YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.::Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.
The way Google is starting to abuse its position of power to crackdown on its users, its really comes to show the cracks in its armour.
It’s the beginning of the end for Google.
Long live open source software!
What abuse?
How’s that relevant to the topic exactly?
This article.
There’s no abuse. The service is historically provided with ads. You blocking ads is technically illegal, as you’re breaking ToS. The only abuse is people complaining here.
I was honestly thinking about buying premium, so I would support the creators. Welp, that’s out of the window.
mine went from 17 AUD to 33 AUD.
what a bunch of greedy assholes.
I was paying for it for years. But now I’ll go out of my way to not pay for it. No doubt a lot of people will too.
TF? (aka fuck’em) That seems like the USD price is probably going to rise too then. USD 9.99 right now for me and that’s AUD 15.41.
AUD 33 would be more than doubling it for me, just like Disney more than doubled my barely used subscription (I instantly cancelled that).
One Piece is going to have real live action now methinks.
Still haven’t gotten any on Firefox with Ublock Origin. The usual explanation is that it rolls out in stages, but I’ve nothing weeks later.
Nah there was an article that said that it’s fully deployed now.
Your ad block solution must be filtering it out appropriately.
I’ve had to do the full purge and refresh filters thing.
I just have all my YouTube subscriptions feeding into an RSS feed. Haven’t gotten a single ad.
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The worst part of it is that they are still driving up the cost by bundling YouTube music.
They know nobody else will use it if they don’t
Just wait, it’s google. They’ll sunset google music and not bring the price down
Honestly I think Google has a horrible management culture. It worked fine when they were printing money regardless but at this point the incompetence is starting to show.
I will be stone cold dead before I pay a single dollar/euro to Google for THEM to harvest MY DATA to resell.
uBlock beat the filters almost immediately. Annoyingly for google once you’ve downloaded something its out of their hands.
How? I keep having to clear cookies. Now use Firefox. With logged in window I find the video I want and I open it in private window with ublock origin enabled. No warning in private logged out window.
‘rightfully’ is doing a lot of lifting here.
If some day I cannot block ads on YouTube I’ll go to Patreon or any other platform that gives creators a real share of what I’m paying. Google will not see my money.
Has YouTube even done anything to improve the platform in the last 8 year? The only thing that I’ve seen change is the search turning to trash with “recommended content” after 4 real search results.
They removed the dislike button. That improved the platform right?
Probably a lot on the backend. Honestly fewer changes on the front is probably for the better at this point.
Only issue would be getting the creators to move. That nay be more difficult than said with some. I already follow some on rumble, I only stay on YouTube as others haven’t.
Otherwise I agree
I was under the impression that YT Premium paid creators the same per view as YT with ads. Is this not the case?
I believe Louis Rossmann said that giving a single dollar directly to a creator is more than a lifetime of watching their ads. Premium I think is really good comparatively but that’s only because ads pay so little.
(https://youtu.be/4Q3ZXQZZlcE?t=55 is where he says this according to his cpm)
I don’t believe so. As I understand it, all Premium money goes into a big bucket. Then, views/watchtime/etc. are used to calculate what percentage of the pie a given creator will receive.
Yeah, so if you watch one creator a lot then they get a lot more
Some creators have said that the cut they get from premium viewers is higher than that of ad based (SpiffingBrit for example, in his YouTube download exploit video).
If that still holds true is unknown.
Linus (LTT) also said that one premium view was worth significantly more than ad based.
I will do everything within my power to take from them as much and give back as little as I can.
*you pay YouTube for the content they didn’t make or they turn the thumbscrews.
This is misleading : a substantial part is distributed to the content creators. Traditionally the YouTube cut is alleged to be rather low.
Because it costs nothing to run data centers, employ thousands of people, distribute exabytes of data.
A few months ago I was thinking about getting YouTube premium. It’s a platform I’m on everyday and have been using it for years. But they decided to block adblockers and increase prices, so they can go fuck themselves.
I’m on the go fuck yourselves side even though I use YT everyday quite a lot.
Us Aussies got it hard, price went up from 18 to 33. I’m strongly considering this to be my last month.
See you in the other side ⚰️🙏😔
This is why Google has been using their browser monopoly to push their “Web Integrity API”. If that gets adopted, they can fully control the client side and prevent all ad blocking.
They’ve been also serving ads for YouTube premium as well recently
My guess it that it’s to rope in people who don’t use adblock
why is everything being enshittified this year? :(
Tech bubble is deflating, high interest rates are probably also a culprit
You mean POP!?
I feel like a pop would be more extreme?
