YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.

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YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown
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YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.::Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.

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*you pay YouTube for the content they didn't make or they turn the thumbscrews.

This is misleading : a substantial part is distributed to the content creators. Traditionally the YouTube cut is alleged to be rather low.

Because it costs nothing to run data centers, employ thousands of people, distribute exabytes of data.