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YouTube Premium Receives a Price Increase
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The price keep increasing. The only reason anyone would buy is to get rid of ads. But you still have to watch sponsored sections.
DiddyParty
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They're just lucky that the content on YouTube isn't as suitable for the old high seas if you catch my drift...
I learn so much every month on YT (tech, science, philosophy, architecture, psychology, etc.). It would be a bargain at 3x the price.
Haven’t seen a commercial in years…
joshwithachance
macrumors 68030
And that's completely fair. These creators are providing essentially free content to you, and they deserve to have some control over how they get paid for it. Because Adsense pays like ****.
YouTube has been cracking down a bit more lately but there are still some good places to get it at a discounted rate. I was using some sideloaded apps recently but they can’t easily update anymore so it’s back to hoping Google doesn’t cancel my sketchy plan again.
sfrsteel
macrumors member
Raising the price while replacing so much of the content with AI.. What could possibly go wrong.. They really need to put the curbs in on all the AI slop. Its really bad. we should be able to filter out the AI.
turbineseaplane
macrumors Penryn
Brave Browser is proving to be surprisingly great for this in my testing with a non-premium extra YT account I have.
I was using brave browser as well for a while. There is just something about the UI/navigation of the official YouTube app that I have a hard time giving up. I’m willing to pay the $4.99 a month with my sketchy plan for the convenience of the official app.
Maybe do a reset on your algorithm. I barely see any AI content personally.
AppleWes
macrumors 6502a
I agree and you can tell when junk channels try to get around it once you hear the AI voice start talking (similar to AI voice in drive thru or phone systems) even if the thumbnail looks like an interesting topic.
Imagine paying a subscription and still seeing ads.
Just block ads. uBlock Origin or AdGuard works well.
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
On IOS install Enhance YT.
On my Sony TV (which runs an Android service called Google TV) install SmartTube. I Don't even have a Google TV account or anything (much less a Youtube acct) but its easy to throw the app on a thumbdrive and copy it (actually I think I did it from my shared network drive on my router that hosts all my videos found on the seven seas).
Both are tiny, fast apps and I've never seen an ad since the day I installed them. (Enhance YT is less than 1 MB!)
Edit: SmartTube includes SponsorBlock as well.. not sure about Enhance YT but I think so.
As someone posting videos, the ad-share is minimal. YouTube is keeping the lions share of premium just like Apple and Spotify would prefer you not listen to any music at all. The less you listen, the more profit they keep that never goes to the rights-holders. YouTube is the same.
This either shows how few people subscribe to YT Premium OR how crappy the rev-share is and that figure has never been published. today, there's little reason for me to promote that to subscribers.
Here's revenue last 30 days sorted by "watch page ads"
and here's 2025:
lovehateapple
macrumors 6502a
I have the monthly family plan. I just found out to switch to the annual plan I have to cancel and then re-subscribe. There is no way to just change the subscription type. So Stupid!!
