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Though I do suspect I'm in the minority on this website, £12.99 a month (£155.88 a year) for one website is very hard to justify when you're on very little inco

Though I do suspect I'm in the minority on this website, £12.99 a month (£155.88 a year) for one website is very hard to justify when you're on very little income.

netmare 3y ago
I would pay much more for YouTube if they offered proper search and filtering tools. There's so much interesting stuff hidden behind light years of fluff. Ymmv, of course.
carlosjobim 3y ago
If you own anything that breaks during that year, you can probably recoup all that money by watching a YouTube video with instructions of how to fix it. Edit for the angry down voting hackers: Try searching YouTube next time you have a problem with your vehicle or household appliance. There is usually somebody there who made a video showing you exactly how to fix it by yourself, so you don't have to buy a new one or pay somebody to fix it. There is no better resource AFAIK.
edgyquant 3y ago
Then perhaps that says all we need to know about the value of these services. $15 a month isn’t nothing but is pretty cheap as far as bills go
JumpCrisscross 3y ago
> £12.99 a month (£155.88 a year) for one website is very hard to justify when you're on very little income They are positioning YouTube as a super-premium product (relative to other streaming services). An underlying takeaway might be that advertisers no longer value users "on very little income" in a positive real-rate environment.
izacus 3y ago
If you have very little income, the service is supported with ads.
- tentacleuno 3y ago
  It's not just advertisements, though -- individual creators run sponsors, Patreons, and their own midroll ads. A pretty crazy percentage of YouTube is ads, even with uBlock Origin.
  - izacus 3y ago
    Yeah, that's how the creators fund themselves. (I'd prefer if YT would prevent creators for advertising in Premium videos, but I bet that would not be accepted happily either.)
    - tentacleuno 3y ago
      > Yeah, that's how the creators fund themselves. ...alongside advertisements. They do get a share.
AlienRobot 3y ago
I agree it sucks, but if we are being honest here, technology was never for people on very little income. Everything has been free for so long because of ads, but then people started using ad blockers, so the services responded by adding more ads, leading more people to use more ad blockers. I don't think most people who use ad blockers understand that the ads are literally the price you pay for the service. If you think your time is worth more than the ad length, work for an hour and pay the subscription. I know it sounds crazy when I put it this way, but there's no such thing as free internet video.

Though I do suspect I'm in the minority on this website, £12.99 a month (£155.88 a year) for one website is very hard to justify when you're on very little income.

netmare 3y ago

I would pay much more for YouTube if they offered proper search and filtering tools. There's so much interesting stuff hidden behind light years of fluff. Ymmv, of course.

carlosjobim 3y ago

If you own anything that breaks during that year, you can probably recoup all that money by watching a YouTube video with instructions of how to fix it. Edit for the angry down voting hackers: Try searching YouTube next time you have a problem with your vehicle or household appliance. There is usually somebody there who made a video showing you exactly how to fix it by yourself, so you don't have to buy a new one or pay somebody to fix it. There is no better resource AFAIK.

edgyquant 3y ago

Then perhaps that says all we need to know about the value of these services. $15 a month isn’t nothing but is pretty cheap as far as bills go

JumpCrisscross 3y ago

> £12.99 a month (£155.88 a year) for one website is very hard to justify when you're on very little income They are positioning YouTube as a super-premium product (relative to other streaming services). An underlying takeaway might be that advertisers no longer value users "on very little income" in a positive real-rate environment.

izacus 3y ago

If you have very little income, the service is supported with ads.

tentacleuno 3y ago
It's not just advertisements, though -- individual creators run sponsors, Patreons, and their own midroll ads. A pretty crazy percentage of YouTube is ads, even with uBlock Origin.
- izacus 3y ago
  Yeah, that's how the creators fund themselves. (I'd prefer if YT would prevent creators for advertising in Premium videos, but I bet that would not be accepted happily either.)
  - tentacleuno 3y ago
    > Yeah, that's how the creators fund themselves. ...alongside advertisements. They do get a share.

AlienRobot 3y ago

I agree it sucks, but if we are being honest here, technology was never for people on very little income. Everything has been free for so long because of ads, but then people started using ad blockers, so the services responded by adding more ads, leading more people to use more ad blockers. I don't think most people who use ad blockers understand that the ads are literally the price you pay for the service. If you think your time is worth more than the ad length, work for an hour and pay the subscription. I know it sounds crazy when I put it this way, but there's no such thing as free internet video.