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Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month

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The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing $2 to $13.99 per month in the US. YouTube has yet to...

Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month

This is just a reminder, if you think some subscription from a gigacorp is a good deal. It even might be, for a while. Then the price will go up and up once people get used to the idea.

It's one of the problems of subscription services in general.

Yes, I know. Raising prices is and has always been a normal part of life. The thing is, the more services are subscription-based, the more these price hikes can be bothersome.

If the cost of toilet paper goes up more than you find comfortable, you can at least to try to budget it better and use less of it. Maybe you can stockpile it or borrow some. If it were a subscription toilet paper, you either have it or don't have it. Or maybe you'll get paper that prints ads onto your...

I'm getting silly. You get my point. Subscriptions can make sense, but also be a major trap.

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  • Looking forward to all the comments explaining how YouTube is different from toilet paper. Thanks in advance for the lessons!

  • I haven't gotten any notifications about this and when I go into my account it still says my next payment is the same. Edit: God dammit just got it

  • I try and convince my friends all the time that yt premium is not worth the money and a scam. They dont listen its "just too convenient". Like using an adblock or 3rd party apps is difficult?

    • If someone can point me towards a tutorial on blocking YT ads on both Roku & Android TV I'll cancel my Premium subscription as soon as I see it working.

      • zoot's suggestion is probably the simplest, but if you're feeling adventurous you could get a raspberry pi and setup a pi-hole server to intercept your internet traffic and redirect ad requests to a null domain

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