• tilgare@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Also in defense of Google - I’m still grandfathered in to the $8 plan for YouTube premium because I signed up and have remained subscribed since 2013 when they offered promotional pricing at the beginning of Google Play Music. Years later, they added YouTube Red (now Premium) to the subscription which REALLY sweetened the pot. But they’ve never bumped my subscription price up.

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        1 year ago

        Not for long. I’ve been getting the “You’re using an ad blocker” banner for the couple of days. I’m not losing my Gmail account over it.

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          1 year ago

          Sounds like the very thing to motivate you to ditch your gmail account, don’t let them hold you hostage!

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      1 year ago

      Ah yes, let’s defend Google for not raising the price of features that were free to begin with like listening with screen off and background listening? Not really sure how much lower the bar can get here

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      1 year ago

      I signed up for the original family plan, and they raised my prices multiple times.

      They also killed off YouTube premium light.

      I think you’re only paying the original price cause of a glitch.

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      1 year ago

      Same here. At $8 it’s an amazing value. I plan on keeping it until they kill off parts of it or raise the price.

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          1 year ago

          IDK why people are downvoting. I could see it being decent for YT Music but for YT Premium you’re literally paying for features free software can do for free. So it’s not really a good deal by any metric.

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            1 year ago

            I don’t think this is a good POV. The biggest reason I prefer to pay for YT Premium is so creators still get revenue from me watching their videos

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              1 year ago

              Except if you want to support creators and ensure they get all the money there’s far better ways that aren’t paying for adblocking lmao.

              YouTube makes more money than ever, they are being greedy AF.

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                1 year ago

                Alright, can you elaborate on these ways? You could support a particular creator via Patreon, or by buying their merch, sure. What if somebody you’ve never watched before releases a very good video that you stumble upon and watch? What if you don’t have the financial resources to be a part of dozens of separate patreons?

                As far as I’m concerned, YT Premium is the best way for me to support all of the creators behind the videos I watch. For me, I also like YT Music so this ends up being a pretty good deal overall

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                  1 year ago

                  You can easily buy memberships for channels, which gives more money than premium. In fact, most memberships for channels I frequent are $0.99 a month, so you can definitely afford to support 10-15 of them for the same price as premium.

                  That’s great that it’s a good deal for you, but it doesn’t change the fact that google took features that were free to use and locked them behind a paywall. So by default it’s a bad deal on that front alone.

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                    I don’t think that’s what a bad deal is. I make decisions based on what is a good deal for me and things I care about.

                    With YT Premium for $10/mo I get:

                    • support unlimited amount of creators based on watch time
                    • no ads
                    • YT Music (which is pretty good imo)
                    • Support infrastructure behind service

                    Without YT Premium for $10/mo I get:

                    • support 10 creators directly
                    • ads (or constantly fight battle to block them)

                    Now, I fully agree that removing features that were previously paid is a dick move, but those aren’t why I have YT Premium anyways. I just don’t think it is an objectively “bad” deal