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Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month
(9to5google.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I do pay for a couple subscriptions, but in the 2000s I had a subscription service for video games called GameTap and it was great except they could add and remove games on a whim and when you stop paying you lose access to all of it. So you need to remember a subscription service is ephemeral and there's long term benefits to having the files yourself.