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YouTube Raises Premium Prices in Over 15 Countries
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Google premium is $2 in India. They make you pay more money based on your income for the same product.
Is this even legal?
I guess use VPN and sign-up from India and pay only $2 per month.
Is this even legal?
I guess use VPN and sign-up from India and pay only $2 per month.
The cheapest I can get YT premium is $38, it is almost more than I pay for max, Disney, Netflix, SkyShowtime, viaplay and a local streaming service combined.
There’s pretty much a 0% chance they will raise the fees paid to content creators in the same way. There’s your screwee, right there.
”Legal”? New level of entitlement achieved 🥳 The rate in India is already nearly double what you pay in a western nation when you take average income into account. You want them to pay 10x what you pay just to make you feel better? Well done, I never thought people would go this far but you proved me wrong.
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If you have android TV, you can have a YT client without any ads. Its the only one I use now.
honestly i would pay for an ad-free experience, if they had a plan with just that in my country. i don't need the other stuff and it is too expensive if you only want to get rid of ads. and now it is even more expensive.
guess i'll continue to use adblockers. ads only really bother me the few times i use youtube on devices the blockers don't work. (which leads me to just not use it there)
guess i'll continue to use adblockers. ads only really bother me the few times i use youtube on devices the blockers don't work. (which leads me to just not use it there)
brave does not have YT ad blocker for ipad. Tried may - nothing worked.
Adblocker for my TV already skips there in video ads. No issues there.
That's different. What happens now, when an ad is triggered, it pauses the video and then plays a separate clip showing the ad, before bouncing back to your video and resuming playback. This ad clip is what ad blockers trick YT into skipping and keeping your video rolling without interruption. When the ad is embedded, there's no clip to detect, the ad is in the video as part of the entire encode - with no likely way to pause or skip. I say likely because you never know what the industrious internet community can come up with to counter it.
I should have it based on the insane amount of content I watch. However, I can’t bring myself to pay for it just for ads when I can skip in 5 seconds.
Honestly it is the same as with Netflix trying to get rid of account sharing. Alphabet will make more money in the end. Just look at Netflix's account registrations, it rose significantly since imposing the "new rules". People will put up with it. Always the same story....
Great...
I watch lots of youtube on mobile, therefore I kinda have to swallow the price increase.
I'm no tinkerer, so creating weird dns filtering systems is out of the question.
If I watched youtube mostly in browser, though, I'd ditch the subscription.
Anyway if Youtube was hellbent on keeping Youtube Music (to keep the price high), the least they could do would be making it more usable.
The way it mixes regular and music playlists is one of the most stupid things ever; it creates a jumbled mess.
If they separated the 2 (while retaining the same account), I'd use it at least a little, as some of the playlists aren't that bad.
I watch lots of youtube on mobile, therefore I kinda have to swallow the price increase.
I'm no tinkerer, so creating weird dns filtering systems is out of the question.
If I watched youtube mostly in browser, though, I'd ditch the subscription.
Anyway if Youtube was hellbent on keeping Youtube Music (to keep the price high), the least they could do would be making it more usable.
The way it mixes regular and music playlists is one of the most stupid things ever; it creates a jumbled mess.
If they separated the 2 (while retaining the same account), I'd use it at least a little, as some of the playlists aren't that bad.
Nice try. The Euro has been gaining value against the dollar for at least two years now.
Boiling the frog and force bundling Music
...when people basically just want to get rid of YT ADs
...when people basically just want to get rid of YT ADs
"Youtube is now rai.."
(60 seconds of ads)
"..sing th.."
(42 seconds of ads)
"..e price o.."
(51 seconds of ads)
"f premium"
(60 seconds of ads)
"..sing th.."
(42 seconds of ads)
"..e price o.."
(51 seconds of ads)
"f premium"
They've figured out a way to screw people that makes sense in certain cases. It would be far more costly for me to waste any of my time watching YouTube commercials than it would be to pay the extra each month for Premium. Time is money, and these companies that offer ad free plans know it full well. Luckily, I have an ad blocker that works like a charm and has for several months now. Otherwise, I'd be paying for Premium without a doubt.
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Same. After having Premium, YouTube is unbearable without it. It's the last subscription I'd give up.
Would like to know what happened to YouTube premium lite from 2021. Trialed in a few countries with no Music option just ad free. Never expanded.
As you say, life is too short. As I get older I'm starting to see the economic pressures of influence. At some point, the best choice becomes to stop watching TV entirely. If they are just going to keep tipping it more and more towards ads, the only reasonable choice is to stop using it. Piracy isn't teaching them the right lesson.
Same thing that's happening to every other individual service choice. Companies have realized (all over again) that it's more profitable to bundle. Then they can raise the price and blame all the cool new stuff they've added (that you're not using) as the reason they have to increase the price.
I wish that worked, but the past few months or so? it's a constant game of whack a mole because youtube keeps detecting them
