•  ContrarianTrail   ( @ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee ) English
    3•9 hours 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.

  •  limerod   ( @limerod@reddthat.com ) OPEnglish
    40•17 hours 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
    31•16 hours 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.

    •  sunzu2   ( @sunzu2@thebrainbin.org ) 
      4•11 hours 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.

    •  WolvenSpectre   ( @WolvenSpectre@lemmy.ca ) English
      5•15 hours 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.

  •  zante   ( @zante@lemmy.wtf ) English
    6•14 hours ago

    Piracy needs to (and probably will)intervene.

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

    •  mormund   ( @mormund@feddit.org ) English
      8•14 hours 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.