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…

  • benwubbleyou@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I know I am gonna be one of the few, but I use YouTube as my main viewing of things. I don’t use Netflix, or any of the other services much. Premium is something I can’t be without anymore tbh, the ad free and downloading is super convenient for me and I like how a lot of my premium subscription goes to the creators I watch the most.

    • ndguardian@lemmy.studio
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      1 year ago

      That’s where I’m at. I use it regularly for learning new things and for entertainment, so I don’t mind paying for it, and getting rid of ads while supporting creators is perfectly fine with me.

    • TopRamenBinLaden@sh.itjust.works
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      1 year ago

      You can get ad free Youtube with Firefox plus ublock origin for free. There are also countless YouTube Downloader programs out there. You don’t need to pay for it at all to get the features that YouTube premium offers.

      Paying to support content creators is the only reason to consider YouTube premium unless you are very tech illiterate, I guess.

    • spicycape@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Yup happy to pay what I pay for youtube premium and youtube music, totally worth it for both!

      Maybe I could find it expensive if it was only one service

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      1 year ago

      I don’t have a problem with them charging for the service. But they keep raising it dramatically over and over. You’re paying $15 a month to watch content a YouTube creator is getting 25 cents to create. If they wanted to charge $9.99 a month for a family plan I’d be all about it. At the prices they’re charging there are services running full blown movie houses