I remember when they promised that anyone who paid for YouTube Red would be allowed to pay for YouTube Premium for the same price until the sun explodes.
And then they scrapped it.
It wasn’t a surprise. But I was disappointed.
“For the first time in three years” is a weird way to phrase regular price increases.
It’s even worse than that. They increase the price right after they increase the ad length. As in “well, now that ads are longer, this subscription has more value. Therefore we should increase the price”.
Why do people give their money to google? Just use adblock
Unsubscribing and installing UBlock Origin is perfectly thinkable. It also gets which side is the “dark side” wrong.
ad block just pauses while ads play unseen. better than paying for skips >.> amazon
Do yall even adblocker? I’ve not seen a yt ad in years.
I do! One of my friends added me to his plan last year to watch football, and the only benefit I can see is the higher bitrates offered. The plain 1080p option without a plan looks like ass.
Not defending the cost of youtube premium (I don’t even buy it, myself). It’s just a little extra thing I’ve noticed after the use of ublock.
However, I think I have seen a Firefox extension to help with bitrates, recently…
Many people use it on TVs or phones and tablets, not computers. Which makes ad blocking harder or impossible.
Android tv has an app called smart tube next which blocks ads on yt. No idea about iOS though. Though not entirely convenient, you could use Orion browser with ublock origin installed
Firetv it works. But can’t get it on Roku. But again, most people have no clue about that.
year of the Linux TVs or phones and tablets? also those ARE computers
Yes everything is a computer. However not everything can be run installed configured or used as a computer. Some of them are very limited devices.
yes, ublock
but i watch youtube through invidious anyway
I’d gladly pay them about $10 a month for a family plan.
At that point, maintaining AdBlocker updates on half a dozen different platforms would be more pain than the money.
But let’s be honest, they’re not putting out Netflix and Disney quality content, it’s just 5-9’s of slop with an occasional diamond of a creator.
at $27 a month, and a trajectory over time to be more expensive than cable, they can fuck right off.
For me the unthinkable is giving my hard earned money to a multi billion dollar corporation
Dramatic much? Canceling a subscription is ‘the unthinkable’ now? For fuck’s sake.
Haha yeah. It’s unthinkable that YouTube doesn’t make ANOTHER billion dollars.
forcing many users to consider the unthinkable “Do I really need 300 subscriptions?”
Loool, I think about cancelling stuff all the time.
Hell I think I’ll go cancel something right now.
THE UNTHINKABLE! Not paying for trumping trumpy service or goods. We should pay for things no matter how bad they are of course.
Okay, but they are not just paying more for the same service. YouTube Premium is worth more now because it allows you to avoid 90 second unstoppable ads. So don’t say Google doesn’t do anything for its
consumerscustomers!I havent seen an ad on YT in like 2 years and i havent had premium in 3 years
Tell us your secret, sourcerer
Depends on where you’re watching YouTube, but there’s options for most devices. On PC you can use an ad blocker such as uBlock Origin, or a browser with a built in ad blocker like Brave. If you use a phone you can use the mobile browser version (not perfect but pretty serviceable) with a browser that blocks ads. There’s app options for Android such as Greyjay, and modded YouTube apps such as Revanced and Morphe. There’s an app called SmartTube Next that works on most smart TVs. If you have a VPN, setting it to Albania will cause ads to not be displayed on most services even if you’re using the official app and works on every device I’ve tried it on. There’s probably more ways but those are what I’m aware off the top of my head. There is no reason that in 2026 anyone should be seeing ads on YouTube.
Why is everything being done “quietly” lately?
Because its a covering instead of saying underhanded or sneaky or tricking users.
“I didn’t steal, I was just quietly sneaking money from their wallet!”
Announcing price hikes is bad marketing
I’m speaking more of the reporting. It seems like every headline claims something is being done “quietly” now when it was actually announced loud and clear. Take this price hike, for example. I got an email from Google last week telling me the price went up. That wasn’t “quietly”. “Quietly” would be raising the price completely unannounced and hoping no one notices.
The answer is simple: the site that published the article is complete garbage
FoRcInG uSeRs To CoNsIdEr ThE uNtHiNkAbLe
Fuck off bootlickers
And the unthinkable is as blockers. Wow
Lol, piracy, the logical solution.
There isn’t a single device in my home that shows YouTube ads.
I’ll jump through any hoop before I give that shit website money.
Aah, shit website but you still watch it… oh, the irony
Yet you participate in society. Curious.
I don’t think that soviety is shit. I think we have done wonderful things in society. And we keep making it better. Every society has its problems, but there is a way to make them better.
Without society there wouldn’t be literature, medicine, knowlidge, science, etc.
Yes, there are bad things also, but as I said, we can and must make them better. And if you watch in the long run through history there is no better time to be living than now.
Yup.
I think capitalism is shit but I’m still forced to participate in it. Until there is something better to use I’m stuck with YouTube.
Nobody is forcing you to consume content on the internet, this is a laughable defense. You aren’t forced by society or capitalism to watch YouTube.
You’re absolutely right.
However, if I can consume said content without giving money to companies who are going over and above to be anti-consumer? I’ll 100% take advantage of that.
If YouTube wants to go out of their way to make it harder for me to watch legally, I’ll go out of my way to watch illegally. You think I pay for 17 different streaming services for TV shows me or my partner want to watch? Fuck all that we pay for IPTV.
Pirates like me don’t want to have to jump hoops to watch your shit. But all these streaming platforms, Youtube, Twitch, the greed has become so hard to ignore that it’s impossible to rationalize paying them to fuck you anyway. Pay $18 a month for this service to watch this show, but this other show is on another service for another $16 a month. Fuck all that I’ll just open up whichever pirating site I have saved and download the fucking show in a half hour and toss it on my external HDD and watch it anyway.
I have no respect for companies that don’t respect their consumers.
I can respect the honesty that you just want shit for free at least lol
I can’t stand people that try to pretend that they’re taking a moral stand when they just don’t want to pay people for the work they consume.
There’s Peertube, Vimeo, and others
Okay. Let me know when the dozens of content creators I follow on YouTube migrate there.
“Content creators” lol. I mean, I guess there could be, but YT stopped being decent about 10 years ago, maybe longer. I haven’t used it but for an occasional video. Surprisingly, I haven’t missed it. There’s not much on YouTube I couldn’t get elsewhere, with less ads, and to the point vs a 10 minute video intro plus sponsor plugs, etc.
Lmao
And when they try to force online ID bullshit I’ll permanently walk away. We don’t deserve the WWW if its just full of scammers. I’d rather rewatch my favorite anime for the millionth time.
Arrrrr
