I really wish PeerTube would take off, or any other alternative.

"YouTube said the hike will “allow us to continue to improve Premium and support the creators and artists you watch on YouTube.”

Bullshit, bullshit and more bullshit. They say that every single time they raise the prices. It's the same dogshit excuse.

My days of not giving YouTube money have certainly come to a middle

Smarttubenext on nvidia shield

Revanced youtube on android phones

Ublockorigin on browsers

No more ads.

Do people really pay for this?

As much as I hate this, yt premium is probably one of my most used services of anything streaming. I suck at lot of bytes down from them so I guess at least I might be getting what I pay for?

I sometimes feel bad for bypassing all this, then I see the in video sponsors they all have. So now I run Sponsorblock...

Keep paying guys, someones gotta do it. Thank you for your service. Keeps YouTube available for the rest of us who will never, ever pay a greedy, evil fucking company like Google.

Newpipe user for many years. Started to donate some small amount on a regular base. Totally worth it, still way cheaper than YT Premium and money doesn't go to big tech.

It will never be enough. Line must go up.

The only way to stop price increase is unsubscribing, Google need to know it's a loss, not a win.

Paid for Premium for ten years. Then, moved to a family plan since my brother offered and my wife had moved in with me; it saved me a little money and got her Premium. Then they did the thing they're all doing where they said "you don't live in the same house so you're not a family" and I said, "there's no way in fucking hell this household is paying $25+ for fucking YouTube, a thing we watch too much of anyway because it's algorithmically mind-fucking us everyday," and then we just let it lapse. We've got SmarTube on the Android TV for the occasional ad-free video, and it's clunky enough that we don't get sucked in, and I've got uBlockOrigin on my browser because obviously, and they've gone from getting some money out of me to never getting a penny again.

It wasn't really worth it before, now it's even less worth it?

Revanced works perfectly fine on Android and on desktop I use an adblocker.

Currently I‘m sharing a premium family subscription with as many users as Google allows which is like 6€ for each user.

If Google ever cracks down on sharing or this gets much more expensive (because even 6€ is too much IMO) we’re probably just gonna cancel the subscription altogether.

We just had news about Bilibili going global, and their reaction is to increase prices even further?

Well i still pay for it for two reasons- no ads and music. I use YouTube music as the music service since it has more artista from my country as for example spotify. And ads free since I and my family love watching each specific videos and are subscribed to different creators. I could switch to Spotify for music but then getting all devices, mostly our tv with chrome cast a solid app that somehow blocks ads without any issues… I would do that. And what about the iOS devices? I don’t want alternative stores on my iOS infected devices just to get an alternative app running. Then again, I don’t want to have pihole being my single point of failure on the complete home network. But the pi hole thing is completely different story (and out if scope).

Consider these open-source front-ends:

• FreeTube (Desktop)
• FreeTube (Mobile)
• LibreTube (Mobile)

No ads, no tracking, very customizable. You can import subscriptions, but signing in isn't supported except in FreeTube Mobile. Also these apps sometimes don't work for a few days whenever YT changes its back-end.

Just gonna drop this off here:

https://morphe.software/

Holy shit $16 / mo?? Did I see that right?? Wow. Just last year my partner and I really considered getting premium cuz we have some YouTubers we've been watching for like a decade. But ultimately decided against it cuz it was like $8.99 / mo.

I used to pay for this. Started a long time ago, when YouTube's content was... well, better. But now they're pushing EVERYTHING towards "Shorts" and it's pure garbage. Not only does it NOT curate for the people watching it, like how many times do I have to say "not intereste", "don't show me this channel anymore," or just fucking report channels for their "algorithm" to get a clue. AI being spammed left and right, and they claim they can't do shit about it, meanwhile, you whistle 3 seconds of a Nintendo song and your channel already has a strike against it.

The amount of content farms that's just pulling crap from reddit, putting dumb pointless videos behind it, while AI reads a made-up story. The amount of content where it's just some fucker who's just staring at the screen like a creepy fucker, meanwhile something from the MCU plays in the background... they're adding nothing. Or the pre-recorded "masked" heads (like Spider-Man, Iron Man, etc.) randomly gesturing at... fuck all.

People used to make things. YouTube had content. Not saying it was all great. Since TikTok got big, I feel like YT chasing after them things started to go downhill. And then "AI" comes out and the quality just fucking tanks.

I don't pay for YT Premium anymore. PiHole + AdBlock is used everywhere now. And if a YouTuber promotes anything, literally, fuck that product/company as well. Fucking scorch earth on all those fucking advertisers and the algorithm.

I had been paying for YouTube Premium for about six years because I fell for the trap when I bought my S9 at launch. (in fairness, I do spend an extreme amount of time a year watching YouTube so at the time it did make cost-effective sense) They gave two years of YouTube premium as a benefit of getting it then I never cancelled. I finally canceled about five or six months ago because the price I had been paying originally was close to $10 a month. I had over the years jumped up to almost 18 a month and a little while I had survived ongoing on a student discount. But when the student discount plan jumped to almost $12 a month, I said screw this, cancelled and installed grayjay and tizentube/tizentube cobalt.

Dang, I keep forgetting that suckers still pay for this...