Technology

And it'll increase further in the near future... Only for background play and Advert removal, 16/month is absurd considering they don't have any content licensing headache and as such unlike Netflix, Disney + etc. Also, in case of YT Music, royalties paid out to artists are pretty opaque and pretty turbulent. Better to buy albums directly to support them. Brave FTW otherwise for YouTube

If you actually want to support artists, don’t. YouTube Music’s royalty payout is far from stable and transparent, not to mention low to others which is already hard to beat really. Tidal comes closest (from what I found to having functionality and paying artists a more fair rate. Qobuz is there too, Deezer pioneers detecting AI garbage that people think makes them artists now. Spotify got most features ofc but they’re unethical as shit

The more they charge, the fewer will pay.

I will never pay for youtube.

This is still in the phase where its a really good deal. The reason i'll never buy it is because I know it will not always be that way.

Youtube what? Ohhh, that annoying popup I always decline. Apparently the price only matters if you buy it.

Newpipe is free. You can donate to support if you'd like. No account required, so no tracking. Subs and history are stored locally. And with an internet condom (VPN) no IP exposure.

Good. Enshittify some more so more people will be driven towards adblocking frontends such as NewPipe and FreeTube. Eat big tech's bandwidth, but starve them of any revenue.

The only time I ever subscribed was when I could pay in Argentina. Came out to like $3.50 per month. Once they patched that loophole, they stopped getting my money.

Youtube already makes more money than Disney, right? So of course they ramp up prices. It‘s a successful product after all and the line must go up. The more money it makes the more expensive it‘ll get.

That‘s why you should never give them anything in the first place and use an Adblocker instead.

I would also recommend Sponsorblock because most Youtube sponsorships are overpriced garbage or complete scams. It honestly seems too good to be true but it‘s open source and apparently can cover operational costs on just donations. What I really like about Sponsorblock is how you can curate your experience to a T. It lets you skip all sort of content that you may not like such as self-promotions, credits, previews/flashbacks, intros, and more. It comes really close to the internet highways concept I have long only dreamed about where you‘re served exactly what you want and you don‘t need a silly AI agent to do any of it.

DeArrow is another useful extension for Youtube, created to remove clickbait from your feed. It removes thumbnails and changes video titles based on user suggestions similar to Sponsorblock.

Youtube „Premium“ could never give you this experience for all the money in the world.

Gonna catch a lot of "get with the times" but an ad blocker and watching YouTube in browser on my phone - I've never seen the value of needing Premium to do adblocking or a whole ass app like Vanced. Maybe sponsorblock for more but like overall, my impression has always been YouTube Premium is a joke of a service that can never offer anything more than adblocking/sponsor block already just does from a browser on my phone.

Who in their right mind actually pays for YouTube?

... people pay for youtube?

... you know you can just block the ads, right?

... and you don't need a propietary app to get youtube on a tv?

I ended my Premium subscription about six months ago and instead got a VPN set to Albania. Ads? Gone. I live fucking with the google's data harvesting operations