So this is some bollocks. Guess I’ll be cancelling our plan since it’s only used by two of us.
Current price $17.99/month, new price $32.99/month.
If they boiled the frog better I would probably have accepted a $5/month price rise, and then another later… But close to doubling in one go is a no from me dawg.
Thank you for being a loyal member throughout our journey. We created YouTube Premium so that you could enjoy all the videos and music you love without interruptions.
To continue delivering great service and features, we are increasing the YouTube Premium family plan price to A$32.99/month. We don’t make these decisions lightly, and this update will allow us to continue to improve YouTube Premium and support the creators and artists you watch on YouTube. This is the first ever price increase for your subscription.
Links to cancellation etc: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12400348?sjid=6028684095030617608-AP
Got the same bullshit email, total dick move by Google and I’ll be cancelling. It’s just pure greed.
I’m be exploring the ad blocking and/or VPN options.
Google need to separate YouTube and Music.
They want You to do everything Google. YouTube is the only thing that differentiates their All-in-One product from the competition. Everyone offers Music so VEVOs no value. Everything else Google offers for no monetary charge.
AppleOne includes music, storage and AppleTV+, as well as Fitness (that nobody uses, but nobody admits to not using).
Amazon Prime includes music, Audiobooks and Freight Discounts.
Xbox Gold offers games.
Netflix, HBO, etc, has no extra value except “original” and exclusive content.
Jesus, how do they justify that price?
They charge more than Netflix yet they don’t even make any of their own content?
It’s because you also get youtube music streaming included with it. If netflix had its own music streaming service bundled in their prices would be even higher than they are now.
Music might really be their main problem. Basically every video has some music in it. If not in the foreground, then in the background. Even game soundtracks in Let’s Plays are often under license. So the moment someone plays any such video, the content mafia comes around the corner with their baseball bats in hand collecting their tolls.
So I assume if they have to pay for music any way, they figured they might as well include a tailored music listening experience with Premium.
No, it was honestly just a replacement for google play music.
My point was: they likely have to pay for licensed music to the content mafia, so they cannot really offer anything without including music in the pricing.
Not apologizing for them: they’re assholes. But I expect they have more traffic. Still not saying they’re right.
I’m always amaze by the fact that all these streaming platform do is give you access to others content ( they dont create shit), but they get to keep 98.7% of the revenue, because.
Because they’re paying for the content?..
Cute.
It’s times like these when I’m glad I refused to even log into Google to view YouTube, let alone buy subscriptions. I also refuse to view downloading content (without logging in) that’s freely available to be viewed as piracy.
These subscriptions are undoubtedly a rip-off. For those saying creators get a “cut”, there’s a reason why sites like Patreon exist. It’s substantially better for creators if you subscribe to them directly that way and get your videos from Patreon. Same with Nebula etc. If I really had to pay then I’d do that (and do already for some stuff that was never on YouTube anyway).
You can get enough subs for the price of a YT premium to get plenty of content to watch, even if you don’t want to subvert Google. So there’s zero reason to throw money at them for this. None at all.
I am not saying I like YouTube, but they are actually one of the best when it comes to paying their creators.
Pretty much every popular creator from other platforms (like tiktok) goes to YouTube once they are big and want to earn money.
And yes of course they earn more on Patreon, but if I recall correctly most YouTubers get most of their money from YouTube, because they have their biggest audience.
De-monitisation is a pretty huge problem for many though.
I’m curious what’s driving this revenue rush at Alphabet. It almost feels like something internal, like they’re trying to make it actually self sufficient based on cloud pricing.
It’s not just Alphabet it’s cloud based companies across the board and basically VC money is drying up because it can be secured on 0% interest loans anymore
Alphabet would be less impacted by interest rates or VC money since they’re a megacorp. I’m curious if for them they are afraid of not being competitive enough if they get trust busted.
It’s happening across a lot of industries, especially tech. During covid line went up very fast. Post-covid line stopped going up fast, but companies are desperate to keep it going up fast. Otherwise it would count as a slowdown in year-on-year growth and we can never ever have that (/s).
Companies then: Let’s make money!
Companies now: Let’s make more money faster! Our graph of profit must concave up!
Companies 100 years from now: Let’s increase the rate at which the rate at which our growth in profit increases increases!
companies want to maximize profits
I’m expecting YT to be spun off/sold within a year or so.
I don’t think it’ll happen willingly. They don’t want it to be a drain on their cloud business and they don’t want it to use AWS either.
People saying I’ll cancel will not cancel. I’ve seen so many corp simps in the last few years that I lost faith in humanity
But it’s on the internet, it must be true!
Enshittification of youtube is definitely progressing very rapidly.
I can’t blame them. The fight to block adblockers is an expensive one, and they went all in on the fight. /s
Asshats.
E: adding the sarcasm mark, in case it wasn’t obvious.
All prices seem to be going up around the board. I just got an email saying my Turkish Family Plan (via VPN) is increasing from TRY ₺59.99 to TRY ₺115.99. That’s $3.29 to $6.36.
I haven’t received the email but I guess I should expect that price hike. Thanks for the info
Personally, I’m a fan of
For those who must have the official paid version, keep an eye on Ozbargain Youtube.
Free trials and/or VPN + subscribe overseas for a fraction of the price, eg Individual has been $2.34 a month via India, A$2.30 via Turkey
(this is before any potential price increases in those countries)
Revanced project, smart YouTubeTV and/or Smart YouTubeNext, ublock origin, and xManager for Spotify.
I have an android phone and an android TV so I see no ads. However I have an iPad which I take away and the ads make me sad.
Is there any way to adblock YouTube on an iPad?
Safari has the hyperweb extension that does a pretty good job for me!
Edit: hyperweb does a bunch of stuff, eliminating youtube ads is only a fraction of this extension
You can install Firefox on iOS, and install ublock origin
Edit: apparently not
- selfhost jellyfin
- automatically download youtube videos based on a txt file with channel urls
- redirect youtube links to invidious for all other use case.
- never directly visit the youtube site ever again, depending on other service you use, no longer need a google account.
- no profit cause i never paid a dime but no regrets either.
What are you using to download videos? Youtube-dl hasn’t updated in a couple years now and didn’t seem to work anymore last I used it.
Not OP, but i use yt-dlp to great success.
I use tube archivist, has both Plex and jellyfin plugins
How do you deal with the increased storage usage of all the videos you download? Do you have some sort of auto delete after it’s watched or after some about of time?
On pc jellyfin allows you to delete the media straight from within the webinterface so il usually delete videos after watching. But because i use the same server like a nass i do have some space for videos i do want to keep.
I am also rather picky on what goes on the list. Theres maybe 15 channels in their now, favorites i really don’t want to miss. I run a personal indivious client next to it with all my second tier and filler subscriptions.
Ah okay, how do you go about setting all this up?
Honestly if you have absolutely no idea then replicating my exact setup might be a bit steep.
Before i made the download script (which i can share if you ping me next week when i am back home) i already had a 24/7 Ubuntu server with docker running multiple containers like a small Minecraft server.
You could replicate much of what i did on windows and a not always online machine but it may take some extra steps to get working.
I also got much help from chatgpt-(4) the last year for all kinds of linux/docker/scripting questions, my total linux experience is less then 3 years.
I recommended to start of trying to host invidious, which on itself could already be a full experience without requiring local storage or scripts.
invidous selfhost installation guide (i use docker-compose)
For any questions regarding docker i continuing to highly recommend chatgpt but remember its quality is entirely dependent on your ability to recognize “makes sense” versus “dangerously derailed bullshit”
If you have this working then getting jellyfin to work in docker will be a breeze. Only step remaining would be using a script like mine to download the videos and save them in the library folder. And as mentioned once i am back home next week i’ll be happy to share it and explain further.
I haven’t even setup my jellyfin service yet, because of lack of time (family and work).
But Iam very glad you took the time to write all this out, I’m currently looking to gathering as much knowledge as I can for the future.
I’ll definitely write to you next week for the download script, if you want to share it
Does this mean that for people who don’t pay they’re going to make the ads twice as annoying?
Twice as frequent and half as skippable maybe.
It’ll be like having visited a bad pornsite in the 90’s and your screen will end up being ads stacked on top of ads.
Might be the end kf the platform if that actually happens, there’s already an insufferable amount of ads as i keep getting these double ad blocks in a row.
For reference this is about $20 USD
It costs so much more to get the packets across the ocean, right?