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Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January (9to5google.com)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (4 children)

That's the family plan. The individual price is $13.99. Absolutely worth it to me. 10/10, would shill again. I watch almost exclusively on Apple TV, so unless I had a DNS ad blocker, I would see ads. And even those will eventually be detected and blocked, I'm sure. This is how much I've consumed since signing up in August:

I love supporting the creators of the excellent science and math content I subscribe to. Plus I watch a ton of stupid Tim & Eric sketches, SNL sketches, kitten videos and such. I couldn't imagine seeing an ad for every 1:00 video!

Presented with a choice of paying or seeing ads, imma pay. The price is less than one movie ticket a month.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

I’ll upvote you back up.

I’m the same way. I use YT on my AppleTV, and I’m an adult with money so $14 isn’t that bad. That’s basically one double quarter pounder meal these days.

Do I want to see the price increase? Of course not. But I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Thankfully, It's only increasing for people currently paying just $10. They will now be paying the same $14 as us.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I had the grandfathered in YouTube Red plan from years ago, but I was paying just via the App Store so there was the Apple tax. The price there was going up to $18/m, so I canceled and will renew in about a week (when my normal payment is due) directly from YouTube. I honestly haven’t really thought about the price in a while so I don’t realize it was already $12/m that way (I think), and going this new route the price change is just $1 more for me.

But I think it’s worth the no hassle with no ads on every device. I go to friends’ houses and they put on YouTube with ads, and I don’t know how they live like animals like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Even DNS blocking wouldn't work. DNS blocking only works if they serve ads via a different name server than they serve their content from (like content from videos.youtube.com and ads from ads.youtube.com). If they give you both ads and youtube content from the same domain, then your DNS blocker can't selective block the ads. So DNS blocking doesn't work on YouTube, and plenty of other streaming ad-containing streaming service.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

I'll pay YouTube when they stop ducking over content creators with DMCA laziness and terrible royalties for music streams. A service that's worth it is one thing, but that service essentially exploiting it's employees who have no other viable alternative is bad. I'd rather pay my content creators directly through merch, Patreon, etc...