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I 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 fro
by mark_l_watson 4y ago
I 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.