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YouTube TV Gets Major Price Hike
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The point is that some people are not slaves to "content providers."
Where I live OTA broadcasts stopped in 2004 when they switched to those short-range digital broadcasts. There never was cable, and Dish raised prices to my breaking point in 2013 (I think it was) and I dumped them. By the time streaming was a thing I had lost interest in "content".
YouTube TV's monthly price has increased 137% since its debut:
• 2017 $34.99
• 2019 $49.99
• 2022 $64.99
• 2023 $72.99
• 2025 Subscription Canceled
• 2017 $34.99
• 2019 $49.99
• 2022 $64.99
• 2023 $72.99
• 2025 Subscription Canceled
When I first signed up for YouTube TV, it was great and $39.99. I killed it after it got into the $50's.. just not worth it and they keep adding stuff I don't care about. If they had a basic channels feature to watch news and local sports for like $25, I'd be interested but this is insane. I now use PlexTV with a HDHomeRun and get over-the-air channels but live in an area where I only get a few stations.
Sports is what makes up about 80 percent of the programming costs YTTV (and every other MVPD) pays.
The business model of every company is to lock you in then squeeze every dollar out of you, even though most large companies are showing massive profits. Streaming is the new Cable TV.
A great deal of predictable (and played out) caterwauling that signifies nothing unless people cancel and it becomes very noticeable for YouTube. Until that happens, so what? Making threats to cancel is super easy on these types of forums because there's never going to be way to show someone followed up on it. People won't cancel en masse because they will find a reason to keep it. Same thing with NY Times subscriptions.
>as they are constantly blocking my VPN service.
Yeah, and that will happen with Netflix if that company *enforced their own rules*. Why do people keep thinking a VPN is some secret, magic key to everything? YouTube is fully within their rights to block stuff, so you gamble and if you lose, well, go somehwere else.
Vote with your wallet or just shut up. It's that simple.
>as they are constantly blocking my VPN service.
Yeah, and that will happen with Netflix if that company *enforced their own rules*. Why do people keep thinking a VPN is some secret, magic key to everything? YouTube is fully within their rights to block stuff, so you gamble and if you lose, well, go somehwere else.
Vote with your wallet or just shut up. It's that simple.
This. As the pandemic receded the fast-food industry had really inflated their prices, and a lot of folks just said, "This is too much" and business went down for them, a lot.
I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice that the "$2 menus" and "$5 meals" are coming back. Its nothing but greed.
And I'd like to know if the Burger Kings in your area/country are doing this: Have a Whopper Meal Deal for $8, which you can upgrade to a "Medium" for $1.50 more or a "Large" for $2.50 more. Order the Meal Deal, and the person at the mic asks, "Regular or Large?" I say, "Just the Small". They say "We don't sell a Small, would you like Regular or Large?" I say, "I want the one for $8 that you have on your sign out here!" "We don't sell that, would you like Regu..." "WHY ARE YOU ADVERTISING AN $8 DEAL IF YOU'RE NOT SELLING IT!?! Them: " crickets ". I drove off. I need to check today if they're doing that inside the restaurant too, makes my blood boil. It's just greed.
I'm going to vote with my wallet and caterwaul, so 'nyah' to you!
Who needs You Tube/Google, period? Google is collecting, watching everything you watch/stream and how much time you spend on each video, etc. That information is then shared with the NSA to be stored in the event you become a person of interest to the government. AppleOne, @$37.99 through Apple TV has everything you need and even adding Paramount+, Showtime for $12.99 and two $5/month subscriptions to Content providers on X is only $61 per month. Apple doesn't share its information with the government. I also have 2 Rumble subscriptions which I purchase annually for $50/annually which is roughly another $100/12=$8.33/mo., still under $70/month. Rumble doesn't share your information with the government. if there is a series or movie outside those parameters, I just purchase them and add to my library on AppleTV. When calculating the monthly fees for other services, I found it is just cheaper to buy any particular movies or TV shows I want. Stand alone Netflix, which I purchase for a family member who is confined to the VA, is ~$25/month for 4K since he has a 4K TV.
It is far more cost effective for most people to take a little time and evaluate subscription services that are actually wanted, watched, and needed. If you're a podcast enthusiast, there are some great services that include multiple shows. But even if you just stream a single, 3 hour podcast a day on Apple Podcasts, along with the AppleOne for music, TV, Fitness, there really isn't time for much more. You Tube videos are free (selling your information is lucrative) so you still have all the "how-to" and animal videos available. FOMO and not being aware of recurring subscription costs is causing most families to waste a lot of money on subscription services that they don't use often enough to justify. Most people have Family, Employment, house and yard work, kids activities, social activities, laundry, cooking, shopping and don't really have time for more than a few hours a day, at most, to sit and stare at a screen. Even my podcast time is spend with AirPods moving around the house cooking, cleaning, laundry, feeding and walking dogs, or working out at the fitness center. $83/month for YouTube adds up to around a $1000/year. $1000/year makes for a nice Christmas for someone or even a big chunk of money for a new MacBook upgrade :0)).
Almost forgot.....PrimeVideo. I never watch it, but originally subscribed for $49(?)/year to get the free shipping, since I spent far more than that on shipping costs. When Amazon added video and upped the costs , had to reevaluate but 2 day shipping to the front door seemed reasonable. BUT, when Amazon added in advertisements and offered to delete the ads for a price on top of the annual fee, that just ticked me off and I cancelled. Discovered there are still no shipping costs if the order is over $35. Still get the order in 2 days.
This is the world we live in now....but is a good idea to look at the monthly subscriptions on the bank account every month and see which ones you actually used. Not criticizing anyone, as I got sucked into the $$/mo. universe and figure I'm saving around $1500 per year with more mindful, aware expenditure on only what I actually watch/listen to.
It is far more cost effective for most people to take a little time and evaluate subscription services that are actually wanted, watched, and needed. If you're a podcast enthusiast, there are some great services that include multiple shows. But even if you just stream a single, 3 hour podcast a day on Apple Podcasts, along with the AppleOne for music, TV, Fitness, there really isn't time for much more. You Tube videos are free (selling your information is lucrative) so you still have all the "how-to" and animal videos available. FOMO and not being aware of recurring subscription costs is causing most families to waste a lot of money on subscription services that they don't use often enough to justify. Most people have Family, Employment, house and yard work, kids activities, social activities, laundry, cooking, shopping and don't really have time for more than a few hours a day, at most, to sit and stare at a screen. Even my podcast time is spend with AirPods moving around the house cooking, cleaning, laundry, feeding and walking dogs, or working out at the fitness center. $83/month for YouTube adds up to around a $1000/year. $1000/year makes for a nice Christmas for someone or even a big chunk of money for a new MacBook upgrade :0)).
Almost forgot.....PrimeVideo. I never watch it, but originally subscribed for $49(?)/year to get the free shipping, since I spent far more than that on shipping costs. When Amazon added video and upped the costs , had to reevaluate but 2 day shipping to the front door seemed reasonable. BUT, when Amazon added in advertisements and offered to delete the ads for a price on top of the annual fee, that just ticked me off and I cancelled. Discovered there are still no shipping costs if the order is over $35. Still get the order in 2 days.
This is the world we live in now....but is a good idea to look at the monthly subscriptions on the bank account every month and see which ones you actually used. Not criticizing anyone, as I got sucked into the $$/mo. universe and figure I'm saving around $1500 per year with more mindful, aware expenditure on only what I actually watch/listen to.
Nope, that's enough for me. I'll pause it until next football season. These price hikes are just getting too much.
Is there a way to watch Youtube on Apple TV, with an ad blocker? It's very painful watching sometimes, with all the interruptions. And some ads on the shows my kid watches are inappropriate.
Yes and no. There are still ways to keep the price down.
-Over-the-air Tivo for network TV, news, etc (free)
-Hulu+Disney - $3 per month on Black Friday
-Max-$6.58 monthly
-Paramount-around $11 monthly (though we are in an intro deal currently)
-Peacock-$20 for the year Black Friday
-Netflix 2-screen deal-$15.49 a month
-Apple TV+ with an Apple1 subscription, which equates to something like $8 a month I think
-Amazon Prime, which equates to around $12 a month
Overall, as long as we stick with ad-based plans and black friday deals, we pay somewhere in the neighborhood of $60 per month for everything (note that we don't do sports).
And conveniently, just yesterday I took advantage of a speed increase offer with FIOS that comes with a year of Free Netflix and fee Max.
If you get Hulu, Paramount, and Peacock, that comes close to covering network or cable TV shows you'd watch. I'm lucky that I don't care about sports, and screw all cable news. We subscribe to alot of streaming services, but YT TV and the similar services are very easy for us to ignore, thankfully.
Decades of statistical and behavioral analysis proves them right. Inertia is a powerful force.
Ugh, if it wasn't for all the sports programming on YouTube I would left after the last rounds of price hikes. ESPN/Disney for one jacks up their fees to cable companies almost every year. Of course these companies don't absorb them, but simply passes them off to their subscribers.
My experience is I can't watch shows from the past, or at least watch them with the ability to skip commercials or other parts of the show I don't want to watch, unless I have added them to my DVR. It is that history of adding dozens of shows that I'd be losing based on the cancelation warning dialog.
I have years of adding shows. I don't watch them all, or probably even 1% of them. But it is nice to be able sit down and watch the most recent Nova season's shows because I added them 6+ years ago.
When I had cable I hooked up an external spinning hard drive to the box and sometimes it'd add a whole lot of hours of recording capacity to the 20 hours (as I recall) of the cable boxes very small hard drive. But if the power went out the cable box would "forget" that there were shows on the external drive. The unlimited hours on YTTV is really nice, and the other "cloud DVR" services have such limited capacity that it makes no sense to use them.
