International YouTube Premium price increase starts in 7 countries
International YouTube Premium price increase starts in 7 countries
Following the United States in July, YouTube Premium's international price increase is starting. It was only a matter of time...
Following the United States in July, YouTube Premium’s international price increase is starting. The Google video is rolling this out slowly across Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America.
As of November 1, YouTube Premium is seeing an international price increase in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Chile, Germany, Poland, and Turkey. This applies to individual, family, and student plans for YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium.
In Australia, YouTube Premium Individual is now A$16.99 and is said to be the “first ever price increase for your subscription” (for the country). For those currently paying a lower rate, YouTube is continuing that pricing for “at least three extra months.”
Existing subscribers will start to see the new pricing with their next billing cycle. In announcing via email this morning, YouTube says it doesn’t “make these decisions lightly” and says the price increase will allow it to “continue to improve Premium and support the creators and artists you watch on YouTube.”
There we go, this is why they are fighting adblockers.
Gotta love how these companies always try to make the price increases sound reasonable - nay, laudable.
"Giving us, a major corporation, more money will TOTALLY benefit the common folk who supply us with all of our product."
For all those that don't like the taste of Googles boot, FreeTube has been nice and has the added benefit of Google knowing even less about you. For all those that want to contribute to their favorite creators, that's why things like Patreon exist. For the rest, enjoy your meal!
If you use YouTube on Android, there's NewPipe, PipePipe, LibreTube and Clipious. Unfortunately they're all a bit hit-or-miss, though.
If you have an Android TV, there's SmartTube. Its built-in updater is a little iffy, but otherwise it works amazingly.
lol imagine paying for youtube
If it wasn't ridiculously expensive I might.
If it wasn’t run by Google I might
Given the sheer amount of YouTube I watch and my awareness that things do actually have costs, I really don't mind it, though I do wish it were a bit cheaper.
They aren’t starving my man.
It’s more than worth it for me. YouTube is my main source of video and audio content.
Yeah some of the money goes to Google, but any major paid commercial streaming service is going to give money to a giant corporation.
Imagine expecting extremely expensive infrastructure used to serve you videos to be completely free
YT was always operated at a loss, no amount of premium memberships were ever going to pay for it. The business model, and the main reason why Google bought it, was always to profile and broker personal data. That has always been the deal and has always been profitable for them. I don’t see why I should give them money on top of that.
In my head canon Google died the day they removed the don’t be evil and became Gargle.
Fuck Gargle!
"How do I dispose of this lard?" "I have no idea, just Gargle it"