$400 a year for YouTube premium.

I'd gladly pay that much for a robust ad blocker!

Got the same bullshit email, total dick move by Google and I'll be cancelling. It's just pure greed.

I'm be exploring the ad blocking and/or VPN options.

Google need to separate YouTube and Music.

Jesus, how do they justify that price?

They charge more than Netflix yet they don't even make any of their own content?

I'm always amaze by the fact that all these streaming platform do is give you access to others content ( they dont create shit), but they get to keep 98.7% of the revenue, because.

It's times like these when I'm glad I refused to even log into Google to view YouTube, let alone buy subscriptions. I also refuse to view downloading content (without logging in) that's freely available to be viewed as piracy.

These subscriptions are undoubtedly a rip-off. For those saying creators get a "cut", there's a reason why sites like Patreon exist. It's substantially better for creators if you subscribe to them directly that way and get your videos from Patreon. Same with Nebula etc. If I really had to pay then I'd do that (and do already for some stuff that was never on YouTube anyway).

You can get enough subs for the price of a YT premium to get plenty of content to watch, even if you don't want to subvert Google. So there's zero reason to throw money at them for this. None at all.

I'm curious what's driving this revenue rush at Alphabet. It almost feels like something internal, like they're trying to make it actually self sufficient based on cloud pricing.

I can't blame them. The fight to block adblockers is an expensive one, and they went all in on the fight. /s

Asshats.

E: adding the sarcasm mark, in case it wasn't obvious.

Revanced project, smart YouTubeTV and/or Smart YouTubeNext, ublock origin, and xManager for Spotify.

imagine paying $204/yr instead of taking 20 seconds to download ublock

All prices seem to be going up around the board. I just got an email saying my Turkish Family Plan (via VPN) is increasing from TRY ₺59.99 to TRY ₺115.99. That's $3.29 to $6.36.

For reference this is about $20 USD

nearly double the price for the same thing! this after disney raised prices, max downgraded service and kept prices the same, and disney is about to finish buying out hulu in order to, I'm sure, raise prices. Yarr!

People saying I'll cancel will not cancel. I've seen so many corp simps in the last few years that I lost faith in humanity

Enshittification of youtube is definitely progressing very rapidly.

Personally, I'm a fan of

• Piped for browser
• SmartTube for android app/android TV

For those who must have the official paid version, keep an eye on Ozbargain Youtube.

Free trials and/or VPN + subscribe overseas for a fraction of the price, eg Individual has been $2.34 a month via India, A$2.30 via Turkey

(this is before any potential price increases in those countries)

Does this mean that for people who don't pay they're going to make the ads twice as annoying?

uncritical support for the mad lad accelerationists working undercover at youtube premium

Well... I guess it helps creators at least.

Unless youtube changes their cut

What is the benefit of "Youtube Premium", anyway? Is that just Youtube without ads?

Yea it's a pretty crazy increase. time to VPN up and move the family plan to india or turkey.

1. selfhost jellyfin
2. automatically download youtube videos based on a txt file with channel urls
3. redirect youtube links to invidious for all other use case.
4. never directly visit the youtube site ever again, depending on other service you use, no longer need a google account.
5. no profit cause i never paid a dime but no regrets either.

November last year the plan in CAD went from $17.99 to $22.99 a month, I took that because.i get a lot of use out of it. I haven't got an email yet but $46 a month will get it cancelled.

We will own nothing, don't pay, sail the seas mate.

I didn’t buy it in the first place because it was too expensive, this only further cements my never buying it.

Happily had Spotify for over a decade now and no issues paying a reasonable price there.

Marx wasn’t lying, that rate of profit can tend to fall

It costs so much more to get the packets across the ocean, right?

Change your VPN to turkey, login via incognito, buy premium for $4 a month. Price was just under $3 before raise.

Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall goes brrr