YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.

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YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | Engadget

YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.::Google has quietly increased the price of YouTube Premium by a significant $2 from $12 to $14, according to the updated signup page..

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What fucking idiot pays for YouTube premium? Like, I'm sorry... But what the fuck?

No ads
Creators get more money than from ads
YouTube is less dependent on advertisers
You can get it in a bundle with YouTube music It's not that bad of a deal. Music and YouTube are the two pieces of media I consume most, so it makes sense for me.

Same reasons here. Also, if you regularly watch Youtube on smart TVs/streaming boxes, etc. it's just the most hassle free way to not get ads there.

yes, but this increase is a bit rough.

Also the fact that they were sneaky about it. But this is just how YouTube does things. They know being loud is the best way to get hate, just like what happened to Netflix. They have pushed longer ads in sneaky ways over the years. Now they are evaluating blocking ad-blockers, also in sneaky ways, they are never loud about it.

Consider this: It's a shit business model.

A lot of things should have been wiped out a long time ago via survival of the fittest.

SO your saying that subscriptions are shit or advertising and you being the product is shit?

Both

Don't agree with that. Subscriptions work. Nothing's free

I kinda wanted to for awhile because I'd much prefer to have a service like that be paid instead of driven by ads, but it's getting harder to do that with how they're operating.

I don't pay specifically for YouTube with no ads, that's just a nice bonus, the primary reason is YouTube Music which is amazing.

yeah, ad-free youtube, downloads, and background playback is only a couple dollars more than spotify. it's one of the easiest subscriptions for me to justify.

i mean i would get it if the platform wasn't trying to take advantage of you, but considering youtube's moves in the past few years and especially recently with some people getting adblock-blocked, yea i don't think supporting them further is a good idea

I pay!

I was paying $90 a month for cable TV. Something that I hardly watched. When I did watch it, half the time I was watching OTA channel that I could just pick up with rabbit ears.

I was spending more time watching YouTube (everything from car crash videos, to videos of people doing lawn care, to reviews of tech stuff), and I was getting fed up with the ads.

So, I stopped paying the $90 for TV, bought a new HDHomeRun with a new antenna, downloaded the Pluto TV app, and subscribed to YouTube Premium.

Now I get my OTA shows, get some of the stuff I liked with cable (The 24/7 Tosh.0 channel on Pluto TV is pure delight), and I can binge all the dumb shows I want on YouTube without a single ad getting in my way.

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