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Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month (9to5google.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 33 points 3 years ago (3 children)

I really wish they'd drop the YouTube Music aspect of this and just do an ad-free YouTube sub. Happy to pay content creators for their work; less happy to give Google money for a music platform after what they did to Google Music.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I'm the opposite. I'm still grandfathered into the $7.99 Google Music sub, which turned into YT Music + YT premium. The cheapest music service with basically free YT premium is nice

    I wouldn't pay more though

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You should verify you're still at that rate, looks like other people started getting warnings a while ago that it's going up.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    It's probably improved a lot since the early days. I remember it being significantly worse than the Google Music it was replacing.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I like YouTube music though? I refuse to give Spotify money because of Joe Rogan, and if you're a classical music lover YT is just better.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's cool. I'm not saying they should only offer it without YT music, just that they should offer an alternative way of supporting YouTubers without buying a service you don't need.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Yeah that I do agree with. I don't have Premium so I guess I don't know what that looks like.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago*

    Switched over from Spotify after they went too hard on Joe Rogan, so I never used Google Music. I like YouTube music. That said, they’ve just started adding podcasts - really hope they don’t go the way of Spotify.

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