100% the same. I resisted it for so long, but after signing up I regularly watch way more YouTube content that my other streaming services.
You get to watch videos instead of wasting time and rotting your brain with commercials. Yes, maybe you can adblock your way out of youTube on a desktop browser, but what about mobile, or iPad? On your TV's OS youTube app? Or on Apple TV? If you have kids, you also get to know that they're not constantly peppered with garbage ads while watching Peppa Pig.
Trust me, it's not out of altruism.
Just cancelled my sub. It will be a pain but I will use Ad Guard and Safari instead of the app.
It's working now, but I've been reading that Google is experimenting with blocking people who run adblockers
Youtube is just another waste of time. I try to avoid it unless it’s a tutorial. I went into my watch history and noticed I saw so many videos since 2020 that it took forever to scroll through them. Imagine all the hours I lost watching random content that I forgot I ever watched.
A DVR is usually part of a streaming service. Like YouTube TV or Sling or etc.
And this article is actually about YouTube (regular premium version of YouTube videos not TV service) raising its prices.