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Ascend910 ,

Jokes on them I use Brave and Revenced

Summzashi ,

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    Ascend910 ,

    It is okay, just use what you want :) There is no need to be a Reddit user here, we are in Lemmy now❤️

    livedeified ,
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    I was grandfathered in from the Google Play Music days. I enjoyed being able to upload my CDs to my library. still locked in at $8 a month. no YouTube ads and no music ads.

    Pinto23 ,

    I pay 12.99 and that was my max :( Gonna be hard pressed to cancel the subscription. Guess I’m going to learn how to use those workarounds and just save the 12.99. Well now 13.99 starting in September

    Arthur_Leywin ,

    Extensions I’d recommend: uBlock Origin, Improve YouTube, PocketTube, SponsorBlock for YouTube, BlockTube, Return Dislike to YouTube, YouTube Shorts-block.

    Wildf1re ,

    I pay in Turkish lira, now it’s pennies per month. Cancel, then VPN to turkey. Head to YouTube,log in, purchase and hey presto, cheap as. I buy with a resolute account.

    azalty ,
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    I prefer not supporting the Turkish economy

    jungekatz ,

    Well if u primarily use android and a desktop u have better options than actual premium ! I mean sponsorblock and getting dislikes back are awesome too !

    DAC_Protogen ,
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    Honestly… YouTube Premium is just wasted money. It’s a difficult situation. You can watch YouTube for free and without ads already, by simply using a decent browser like Firefox and installing the uBlock Origin addon to block the ads. (Google is fighting adblockers and anything based on Chrome, so 90% of browsers out there will limit their functionality in the future, btw. Use Firefox or something based on it to keep at least a bit of your privacy and freedom of choice.) And you can even automatically skip the sponsorship messages in videos with Sponsorblock. But if you think you would support the content creators with YouTube Premium, think again. You’re mostly paying Google for their servers / platform. A platform that treats its content creators pretty bad, finds all kinds of ways to not pay them / reasons to demonetize their videos to grab 100% of the ad income and has become more and more privacy invasive and aggressive with ads over the years towards its users. And in terms of music, YouTube doesn’t license every single song individually from the musician. They just pay a royalty towards huge labels and companies like Sony, which in turn keep the absolutely most part of that for themselves instead of paying the artists. Yes, by watching videos for free with adblockers, content creators and YouTube aren’t being paid and in a way you are part of a problem. But consider this: Any subscription based content service like Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Premium starts by paying its content creators at least a bit of money, but uses bait & switch tactics to lower that payment per stream more and more over time. Once they have all the creators, music / content and viewers comfortably on board, they start grabbing the money for themselves. It’s a systemic issue with streaming platforms in general and always the short end of the stick for the very people who create the content that makes the platform successful and useful in the first place. And if you feel guilty for cutting off the often self-proclaimed “content creators”… YouTube has mechanisms in place to directly support them (while taking a cut for YouTube), like “super chats” and “super stickers” and most of them these days have a Patreon account for direct monetary support and sponsorships going on. But yes, only those content creators who actually offer quality content will benefit from these things, what about all the others, you may ask. Well, let’s be brutally honest. A whole lot of content offered on YouTube is bullshit. It’s either copying successful people’s video style, low-cost, low effort, low quality beginners stuff, clickbait, disinformation, mentally unhealthy nonsense, copyright infringing stuff, and these days even AI generated crap with no value. If all of that would stop being made because no money is to be made on the platform, we wouldn’t miss out on anything. True quality will always be supported directly by fans and sponsors. And as harsh as it sounds… the rest is obsolete and may fall victim to natural selection. Might even raise the quality of content on the platform overall. Feel free to pay for YouTube Premium, if it makes you feel better. But know that absolutely most of it will only benefit Google. Personally, I don’t have the money to pay like 130 bucks a year just to feel like a good person. And those aggressive ads are bad for mental health and sometimes are a vehicle for malware, aside from the technology behind them absolutely shredding your privacy. I’m having none of that. I’ll watch that stuff with adblockers as long as it works, and if that stops working some day, I’ll spend my time with something better, maybe going outside and touching grass or something.

    Platform27 ,

    Honestly, this is ridiculous. I’d consider it if this stopped Alphabet (Google) tracking/telemetry, and thus no ads on the entire platform. Though just for YouTube, and YouTube Music (a service I don’t use, nor care for)… nah.

    victron ,
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    And I’m pretty sure their youtube premium ads are going to be more annoying.

    SaltyLemon ,
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    I’ve cancelled my google subscription when they killed play music. Bunch of wankers. They went from one of the best tech companies to the worst in the span of ten years.

    focusedkiwibear ,

    Is this their first or second price hike? I’ve had it since it was Red - I’ll probably just hang in since there isn’t a great alternative.

    anon_water ,
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    How do I have YouTube premium for $6.99/month then? The author states five years ago the price went to 10.99. I got premium 1 year ago.

    AceBonobo ,

    Sounds like the price for a student discount

    anon_water ,
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    Yes that must be it.

    kill_dash_nine ,

    I would consider it for $6.99/month. Do you have a student account or something? The closest cost that I see online is the Student cost which currently says $7.99/mo which I am assuming is the newly adjusted price. The individual annual plan is showing around $11.66/mo.

    jungekatz ,

    Are there any alternatives for ios ? I already use revanced on my android

    TheDark ,
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    Adblocker on pc, IMHO the ads on my phone aren’t that bad.

    idolofdust ,

    uYou+ sideloaded through AltStore/SideStore

    Crewmator ,

    “Yattee” is a Youtube client with piped proxy support

    sol ,

    If i make a post about my business changing his prices wouldn’t that count as advertising and spam? Why is this advertising being allowed?

    madcaesar ,

    My buisness is shit and I’m raising my prices!

    That’s not advertisement my guy.

    sol ,

    So i can make a post about my personal business changing its products prices?

    madcaesar ,

    If you include how shitty your business is and everyone sees it, go for it.

    azalty ,
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    Most people know and use YT, I don’t think that’s an ad haha, just news about a well known and used platform

    only0218 ,

    Pain

    Lobo6780 ,

    Yeah and now I’m Gucci staying at 29,99 try per month paying with Turkish lira being in Poland and paying 4,50 zł instead of 29,99 zł. Very good deal google :)

    Veticia ,
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    If they made YouTube paid only and lowered subscription to $1-2/month I might consider.

    Codandchips ,
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    I’ve also noticed now that the video quality option on some accounts requires YT Premium to watch in 1080 60

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