The countries where YouTube Premium is getting more expensive include Argentina, Australia, Austria, Chile, Germany, Poland, and Turkey.

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    1 year ago

    What a terrible strategy…

    Hey you should consider not blocking ads and joining YouTube Premium! By the way we just increased the price of the service you currently virtually have for free.

  • Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    Corporate greed is the reason I run my own pirate media server with 32tb of storage and only access youtube through revanced.

    I used to quite happily pay for Netflix and YouTube Premium. Now that money goes to a domain registrar and usenet provider. Fuck em.

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    1 year ago

    They got rid of premium lite :( I just want no ads, I don’t care about youtube music or any other features.

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    1 year ago

    Fuck Youtube, I hope peertube takes off!

    It’s really struggling with content and users though. Servers exist, they’re not really the big issue.

    • olsonexi@lemmy.wtf
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      1 year ago

      Unfortunately, until and unless peertube can pay creators (so basically never), it will only ever see use by foss enthusiasts, and even then only hobbyists will use it as their primary platform. For someone making a career out of it, youtube is pretty much the only real option at the moment.

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        1 year ago

        I disagree. I believe that the problem is that if you upload videos there they don’t automatically get a few views. Peertube basically doesn’t have an audience.

        Earning money with Youtube already is very hard, you need large amount of viewers and it’s not enough so many youtubers resort to adverts and product placement within their videos.

        Peertube actually has a button that creators can activate. If a user presses it they will see a popup with markdown formatted text where the creator can put their affiliate links, patreon, paypal and whatever they like. I think it’s a very neat solution, since it’s unobtrusive for the user and very flexible for the creator.

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    1 year ago

    I have no problem with paying for no ads, in fact I think it’s ideal. But they keep increasing prices and justifying it by including YT Music. Honestly, if you aren’t paying for another music service already it’s a great deal. Problem is I don’t know anyone that does this.

    • Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I did this, but I was paying for YouTube music and then noticed that YT Premium was thrown in. I don’t care about that but my daughter watches YT, so great. Then they raised the price to be significantly higher than other music apps so I cancelled. Right about then, they threw in YT Premium for free with my Fi plan so I was back in. Turns out that was only a 1 year trial and it’s up next week. We’ve moved to another music service and my daughter is learning about ad blockers and alternative front ends now.

      Thanks Google!

    • PopOfAfrica@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      They also harvest your data. It’s not like you’re just paying for no ads. You’re paying AND they’re stealing your crap.

    • yuunikki@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      1 year ago

      I’m not paying no ads. I will gladly use ublock-origin and they’ll just keep one upping YouTube every time they try to put ads in

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    1 year ago

    Lol are Turkey and Argentina included because a lot of people use vpn and sign up there?

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    1 year ago

    my cost already went up two months ago, if it hikes again I’m bailing on premium. I think the current price is outrageous as it is. I thought I was going to cancel last time but I never did. but a raise again will put it more then I make an hour, and there’s no way i can choke that down for a free service. I’ll just go twitch only.