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Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month (9to5google.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/android@lemdro.id
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Oof I think this service is only worth it if you have a family plan and everyone helping. That is how I personally make it reasonable in terms of pricing.

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[–] 10 points 3 years ago (19 children)

What is the point of Youtube Premium anyway?

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

    It means the creators I enjoy actually get paid, whereas with adblock they don't get any ad revenue.

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  • [–] 12 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    The creators will see jack shit of that price increase. It's all going into exec's pockets. The smart ones all have Patreon or other ways of monetising their content anyway.

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

    Sorry, I don't see what this has to do with my comment? I was answering the question "What is the point of Youtube Premium anyway?" and said nothing about the price increase.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)
    • No ads.
    • Background play.
    • Download videos
    • YouTube Music Premium included

    First one makes it worth it for me. Have you seen how many ads some videos have? It's insane. Not interested in watching 8+ minutes of ads in a 45 minute video.

    I know there are plugins, alternative apps, etc. to get the same stuff free, but I just prefer paying and never having to worry about any apps or plugins breaking. I just know it'll be a perfect experience every time.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago*

    At this point it's less about cost than it is about doing something against rampant collection of personal data no one should have any business looking at.

    I don't see any problem if people see value in that subscription and want to pay it. But the fact that you pay and they still siphon the same metric fuck ton of data to monetize for themselves really shouldn't be okay.

    Now, if they were transparent about this, asked the user for consent, who then agrees, then it's obviously fair game. But doing this any other way should never be acceptable.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    You may be surprised to hear that the revenue split on Premium is the same as the split on Ads: 55% of all Premium money goes directly to creators on a member viewership basis. Alphabet increasing the price of Premium does increase the money going to Youtube corporate, but the revenue structure is fundamentally designed so that creators also receive an equal raise.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Block ads without having to use an AdBlocker, but like who doesn’t use an AdBlocker these days

    On mobile it allows you to continue playing videos when you close the app

    And a recent addition they’ve added to it for mobile is the ability to fucking queue videos

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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    but like who doesn’t use an AdBlocker these days

    Hard to do from a game console or Chromecast, which happen to be the two methods I use most often for watching YouTube.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    If you got an apple device safari is fantastic when it comes to just air playing YouTube videos without ads. Sponsorblock extension works too and skips them. No messing around with third party apps installs.

    Although, I'm not sure if consoles or chrome cast have airplay support.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    If you use the older Chromecast dongle that doesn't have android TV and no remote (the circular ones) you should be able to use castblock to auto mute ads and automatically press the skip button as soon as it shows up. It also has sponsorblock support so it will auto skip sponsor segments too. You just have to run the program on the same network with flags specifying you want it to mute ads, skip ads, and give it the list of sponsorblock segment types to skip and it'll auto detect any Chromecasts and do it's auto skipping and muting magic

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

    No ads on devices where you can't block ads (like WebOS or Tizen TVs), and cba to circumvent it with newpipe on android stick or something

    Also youtube music for some people I guess

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