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In the past I used to pay for Netflix, Spotify, and even YT Premium. However, they keep raising prices every year. In the past Netflix 4K cost like $22 and wi

In the past I used to pay for Netflix, Spotify, and even YT Premium. However, they keep raising prices every year. In the past Netflix 4K cost like $22 and with family sharing it was about $5 - totally acceptable. Now they cracked down on family sharing in different households and charge $37. No way. Spotify: they increased prices again last month to $20 USD for the individual subscription. I bought a 12 month Colombian gift card for $40 USD and activated via VPN. Should this stop working, I will unsubscribe entirely. YT Premium: it's at $23 per month now. Considering they aren't producing movies themselves, I consider that one the most egregious pricing out of all three. They can absolutely forget it - I am unwilling to pay any more than $10 for it.

bambax 11mo ago
I unsubscribed from Spotify six months ago and didn't look back. Navidrome works extremely well.
- sidrag22 11mo ago
  almost 4 years for me now, feels good to not feel like im having my music held hostage unless i pay them every month for the rest of my life.
yason 11mo ago
YouTube has the best content that you absolutely can't and won't find in commercial productions, and exactly because they aren't producing anything, they're just a platform. I think the sub-$10 premium without music was in the right price range but even at $20+ it proposes much, much more value than your random streaming service. However, what they're not clear about is how the Premium fees actually land on the YT channels which is an irksome point. Premium views generate more income than unpaid views, that much I know. But I don't know if my subscription fees will benefit only the channels I watch or whether I my subscription is helping the big, popular shows that I never watch.
- user34283 11mo ago
  45% of your subscription benefits Google as far as I know. I'm not willing to pay $20 a month for watching like an hour or two of mediocre homemade content Google did not even produce.
  - johnnyanmac 11mo ago
    As any other subscription, it depends on your habits. I can pretty much subsist on entertainment, educational, political, podcast, and simply fluff content on Youtube without any other streaming service (because damn, what's the last TV show I really was excited to watch? the new King of the Hill Season a year ago?). $15 for that is fine, for now. But I'm eagerly keeping an eye out on another ship to jump to.
- sidrag22 11mo ago
  I don't understand the youtube love i see all over this site. It's constantly something i see that people are okay with.. but i see so many things i dislike within it. It has a social media style layer on top of it to entice people to keep watching, as well as creators to keep creating horrifyingly misleading titles/thumbnails, it captured a massive user base without utilizing ads and then removed the training wheels and went full steam ahead on ads and added a paid model. they added shorts which is all the things i mentioned on steroids, and its owned by google. I'm a strong advocate for turning youtube into just a search bar, with some subscriptions on the side for creators you actually care for. Imo, if something gets through all the noise and finds its way to me, its maybe worth watching, if its their social media style layer suggesting it to me? its a low % chance its worth watching a minute of.
  - johnnyanmac 11mo ago
    >It's constantly something i see that people are okay with.. but i see so many things i dislike within it. Yes, welcome to a true blue monopoly. I can list issues for days, but at the end of the day a lot of beloved creators in pretty much all sectors can make a living off of Youtube and not much elsewhere. Maybe some can jump to Nebula, but not all have content that fit that service. It's those creators I love, not Google. I'd love nothing more than a proper competitor to rise up, or for courts to finally do their job and slice Youtube out of the Google ecosystem. But I'll be waiting a while for either. I've de-googled in pretty much every other aspect except Gmail and Youtube, and I simply don't see any other way out for now.

bambax 11mo ago

I unsubscribed from Spotify six months ago and didn't look back. Navidrome works extremely well.

sidrag22 11mo ago
almost 4 years for me now, feels good to not feel like im having my music held hostage unless i pay them every month for the rest of my life.

yason 11mo ago

YouTube has the best content that you absolutely can't and won't find in commercial productions, and exactly because they aren't producing anything, they're just a platform. I think the sub-$10 premium without music was in the right price range but even at $20+ it proposes much, much more value than your random streaming service. However, what they're not clear about is how the Premium fees actually land on the YT channels which is an irksome point. Premium views generate more income than unpaid views, that much I know. But I don't know if my subscription fees will benefit only the channels I watch or whether I my subscription is helping the big, popular shows that I never watch.

user34283 11mo ago
45% of your subscription benefits Google as far as I know. I'm not willing to pay $20 a month for watching like an hour or two of mediocre homemade content Google did not even produce.
- johnnyanmac 11mo ago
  As any other subscription, it depends on your habits. I can pretty much subsist on entertainment, educational, political, podcast, and simply fluff content on Youtube without any other streaming service (because damn, what's the last TV show I really was excited to watch? the new King of the Hill Season a year ago?). $15 for that is fine, for now. But I'm eagerly keeping an eye out on another ship to jump to.
sidrag22 11mo ago
I don't understand the youtube love i see all over this site. It's constantly something i see that people are okay with.. but i see so many things i dislike within it. It has a social media style layer on top of it to entice people to keep watching, as well as creators to keep creating horrifyingly misleading titles/thumbnails, it captured a massive user base without utilizing ads and then removed the training wheels and went full steam ahead on ads and added a paid model. they added shorts which is all the things i mentioned on steroids, and its owned by google. I'm a strong advocate for turning youtube into just a search bar, with some subscriptions on the side for creators you actually care for. Imo, if something gets through all the noise and finds its way to me, its maybe worth watching, if its their social media style layer suggesting it to me? its a low % chance its worth watching a minute of.
- johnnyanmac 11mo ago
  >It's constantly something i see that people are okay with.. but i see so many things i dislike within it. Yes, welcome to a true blue monopoly. I can list issues for days, but at the end of the day a lot of beloved creators in pretty much all sectors can make a living off of Youtube and not much elsewhere. Maybe some can jump to Nebula, but not all have content that fit that service. It's those creators I love, not Google. I'd love nothing more than a proper competitor to rise up, or for courts to finally do their job and slice Youtube out of the Google ecosystem. But I'll be waiting a while for either. I've de-googled in pretty much every other aspect except Gmail and Youtube, and I simply don't see any other way out for now.