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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.
TL;DR
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YouTube is increasing subscription prices outside the US, affecting both individual and family plans.
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The price hike differs per region, with some seeing changes between 30% to 50%.
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If you’re impacted, it makes YouTube Premium more expensive than Spotify Premium and Apple Music.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
The recommendations are not the best but good enough. I usually get movie clips, repair clips, some animal clips and some tech ones.
Piracy needs to (and probably will)intervene.
Not until the large channels lose views because people are torrenting the content will anything change.
I don’t think there is such a thing as YouTube doesn’t use any DRM. All videos are publicly available on a public facing service available to all
the EULA for YouTube says they own all videos uploaded to their site. watching through something like Piped is a soft (and important) form of piracy
You aren’t agreeing the the EULA
But the person operating the piped server is
How so?
It is just a web crawler. It isn’t do much more than your standard search engine
I don’t get the comparison between YouTube Premium and Spotify Premium. YouTube does much more than Spotify so of course it’ll be more expensive.
Those are steep price jumps, though. Google must have pretty high confidence in their adblock blocking tech.
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.
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.
I had heard before that YouTube premium subscriptions don’t support creators, but a quick internet search says it does.
Yeah. I’ve heard a few creators say they get much more money from a Premium user.
The more you tighten your grip, Google, the more users will slip through your fingers.
They are shooting themselves in the foot
Just make a usable website that isn’t so terribly designed
They’ve figured out that it’s impossible to have children today without paying for Youtube Premium Family …
I find it funny that the “play” icon in the articles thumbnail picture (up-left corner of the red trapezoid) looks quite similar to newpipe’s logo.
Ha