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Yet they forced all Google workspace users that were grandfathered in free plans to start paying and are currently forcing grandfathered Google music (YouTube p
by sschueller 4y ago
Yet they forced all Google workspace users that were grandfathered in free plans to start paying and are currently forcing grandfathered Google music (YouTube premium) family subscribers to eat a +50% price increase.
Why would I stay with Google if my loyalty counts for nothing?
Same goes for Netflix, if you aren't going to reward me being with you from day 1 why should I show you any loyalty?
I will take full advantage of any free trials and cancled at the end switching from one to the other.
- hbn 4y ago> Why would I stay with Google if my loyalty counts for nothing? Sure, I'll go get my ad-free YouTube from the competition
- verisimilitudes 4y agoWatching advertisements is completely optional.
- blibble 4y agothe competition is a github page with a patched youtube app
- hbn 4y agoNot every platform has an ad blocker or patched app solution.
- blibble 4y agoandroid and ios do that leaves crappy settop boxes
- anikom15 4y agoI just set up my TV as a second monitor so I can watch YouTube on a normal web browser (with uBlock Origin) on it.
- hbn 4y agoiOS has an ad-free YouTube app? Or do you mean a Safari adblocker and then watching all your YouTube in Safari where the experience sucks? What if I want to AirPlay? What about Chromecast?
- blibble 4y ago> iOS has an ad-free YouTube app? yes > What if I want to AirPlay? What about Chromecast? "that leaves crappy settop boxes"
- 1-6 4y agoJust VPN to a country with a cheaper monthly. Use the Privacy app to get a new CC#. Get your Premium that way.
- mark_l_watson 4y agoI didn’t even blink when I saw the cost of a family plan for YouTube+YouTube Music increase. My wife and I prefer YouTube Music to Apple Music (which we get from an Apple+ family plan) and we watch a lot on YouTube. I know that there are tools to block YouTube ads, but it seems more ethical to me to pay for something we use hours a day. Pardon some humor: I laugh when non-tech friends don’t want to pay for ad-free YouTube but they will spend a ton of money every month at Starbucks. Between lots of quality material on philosophy, beautiful background nature videos, Lex Firdman interviews, online class materials, Dust sci-fi short films, etc., etc. YouTube is probably the best value of anything I spend money for.
- sschueller 4y agoI was paying 15 USD, it's 23 USD now. That's a huge increase. Also the ad volume on YouTube has dramatically increased.
- juice_bus 4y agoYou're not even spared from baked in sponsors to the videos, so ublock origin and SponserBlock are more effective for me.
- munificent 4y ago> I was paying 15 USD, it's 23 USD now. Have you looked the change in your grocery bills in that time? Prices are going up everywhere.
- mark_l_watson 4y agoBecause my wife has been retired for a long time, we subscribe to just about every streaming service. Whenever other services’ prices go up, I sort of resent it but not with YouTube. It is true that “internal ads” that people place inside of their content seem to be more prevalent. I don’t see other ads on YouTube.
- magicalist 4y ago> Same goes for Netflix, if you aren't going to reward me being with you from day 1 why should I show you any loyalty? Are you saying Netflix shouldn't raise your rate because you subscribed from day 1? I don't like cost increases either, but this seems like a weird thing to demand.
- czhu12 4y agoWe don’t like it when a service is ad funded and we don’t like it when we have to pay for it also? I think consumers have just come to expect investors to subsidize forever. It’s had a market distorting effect for too long