forcing many users to consider the unthinkable
Use a firefox clone and ublock?
(and linux, btw)
Honestly I would probably pay for it and be happy but Premium doesn’t solve many of the problems that still exist:
- being shown the same content over and over
- Dislikes hidden
- in-video ads
- Shorts absolutely crammed down your throat everywhere
- broken search results
- AI-generated slop absolutely everywhere
- crypto spam
- Google-connected account using view history to spy on you
etc. etc. All problems Google could solve easily but simply won’t.
I want to cancel
Well until you do. They’re going to keep doing this. ???
forcing many users to consider the unthinkable
… Death???
Prostitution
Where did all those price tiers come from?
I remember YT red, which became premium, and included both music and Youtube.
TIL there is a Music Premium that just gives you music… But YouTube Music is just YouTube with a fancy frontend.
And the price hikes, wow, I signed up for 7.99/mo and remember it becoming 9.99/mo. I completely missed the 13.99/mo price hike.
If you want to also make a political statement out of unsubscribing, check out
Can someone in this thread tell me how to get an ad blocker on my tv?
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
If you’re asking more generally there’s pihole but YouTube delivers ads the same way as videos so it won’t work for that.
Thats a lot of money.
The ‘unthinkable’ of installing an adblocker or using a frontend?
Cancelation unthinkable? Maybe to the posters. Otherwise I can’t see any reason to dread canceling
Also check out what they’re doing if you happened to pay through Apple….
Makes sense. Never pay through Apple if there’s any other option. Can’t fault Google for that.
But even then, $16 per month for Youtube!? An adblocker is cheaper.
Thats because apple adds 30% if you buy through the ios app.
30%
Every. Single. Month. F O R E V E R.
For providing absolutely nothing
Yeah, it’s… interesting. Especially with donations.
Apple takes a 30% cut, then Google does so as well from the remainder.Feeling generous? Congrats, more than a half goes to corporations.
Why doesn’t Google just pay it and absorb the cost like shippers do with tariffs?
/s
Ah good point!
I I received the email today telling me that they were going to raise the price of my family plan by $4 per month. I’m guessing that their costs have not increased in any way, and probably have decreased. I assume it’s just another squeeze tactic from the company that used to not be evil.
I imagine costs have increased (more expensive server components due to ai shortages, more users to stream to, ever-increasing storage for the unthinkable amount of video that gets uploaded to YouTube nonstop). I imagine Google going all in on ai (infinite negative money glitch) costs a lot and they’re trying to cover the costs elsewhere so the investor report doesn’t look so bad and spook stockholders into selling. I’d keep an eye on other Google services to see if their prices also go up over the coming months.
I think its likely the codex price hike, not Ai
Most of their servers are processing and multiencoding with h264/h265, and even if people are moving away from that for av1 they have such a massive platform that they still have to utilize it even when most have moved on
Ill rerespond to this to a link to exactly what im talking about if I remember
Not defending Google, but how many employees do they have? Did they all get raises this year? I bet license deals from the music industry probably went up too. (No proof but assuming)
But I agree 100%, they are without a doubt no longer following “don’t be evil”. But it’s disingenuous to believe they’re annual costs are not increasing along with literally everything else.
I wasn’t being disingenuous and I just validated my assumptions.
The cost of compute per million instructions has continued to decrease. The cost of storage on HDD has also continued to decrease, albeit more slowly. The cost of NAND storage has increased due to the supply crunch that Google helped create. Average pay at Google has gone up 5% over the past two years, but this is offset at least in part by mass layoffs. License fees for music have remained stagnant.
While a lot of those things are arguable one way or another, depending on whose numbers you look at and what specific details you want to focus on, one thing is not. Google’s profits have nearly doubled in the past 3 years. There is no reason for a price increase beyond corporate greed.
Lol haven’t paid for their services and still enjoying premium. Suck it Google.
How do you think the unthinkable? With an ithberg.
Maybe because im a millennial but it’s easier than ever to have all the music you could ever want downloaded and playing off local storage, idk i don’t get it i guess it sucks listening to some online playlist and every few songs one is just stuff you’d never choose to listen to.
Funny, I’m a Gen X - and I have everything locally stored and with over 400 gb of music commercial free. -I could just put the whole thing on shuffle for the next few years. Still sometimes listen to ad supported Spotify tho as am used to radio.
