You got suckered when you bought it. They’re just milking the cow now.
AeternusDoleo
Feels like Youtube is trying to go to war with the ‘net.
Going to war with your customers rarely ends well. See: Disney.
CankleDankl
Didn’t they jack up the price like 2 or 3 months ago
Tz_Grim
Why would anyone even pay for premium? Only reason i can think of is because of mobile, but even then I wouldn’t pay.
ripnburn69
still worth it
MisterWapak
GUYS GUYS, WE FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE WHO BOUGHT THE PREMIUM ?!!!
LightyLittleDust
After bs like this, I’d cancel my membership in a heartbeat.
lexsanders
It’s fine if nobody pays and it goes out of businesses. We will just touch more grass. Or you know, read a E book.
po3smith
Once a company starts nickel and …
Blitzende
Feels like upper management pushed through these price increases before they realised they were going to lose the adblocker war….
wncryz
I am paying the same price (100 hrn which was about 4-6 usd in 2020 and 2,5 usd now) for almost 4 years and they didn’t increase it. It is very cheap right now and I think its okay that they do, it should’ve happened some day. But i dont know what price it’ll be
KingFIippyNipz
Dang I got a YouTube Premium free sub for buying a monitor and have actually been using YouTube on my Roku YouTube app (cuz without premium the ads…) and I was actually enjoying it enough and pay for no other streaming services that I was going to consider ACTUALLY PAYING at the price point. I know, I’m sick. But anyway, not now.
Karl_with_a_C
My biggest issue is that you *have* to get YouTube Music with Premium. That’s where most of the “value” is, hence the price, but I don’t want YouTube Music. I just want ad-free YouTube. Let me just pay for that. I have Spotify for music and have no intrest in another service.
$17/mo is insane if I just want YouTube with no ads.
alsophocus
I feel like my subscription to YouTube is like a Stockholm Syndrome. I fucking hate it, and I also have to pay for the fuckin music subscription which is useless to me because I already pay for Apple Music, for which I pay a fraction, cause it comes included in an awesome paid services (Apple one) which includes Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, AND Storage, for the same price I’m paying the fucking YouTube Premium, only because I hate ADS more.
Kvas_HardBass
The question is, why the fuck do you have premium in first place?
Vinelasher
I had premium for about half a year until ~2 Months ago. The idea was that given it includes YT music, I could justify the price.
However YT music just sucks. Which is why I stopped my premium subscription in the end.
NoKroger
You’ll live
Gr33nUp20
17$ a month for downloading vids and having no ads 💀
ctachi
Bro I’ve been with YouTube premium since back when it was called YouTube Red and was included with my Google Play Music subscription. Figure they’d let me keep the price for my loyalty but I guess google needs to squeeze anything they can, it’s not like they’re a trillion dollar company or anything
skot77
Wait until they include ads with another rate hike. Ya know… To help creators.
Tekjive
Fuck Google
ldontgeit
Wth is on their minds? just before adblock ban they didnt give a shit about the pricing, now that some people are actually considering buying premium they are reaising the price? i really dont get it.
ItsYeBoi2016
My Turkish payment also went from 1€ to 1.60€ 😔
marcgii
Is this Apple pricing? Canadian? The new price 14 not 17
blandhotsauce1985
This is what pushed me to cancel that shit and just go with newpipe whenever I need to watch add free and listen to music. Vimusic is good too.
RevTurk
Poor google isn’t making enough money.
Zehdmac
You all are so fucking dumbfounded that people watch YouTube on things other than their desktops
F34RTEHR34PER
I’ve canceled every service I had when they did a price increase 2022 and 2023. This will be the next one on the chopping block.
tonyt3rry
I really dont get why they are raising prices, if they made a ad free option that was cheap im sure most who mainly watch youtube would pay. but when you are forced to pay for a shitty music service thats worse than tidal and spotify most are just gonna skip when you dont need 2 services when 1 of them has less music on it.
greeneggsnyams
YouTube premium is not worth even $15 a month, esp when competitors have to actually make their own content. YouTube just has to store it
Agreeable_Rush_5965
I pay £1.something so idc
copying_all
“We don’t make these decisions lightly” my ass
Midnight28Rider
In case you’ve been living under a rock since 2019, I’m here to inform you that EVERYTHING is getting more expensive. Some of it is due to actual and necessary inflation, while most of it is simple predatory capitalism. The government has done nothing to slow this steep and unnecessary price gouging, so we’re left to vote with our money. I’ve been canceling services like this en masse. Until decisions like this negatively affect corporations, it’ll keep happening.
slightawtist
In Australia, my partner sent me a screenshot that hers is being put up to around $40/month
Egbeem
They demonetize channels, then still run ads on the videos while telling the creators they can’t delete the content. Fuck YouTube.
coffeejn
I’d cancel and ask that they show me ads. Then start looking for something else. Way too expensive for what you get and are used to getting.
Plus the algorithm has been giving too much crap that I keep telling I am not interested in. F that.
yllanos
MisterSheeple
This is some of the most transparent YouTube bullshit I’ve seen in a while. They’re raising the prices of their ad-free tier while attempting to prevent ad blockers from using the site. It sounds like they want neither of those two groups of people to watch videos ad free. It’s almost as if videos with ads are far more profitable for them than the monthly cost of Premium. Just some food for thought I suppose.
CurrentlyLucid
Youtube has subscriptions? I don’t even sign in.
CorvusNyxian
YouTube: “All the moneyS! NeedS it! REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!”
Google can go fuck itself.
DieSturmkatze
Just use revanced
Icantdrawlol
On PC: Firefox + Ublock Origin
On phone: Brave Browser
I will never buy YouTube premium nor will I use the internet without any adblocker. Fuck ads.
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“This is the first ever price increase…”
tomorrow:
“This is the second ever price increase…”
You got suckered when you bought it. They’re just milking the cow now.
Feels like Youtube is trying to go to war with the ‘net.
Going to war with your customers rarely ends well. See: Disney.
Didn’t they jack up the price like 2 or 3 months ago
Why would anyone even pay for premium? Only reason i can think of is because of mobile, but even then I wouldn’t pay.
still worth it
GUYS GUYS, WE FINALLY FOUND SOMEONE WHO BOUGHT THE PREMIUM ?!!!
After bs like this, I’d cancel my membership in a heartbeat.
It’s fine if nobody pays and it goes out of businesses. We will just touch more grass. Or you know, read a E book.
Once a company starts nickel and …
Feels like upper management pushed through these price increases before they realised they were going to lose the adblocker war….
I am paying the same price (100 hrn which was about 4-6 usd in 2020 and 2,5 usd now) for almost 4 years and they didn’t increase it. It is very cheap right now and I think its okay that they do, it should’ve happened some day. But i dont know what price it’ll be
Dang I got a YouTube Premium free sub for buying a monitor and have actually been using YouTube on my Roku YouTube app (cuz without premium the ads…) and I was actually enjoying it enough and pay for no other streaming services that I was going to consider ACTUALLY PAYING at the price point. I know, I’m sick. But anyway, not now.
My biggest issue is that you *have* to get YouTube Music with Premium. That’s where most of the “value” is, hence the price, but I don’t want YouTube Music. I just want ad-free YouTube. Let me just pay for that. I have Spotify for music and have no intrest in another service.
$17/mo is insane if I just want YouTube with no ads.
I feel like my subscription to YouTube is like a Stockholm Syndrome. I fucking hate it, and I also have to pay for the fuckin music subscription which is useless to me because I already pay for Apple Music, for which I pay a fraction, cause it comes included in an awesome paid services (Apple one) which includes Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, AND Storage, for the same price I’m paying the fucking YouTube Premium, only because I hate ADS more.
The question is, why the fuck do you have premium in first place?
I had premium for about half a year until ~2 Months ago. The idea was that given it includes YT music, I could justify the price.
However YT music just sucks. Which is why I stopped my premium subscription in the end.
You’ll live
17$ a month for downloading vids and having no ads 💀
Bro I’ve been with YouTube premium since back when it was called YouTube Red and was included with my Google Play Music subscription. Figure they’d let me keep the price for my loyalty but I guess google needs to squeeze anything they can, it’s not like they’re a trillion dollar company or anything
Wait until they include ads with another rate hike. Ya know… To help creators.
Fuck Google
Wth is on their minds? just before adblock ban they didnt give a shit about the pricing, now that some people are actually considering buying premium they are reaising the price? i really dont get it.
My Turkish payment also went from 1€ to 1.60€ 😔
Is this Apple pricing? Canadian? The new price 14 not 17
This is what pushed me to cancel that shit and just go with newpipe whenever I need to watch add free and listen to music. Vimusic is good too.
Poor google isn’t making enough money.
You all are so fucking dumbfounded that people watch YouTube on things other than their desktops
I’ve canceled every service I had when they did a price increase 2022 and 2023. This will be the next one on the chopping block.
I really dont get why they are raising prices, if they made a ad free option that was cheap im sure most who mainly watch youtube would pay. but when you are forced to pay for a shitty music service thats worse than tidal and spotify most are just gonna skip when you dont need 2 services when 1 of them has less music on it.
YouTube premium is not worth even $15 a month, esp when competitors have to actually make their own content. YouTube just has to store it
I pay £1.something so idc
“We don’t make these decisions lightly” my ass
In case you’ve been living under a rock since 2019, I’m here to inform you that EVERYTHING is getting more expensive. Some of it is due to actual and necessary inflation, while most of it is simple predatory capitalism. The government has done nothing to slow this steep and unnecessary price gouging, so we’re left to vote with our money. I’ve been canceling services like this en masse. Until decisions like this negatively affect corporations, it’ll keep happening.
In Australia, my partner sent me a screenshot that hers is being put up to around $40/month
They demonetize channels, then still run ads on the videos while telling the creators they can’t delete the content. Fuck YouTube.
I’d cancel and ask that they show me ads. Then start looking for something else. Way too expensive for what you get and are used to getting.
Plus the algorithm has been giving too much crap that I keep telling I am not interested in. F that.
This is some of the most transparent YouTube bullshit I’ve seen in a while. They’re raising the prices of their ad-free tier while attempting to prevent ad blockers from using the site. It sounds like they want neither of those two groups of people to watch videos ad free. It’s almost as if videos with ads are far more profitable for them than the monthly cost of Premium. Just some food for thought I suppose.
Youtube has subscriptions? I don’t even sign in.
YouTube: “All the moneyS! NeedS it! REEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!”
Google can go fuck itself.
Just use revanced
On PC: Firefox + Ublock Origin
On phone: Brave Browser
I will never buy YouTube premium nor will I use the internet without any adblocker. Fuck ads.