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[–] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's not what Grandfathered means. Basically, original subscribers are being forced onto a new contract.

[–] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ya. I was originally a Google Play music subscriber which got turned into YouTube music, for $9.99usd. Now they're increasing the cost by like $4 after December. So I moved to the spotify family plan and now I share with my love ones for only a little bit more than the new YT price.

YT music was turning to sit though. It would always play music video audio with long ass shitty intros when the studio album music existed in their catalog. Even with the music video option turned to off.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

the ublock origin experience is cheaper

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

People are paying $23 for this???

Honestly shocked.

And it's Google, so you know they are going to keep raising prices, probably adding some ads also in the near future. And of course selling your behavior to advertisers as well, that's a given.

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's cheaper for me to just bump up my Adguard DNS subscription on my home router. Though I've only done limited testing to see how efficient it handles YT ads. (so far seems to work).

Honestly, the $3 CAD I spend on Adguard DNS through my router has been incredible. I'm flabbergasted when I connect to someone else's Wi-Fi and see what the Internet looks like outside my door walls.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

why are you paying for DNS?

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Never found a free one that works as well at blocking ads and trackers.

[–] aniki@lemm.ee -1 points 1 year ago
[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

revanced is still $0/month

[–] histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 year ago

grayjay as well

[–] remer@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I was grandfathered in at the announcement Google Play Music All Access price of $7.99. They better not raise it. They said during the announcement they would never raise the price for those that signed up then.

Edit: Class action anyone?