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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.
The amount of downvotes on comments trying to help people not get price gouged and comments supporting these subscription price increases shows me just how many corporate shills are actually out there. No wonder these corps keep getting away with this bullshit.
Edit: Wow so many people took personal offense to this...almost like it they know it's true but are afraid to admit it. Everyone is hurting financially right now, some more than others. Yet year over year, the prices keep going up even with record inflation and record profits. Keep shilling folks, enjoy emptying your wallets for the millionaires while you struggle.
Ads are going to pay for it either way.
Do you actually know that? I would bet that the cost of hosting the damn near infinite amount of content on YouTube would probably actually outweigh the amount they make on ads. At least if every other platform is to go off of.
It absolutely costs a lot. Google also has a borderline monopoly for online advertising.
That's on top of absolutely harvesting your data and selling it as well. You're acting like Google is a non-profit or some shit. They're a giant corporation that doesnt give a shit about you.
I say this as someone with a google phone and generally likes Google products. But you've got to take a step back and realize what they are.