Your YouTube Premium subscription is about to get more expensive
  • limerod@reddthat.comM
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    2 months ago

    TL;DR

    • YouTube is increasing subscription prices outside the US, affecting both individual and family plans.

    • The price hike differs per region, with some seeing changes between 30% to 50%.

    • If you're impacted, it makes YouTube Premium more expensive than Spotify Premium and Apple Music.

  • zante@lemmy.wtf
    ·
    2 months ago

    Piracy needs to (and probably will)intervene.

    Not until the large channels lose views because people are torrenting the content will anything change.

  • ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    It's still the highest value streaming service out there and worth even more than that. Atleast for me it is. I still wont pay for as long as adblocker works but when they inevitably prevent me from using it, I'll subscribe. I have zero moral arguments for why I should be getting this all for free. YouTube essentially is the internet for me.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]
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      2 months ago

      So much content on YouTube are just commercials. Makeup tutorial? Infomercial for makeup. Game streaming? Commercial to buy said game. Painting lessons? You guessed it: commercials for art supplies and specific brands. Very, very little content isn't sponsored and is the creator just shitposting.

      Now, I happen to like some of these commercials that are also tutorials, product reviews, etc. but I sure as shit am not paying YouTube for the privilege.