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zxo , to technology in YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.

NewPipe costs $13.99 less on my phone (where I watch YouTube most), and it has a better UX (for me) than the official app.

pazzedq ,
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Also check out ReVanced. It’s great.

Gatopardo ,

Any idea what to do to install microG? Whenever I try it says it conflicts with another instance, but no idea where is the old app.

pazzedq ,
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Go to Settings > Apps > See all apps > YouTube and tap Disable.

Gatopardo ,

I have had that since day one. I used to have normal Vanced. But it has stopped working and I wanted.to figure out ReVanced. But I have not succeeded so far

pazzedq ,
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Okay, have you uninstalled Vanced and the old microG?

draoda , to technology in YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.
@draoda@lemmy.world avatar

With the way YouTube treats creators with their demonetization policies, there’s no way I am going to pay for that.

benwubbleyou , to technology in YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.

I know I am gonna be one of the few, but I use YouTube as my main viewing of things. I don’t use Netflix, or any of the other services much. Premium is something I can’t be without anymore tbh, the ad free and downloading is super convenient for me and I like how a lot of my premium subscription goes to the creators I watch the most.

ndguardian ,

That’s where I’m at. I use it regularly for learning new things and for entertainment, so I don’t mind paying for it, and getting rid of ads while supporting creators is perfectly fine with me.

weedazz ,

Same, YouTube is the first app I go to when turning on my tv

bizzle ,
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I pirate EVERYTHING I watch… except for YouTube. I gladly pay that.

spicycape ,

Yup happy to pay what I pay for youtube premium and youtube music, totally worth it for both!

Maybe I could find it expensive if it was only one service

benwubbleyou ,

I don’t use YouTube music and don’t find the price too absurd considering the average daily watch time I have.

TopRamenBinLaden , (edited )

You can get ad free Youtube with Firefox plus ublock origin for free. There are even Firefox extensions to skip the paid sponsor ads in every youtube video nowadays. There are also countless Youtube downloader programs out there. You don’t need to pay for it at all to get the features that YouTube premium offers.

Paying to support content creators is the only reason I would consider YouTube premium unless I was very tech illiterate, I guess. YouTube music also seems somewhat worth the price, in my opinion.

Edit: This comment can come off as condescending. I don’t mean it as such, if you pay for YouTube premium that’s cool. I just wanted to make it known that people don’t have to pay YouTube money to get those features if they don’t want to.

benwubbleyou ,

I get where you’re coming from, however I find it is personally easier and it is within my financial means to pay for premium instead. I am aware not everyone can but I am glad I can do that. I also support some creators through Patreon for their YouTube content as well. Currently, I am almost completely ad free with the content I consume and sometimes that means I pay money and other times I use an ad blocker. I should also note that I watch the majority of YouTube on my iPhone or on a PS4 and while there are alternatives on the App Stores I prefer the native YouTube apps.

linearchaos ,
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I don’t have a problem with them charging for the service. But they keep raising it dramatically over and over. You’re paying $15 a month to watch content a YouTube creator is getting 25 cents to create. If they wanted to charge $9.99 a month for a family plan I’d be all about it. At the prices they’re charging there are services running full blown movie houses

sweeny , (edited )

YouTube is a full blown movie house as well as a place for independent creators *Oops I was wrong

linearchaos ,
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It appears to me they’ve stopped their original productions.

ramble81 , to technology in YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.

Maybe mentally I’ve already been hit with inflation, but $2 and “significant increase” do not tie out to me.

just_change_it , to technology in Kevin Mitnick, formerly the world’s ‘most-wanted’ hacker, has passed away

Way younger than I expected. 59 is young.

His wife looks like she’s 18 based on social media photos.

scutiger ,

She’s pregnant with his first child. I don’t know how old she is, but 60 is pretty old for your first child. But besides the cancer, he seemed to be happy.

Havald , to technology in YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.

What do you need an announcement for? They’ll have informed the affected subscribers by mail, as they always do, and adjusted the prices on the sign-up page. Who else needs to be informed? I don’t really give a shot about the pricing of a service I don’t use.

atomdmac ,

I’m a subscriber and received no such notification. This is the first I’m hearing of it.

Saltycreams , to technology in YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.
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Is there any alternative on Xbox? I kinda doubt it. I have premium mainly because that’s where I watch it. Getting sick of every tech company shoving their fingers in my purse though

deweydecibel ,

Doubt it. Your best bet will be an Android TV with side loading.

provomeister ,
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Maybe the web browser and going to an Invidious / Piped instance, but the experience probably wouldn’t be optimal…

You could also change your DNS settings to AdGuard or PiHole. This would block ads even outside the YouTube app. Try this: windowscentral.com/how-block-ads-and-trackers-xbo…

Metal_Zealot , to technology in YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.
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Wow, and I just cancelled mine yesterday, crazy timing.

How can billion dollar companies justify this bullshit, when their main source of income is advertisers anyways?

Marcy_Stella ,

YouTube premium is their way of hedging bets against advertiser revolts they don’t want a controversy like Elsagate or Logan Paul’s forest adventures to cause their profits to tank.

xenomor , to technology in Kevin Mitnick, formerly the world’s ‘most-wanted’ hacker, has passed away

Here is ‘Freedom Downtime’ the 2600 documentary that covers some of his story and the Free Kevin movement. youtu.be/B2ac98FUMq8

PipedLinkBot ,

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): piped.video/B2ac98FUMq8

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

I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

xenomor , to technology in Kevin Mitnick, formerly the world’s ‘most-wanted’ hacker, has passed away

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    PipedLinkBot ,

    Here is an alternative Piped link(s): piped.video/B2ac98FUMq8

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

    I’m open-source, check me out at GitHub.

    mrmanager , to technology in YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.
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    Lol 14 dollars for YouTube without ads when you can just run Newpipe. :)

    Okalaydokalay , to technology in YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.

    It wasn’t even worth the $12 they were charging.

    neal , to technology in YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.

    I must be grandfathered in. I have YouTube Music for $9.99 a month that also includes YouTube Premium

    GentlemanLoser ,

    Same. Hope it lasts

    BeMoreCareful ,

    I just got an email saying they’re going to raise those rates too.

    EternalWarBear ,

    You’re not the only one. Sad times, although I’m probably keep it with the bump. I was using another service for hi-rez, but gonna be canceling and just moving back to YT Music. Moved off in the first place because the UI is kinda ass (still is for the most part).

    And that my work center, for the longest time, blocked YT from COVID to limit bandwidth for people that got to work from home. Luckily it’s not anymore. So just had to pay a service to get all of my liked songs over.

    Hazdaz , to technology in Kevin Mitnick, formerly the world’s ‘most-wanted’ hacker, has passed away

    Man, I remember reading about blue boxes and chrome boxes and not fully understanding it all, but it was fun learning about that stuff.

    bl4ckblooc , to technology in YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.

    And yet they will probably say that subscribers are up, without mentioning that most of them are from countries like India where it costs $22.50 CAD per year.

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