YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.::Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.

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[–] 40 points 2 years ago (20 children)

Yeah, no.. it's already overpriced.

Paramount + £6.99 Netflix £10.99 (standard) Youtube £12

Makes no sense.. they don't have anything like the production overheads. Stuff like Star Trek and Stranger Things are expensive. '10 greatest cat videos' is not.

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

    Heck, they don't even pay a good fraction of their bandwidth because they put caching box in your ISP location to reduce loads. This is a huge privilege as ISPs won't let any random companies run equipments for free in their network, which is one of a huge barrier for any YouTube competitors.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    They might be allowing them to run the boxes for free, but the ISPs are saving money on bandwidth, too.

    Get enough users for the ISP to care and they'll work with you. Otherwise, you probably don't have all that many users to begin with, so the overhead that maintaining and distributing these boxes would create wouldn't be worth it anyway.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    It "makes sense" in that, unlike those two, YT has to deal with thousands of hours of video being uploaded to their servers every minute. What they don't pay in streaming rights, they pay in storage and bandwidth costs, plus a couple of peanuts for "moderation", which is probably more expensive in the long run

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

    you forgot to add spotify which is about 12$

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

    YouTube Music is included with YouTube Premium though so no need for Spotify if you have YTP.

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

    Depends on how much you use it. I watch Youtube pretty much every day for at least an hour, while using Netflix or other streaming services about once evey few months. I use Spotify every day too, just because I like their app more in some ways.

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

    Well it also includes a streaming music service which are normally $10/m on their own.

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

    They should offer it seperately.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (2 children)

    IIRC, YouTube Music is also offered as a standalone service, Atleast in some countries. However, the difference b/w YouTube Premium and just the Music service comes out to be miniscule, so folks just pay for the former.

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

    No, I want Premium without Music. It's not offered anywhere.

    Same thing with Amazon. I want Prime without Prime Video. It's not offered either.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    Oh, I understand now, especially the second one. The only thing from Amazon's product line worth using to me is the Prime delivery service. I can't give two hoots about their Prime Music( which I lost respect for after it denied to run for me on any browser on Linux for some reason) or Prime Video.

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  • [–] -5 points 2 years ago* (3 children)

    I can't see the value in using youtube for music.. it's not like I can watch music videos in my car. That's worth $0 to me, and I imagine the majority. Spotify is better.. or apple music if you're on the fruit side.

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