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Sahwa@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 16 hours ago

‘I want to cancel’: YouTube Premium quietly hikes its US prices for the first time in three years, forcing many users to consider the unthinkable

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‘I want to cancel’: YouTube Premium quietly hikes its US prices for the first time in three years, forcing many users to consider the unthinkable

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‘I’m going to ad blockers’: Some YouTube Premium subscribers say they’re moving to the dark side after ‘greedy’ price hikes across all plans
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  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    tell me about it; I’m paying double for revanced now

  • lil_era76@lemmy.world
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    So glad PipePipe and FreeTube are a thing

    For now…

    • tomjuggler@lemmy.world
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      I would like to add an honourable mention to your list here: Kodi YouTube add-on. Somehow this is working for me again after being broken for ages. It’s not the same (you need to use a Google account and API set-up) but no ads, auto play, recommend videos…

      • winkerjadams@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        http://grayjay.app/ no Google accounts, no bullshit

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    FoRcInG uSeRs To CoNsIdEr ThE uNtHiNkAbLe

    Fuck off bootlickers

    • qevlarr@lemmy.world
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      Arrrrr

    • unitedwithme@lemmy.today
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      Lol, piracy, the logical solution.

  • durindana@lemmy.zip
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    The unthinkable? lmao

  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
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    If I’m paying, it will be to nebula. YouTube is toxic.

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    Honestly I would probably pay for it and be happy but Premium doesn’t solve many of the problems that still exist:

    • being shown the same content over and over
    • Dislikes hidden
    • in-video ads
    • Shorts absolutely crammed down your throat everywhere
    • broken search results
    • AI-generated slop absolutely everywhere
    • crypto spam
    • Google-connected account using view history to spy on you

    etc. etc. All problems Google could solve easily but simply won’t.

    • qevlarr@lemmy.world
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      Get Revanced and you can also block shorts from the UI completely, on top of no ads

      • artyom@piefed.social
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        Yes, that was my entire point.

    • Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org
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      They finally lost me completely when I loaded a music video marked “adult” for language and it demanded I upload ID on an account that was legally an adult.

      I made that account in 1999, it’s not even from this millennium, and they still derp out on it. I’m getting close to 50, at this point, and the only thing ads, age verification, and extreme right wing content on top of state sponsored disinformation campaigns will get you is a blacklist.

      We should have seen it coming, I mean they used to have the “Don’t be evil” motto, removing that was a declaration of intent.

      • unitedwithme@lemmy.today
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        Considering YT didn’t even start until 2005, I call BS 😁. Not to mention I don’t think they would’ve had accounts from the get go unless you wanted to upload videos.

        • ComradeSharkfucker@lemmy.ml
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          They probably mean their google account

          • unitedwithme@lemmy.today
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            Gmail didn’t exist until 2004 or so. Google back then was a search engine in 1998 so there’d be no need for an "account"in the sense it’s used today. I mean, they’re probably not wrong claiming they have a Google account old enough to be legal since it’d only need to be from 2008 to be 18, and there was Gmail, YouTube, and Android (later on) by then.

      • RisingSwell@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        I pay for YouTube and they wouldn’t accept the card I pay them with for validation.

        So I took a photo of someone in a YouTube video and they accepted it as me and hey now I’m verified.

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      You can get rid of the actually relevant issues with premium and giving negative reactions to unwanted content. I barely get shown AI stuff.

      • artyom@piefed.social
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        You can’t though. That was my entire point.

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          Well, I can.

    • fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world
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      Morphe fixes most of that.

      • artyom@piefed.social
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        Well that’s exactly my point.

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    Lmao, you want to have a good laugh, read through the reddit comments on this. Full of corpo bootlickers talking about how poor Google needs to make money, why won’t you think of the corpos??

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      Probably bots trying to trick people into thinking it’s absurd and bad and all that.

      • DisgruntledGorillaGang@reddthat.com
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        I must be stupid, because I can never tell.

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      There is an assumption these people are making that I am not sure they are aware they are making. They are assuming the cost of running YouTube is increasing so the cost of YouTube premium needs to increase. Every public company is driven by maximizing share holder value, the goal is to extract as much money as possible from the user.

  • SpookyBogMonster@lemmy.ml
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    forcing many users to consider the unthinkable

    … Death???

    • fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world
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      Woah… Morbid much?

      The answer is obvious. Going outside.

    • dwemthy@lemmy.world
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      Prostitution

  • fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world
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    Morphe to the rescue.

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    The ‘unthinkable’ of installing an adblocker or using a frontend?

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    forcing many users to consider the unthinkable

    Use a firefox clone and ublock?

    (and linux, btw)

    • Hakuso@scribe.disroot.org
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      I scrape from the command line, Google doesn’t even tough a web browser, leech the webm/webp/whatever content and transcode it into mkv/mp3 to watch locally, offline, with no ads or tracking.

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    I always wanted to get back into books. It’s actually really helpful that they’re doing this. I’m still pretty bad at self control.

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    YouTube revanced 👌👌

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      You might want to check out Morphe.

      I think the days of Revanced are numbered…

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    “the unthinkable”

    Hyperbole much?

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      Unthinkable is signing up in the first place

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        and assuming you can escape ADs, they will include ads and raise prices immediately, and people were touting how its better.

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        They though the titanic unthinkable until they hit an itheburg.

        • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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          Incontheivable!

        • itsmistermoon@piefed.social
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          thanks Mike Tyson

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            *Mike Tython

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      Was about to say the same. Unthinkable, I never even thought of subscribing in the first place!

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      Inconceivable!

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      deleted by creator

      • Bone@lemmy.world
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        Didn’t come to mind.

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      They’re ’Muricans. You gotta give them some slack. Thinking doesn’t come naturally to them.

      • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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        Sorry to interrupt the circlejerk, but the author is a Brit

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          I’ve made up my mind. Don’t confuse me with facts!

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    What is the point of premium except for not having ads anyway?

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      If you watch for hours a day no ads is a big thing. Otherwise you get at least one ad per video if not more. Plus you get yt music with premium. Plus you can skip ahead over sponsor stuff in videos too.

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        All of these things are achievable without paying YouTube.

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        This is not worth paying so much money as they are, asking for.

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      Being able to download both videos and music is a big one, it saves me a lot of mobile data.

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        I use 3d party indie apps for it. For free or for much cheaper.

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