• limerod ( limerod@reddthat.com ) OPEnglish
    50·
    2 years ago

    TL;DR

    • YouTube is increasing subscription prices outside the US, affecting both individual and family plans.

    • The price hike differs per region, with some seeing changes between 30% to 50%.

    • If you’re impacted, it makes YouTube Premium more expensive than Spotify Premium and Apple Music.

  • Salvo ( Salvo@aussie.zone ) English
    42·
    2 years ago

    This is ridiculous.

    • their algorithms are crap and keep ramming right-wing bullshit down my throat
    • they keep trying to get me to play YouTube games
    • they list YouTube Shorts multiple times in the Home Screen and most of the time it is just over-sexualised jailbait.
    • using anonymous Google to find a video on YouTube is more effective than using YouTube search

    I am seriously thinking of getting an Apple Vision Pro just so I can use Juno and bypass all the bullshit.

    Time I planned an exit strategy.

    • WolvenSpectre ( WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca ) English
      6·
      2 years ago

      I don’t get allot of that, possibly because I have History turned off and refuse to turn it back on.

      • I vastly avoid Right Wing content, and most of what I do encounter is like old school Republican, reeeally old school Republican. They are as pissed at the Right Wing’s take over by the Alt-Right(and worse)
      • YouTube has games?!?
      • The shorts content I get is mostly computer content and news, some branding because I have entered contests, and that is it. I have seen 1 short that was even approaching jailbaity and it was an add for a coming of age movie.
      • It has been literally over a year since I used Google to find a video (well except for a tech support video I keep loosing the link to that I use to help people with installing Windows 11 Locally) and I have been using Startpage which anonymizes Google results.

      If you disabling your Ad ID and turning off your history and you still get all that BS I would be looking for an Exit Strategy to.

      • Salvo ( Salvo@aussie.zone ) English
        2·
        2 years ago

        I usually get bombarded with Right-Wing content after I watch Juice Media videos. Also, if a watch a feminist video, it is usually followed by recommendations of “AnTi-WoKe” mansplaining videos. it is if they want to show “Both Sides” after I watch something about maintaining democracy and contributing to society in a positive way.

        The YouTube Games are just another banner of unwanted “content” like Shorts.

        The T&A shorts are usually of young women in jeggings and crop-tops doing risqué actions; if your mouse passes over the Shorts for a millisecond , YouTube autoplays them and registers as a view, creating a negative feedback loop of more and more scantily clad young women doing mundane things in a risqué way.

        • WolvenSpectre ( WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca ) English
          1·
          2 years ago

          I don’t know… maybe it is because I am consuming most of my YT content on desktop and that carries over to my android experience. As a matter of fact I don’t consume shorts on Android and that may be the difference. My feed on desktop is all computer stuff, CBC stuff, occasional Marvel stuff, and ASMR stuff, and half of that I don’t watch.

          I really feel sorry for you if that is what your Android Experience is. I would suggest GrayJay or New Pipe to get out of the Algorithm then. I could remember back about 5 years ago when I started getting full episodes as an ad, of absolute religious trash, and I am talking when I reported them the channel was banned in a single report trash, at a time when I, due to illness, that I would listen to while soaking in the tub with a lift to get my sick ass in an out, and they would put 45 minute shows as ads. I would get so angry but its a long ad, so it wasn’t worth me getting out of the bath to skip it, and 15 minutes later of “Kill the HOMO-Sexuals” and “that current bad thing happened because we voted in those godless communists and socialists… why we should just hang them and save the country! A-MEN!!!” and I was using up power on my bath lift to get my sopping wet butt up and report their ass. After the 5th report I temporarily moved to New Pipe and stuck to desktop where I got full episodes as ads but not THOSE episodes.

          YouTube can really fuck themselves over when they sell contra-ads on leftist, or any media, and now they are reaping the whirlwind with the ad platform and the search platform in the middle of Antitrust right now.

    • sunzu2 ( sunzu2@thebrainbin.org ) Banned
      5·
      2 years ago

      they list YouTube Shorts multiple times in the Home Screen and most of the time it is just over-sexualised jailbait.

      Commenters are quick to jump tondunk on you but they don’t realize that youtune runs “studies” or just pump shit up if creator pays. Behavior here is indicative of a larger social issue with bootlickers.

    • mormund ( mormund@feddit.org ) English
      10·
      2 years ago

      To me that is the problem and why I’ll probably cancel with this price hike. I don’t want more. I got YT Premium for YouTube, mostly to support creators, cause fuck watching Ads. But I have to pay for Music, Podcasts and whatever other garbage they try to stuff in there. It was the same with Prime. I don’t want to watch your stupid series, I just want free shipping, twitch prime and occasionally an old movie.

      Sorry for the rant but these stupid subscription “bundles” are so annoying. The whole ecosystem is becoming shittier every year.

      • Salvo ( Salvo@aussie.zone ) English
        1·
        2 years ago

        They are all doing these offensive bundles of crap. It is worse than the days of Cable.

        We are subscribed to Apple One Family Premier. I need the large data for my family to backup their devices, but none of us want Fitness+ or News+. It is cheaper to get this extra crap we don’t want, than to just get Data.

        I just need a way to disable Fitness+ without disabling the Workout features. This is the same as disabling Shorts, Music and Games in YouTube.

  • zante ( zante@lemmy.wtf ) English
    6·
    2 years ago

    Piracy needs to (and probably will)intervene.

    Not until the large channels lose views because people are torrenting the content will anything change.

  • ContrarianTrail ( ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee ) English
    4·
    2 years ago

    It’s still the highest value streaming service out there and worth even more than that. Atleast for me it is. I still wont pay for as long as adblocker works but when they inevitably prevent me from using it, I’ll subscribe. I have zero moral arguments for why I should be getting this all for free. YouTube essentially is the internet for me.