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Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month (9to5google.com)

submitted 1 year ago by fne8w2ah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] sf1tzp@programming.dev 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Wait, what the FUCK!?!

This price increase is live for new subscribers as seen on youtube.com/premium. Instead of $11.99, YouTube Premium now costs $13.99/month. Meanwhile, it’s $18.99 if you’re subscribing from the iOS YouTube app.

I’ve been paying $4/month over market rate this whole time?

[–] freundTech@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. That's normal if you subscribe to things through (iOS or android) apps.

Google and apple don't allow apps you roll their own payment methods to "protect their users". Apps have to use the Google/Apple payment system where Google/Apple take a 30% cut of every payment.

With YouTube being owner by Google they probably don't have to pay those 30% on Android, but they have to on iOS.

[–] sf1tzp@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah. When you put it that way, it’s totally understandable.

But now I’ve betrayed the fact that I’m willing to pay a lot for community driven content :D

Still switching around as soon as I’m back at my PC though

[–] fne8w2ah@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apple tax.

[–] sf1tzp@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ve heard about it but didn’t realize someone like google would blatantly do this. SMH

On PC, I’ve never watched ads. Only bought premium after getting an iPhone 2 years ago.

Appreciate being able to support creators while not watching ads ¯_ (ツ)_/¯ , lot of good that did me.

[–] jwagner7813@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Create a problem. Generate a paid for solution. ??? Profit!

[–] nanyabusiness@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean if you're using Apple then it's kind of a given that you don't care about corporations bending you over... have you considered perhaps using Gentoo and moving to the woods to live in recluse?

[–] sf1tzp@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not really though? Apple makes good hardware and operating systems, and generally have a good privacy-forward stance when it comes to software (in my opinion).

Unfortunately it’s not as cut and dry as “use Gentoo” - if my ad revenue is potentially worth x, lemme just pay x for the service. I know I’m not alone in this sense.

[–] nanyabusiness@lemmynsfw.com 0 points 1 year ago

Yeah but when dealing with closed-source, they can just pull the wool over your eye and profit off of you twice. Apple has a façade of privacy but is in fact worse than other platforms, which at least don't try to pretend.

[–] PipedLinkBot@feddit.rocks 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/premium

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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