YouTube Premium Receives a Price Increase

[adamjackson]

I think that I read that these companies make way more money on advertising based viewers anyway so they can continue squeezing people who do pay because honestly they want you to watch ads. They make a ton of money on people watching ads and therefore they could make this $25 a month and probably still wish you were watching ads instead.

 

[Corefile]

What ads?

 

[ghostface147]

Still valuable to me at that price. I know there are ad blockers and such, but it’s a cat and mouse game with that sometimes. I’ll look at YouTube lite though.

 

[Entilzha]

Doesn't work on the TV, which is where 90% of our household YouTube is watched. Still don't pay for it.

YouTube Viewership On TV Screens Exceeds Mobile For First Time In U.S.

In his annual letter to the YouTube community, CEO Neal Mohan said the video giant now gets more U.S. viewership on TV sets than on mobile devices.

deadline.com

Sadly true. My dad refuses to even make a YouTube account, let alone pay for premium, so he gets to sit through Every. Single. Ad.

 

[Ishimura]

Huh? What's left then?

What?

 

[AppleMega]

There are commercials on YouTube? I had no idea.

 

[CocktailHour]

One more reason to say nope!

 

[Heat_Fan89]

YouTube Premium offers ad-free videos

I get ad free videos without YTP.

 

[rensuchan]

I used to use TV apps to watch YouTube at night before sleep, but the ads got so bad that I put together a cheap computer just to watch via Brave.

If YouTube (Alphabet/Google) wants more money, they should just introduce a cheap plan that does nothing but remove ads with no other features. Make it cheap enough that people will buy it, like $2.99/month, and then they can also save the development costs they spend trying to fight ad blockers back and forth too.

 

[NazgulRR]

Prices are bloody ridiculous, I use sharingful so I get to split a family plan with random people. So I'm paying £4.60 a month for a premium plan which is far more reasonable, been using that method for a year without issues. But with Google being the dicks that they are, they'll will probably put a stop to that eventually as well.

I used to use the VPN method to hop around the world, but I got fed up of being blocked after a short time, plus it's getting harder to find a working country these days.

Of course I can block them with extensions and I still use those browser extensions, but I can't use those on the Apple TV or the native YT app.

Which website did you use to find randoms to split with?

 

[Apple Mac Daz]

Only time I used Premium was when the VPN sign up worked

 

[Plutonius]

Sadly true. My dad refuses to even make a YouTube account, let alone pay for premium, so he gets to sit through Every. Single. Ad.

At least free Youtube has a skip button so commercial breaks are not that long.

 

[Entilzha]

At least free Youtube has a skip button so commercial breaks are not that long.

True enough. But the unskippable ones are becoming far less rare.

 

[subjonas]

Watching videos is ad free. IMHO this is the best plan, particularly if you have Apple one bundle with music already.

Non-shorts non-music videos.

Everything else?

What?

Not sure if you noticed the part in bold:

With this plan, ads are still shown on music videos, YouTube Shorts, and when you search or browse

Edit- oh I see, it means the ads on the side of the page. I thought it meant ads in videos you watch from searching or browsing.

 

[RoadWarrior56]

YouTube has gotten to be virtually unwatchable when using the Apple app on an iPad, as the number and length of unskippable ads is getting worse. I will not be extorted, as I watch more and more using other methods. In the long run, I will probably move away from YouTube altogether. I hope greed kills them and other streaming services off in the long run.

 

[kppolich]

Wish they'd offer a cheaper version for those of us that don't care about YouTube music

 

[now i see it]

They should be paying ME to watch YouTube

 

[WilliApple]

I guess we got to sail the seven seas...
oh wait that wont work too well here lol

 

[Ishimura]

Not sure if you noticed the part in bold:

Edit- oh I see, it means the ads on the side of the page. I thought it meant ads in videos you watch from searching or browsing.

Those are ads in the interface, not in videos. The majority of videos - outside of music and Shorts - don’t have ads.

I’m not sure why people or how people get so confused about the Premium Lite tier or act like it’s a scam. It’s really not very complicated and it’s a good deal.

 

[Radeon85]

Which website did you use to find randoms to split with?

I used www.sharingful.com, they have other things to split with but I haven't tried those, YT works great though.

 

[joshwithachance]

The sheer ****ing GREED omg... YouTube doesn't even make the content we consume on it.

 

[goodcow]

Wish they'd offer a cheaper version for those of us that don't care about YouTube music

They do, that's Premium Lite.

 

[MacInTO]

I guess we got to sail the seven seas...
oh wait that wont work too well here lol

It does if one is willing to use Android. I will always use an Android device because of this and a few other reasons.

 

[Agent007]

YouTube Premium offers ad-free videos, the ability to play videos in the background without having the YouTube app visible, the ability to download videos for offline playback

I highly recommend ad-blockers and YT downloader apps. Some will argue this is detrimental to YouTube creators and I will argue that it hurts the overproduced content farms and AI video farms even more. Those channels are about clicks and profit no matter what. For true creators and the true entertainers there's a lot more to be gained from producing good videos than the pennies YouTube pays out. Hence why most so many videos are sponsored and why creators are always pointing out how they accept donations through Patreon.

 

[Abby tt]

AD block much?