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Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month (9to5google.com)
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[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I cannot imagine paying anything for YT Premium, let alone $14 lol.

[–] Thewheeeeeeeeeel@lemmy.world 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why? It gives the creators more money than watching ads and you get no ads on Smart TVs etc.

I mean yes you can watch youtube with vanced, Sponsorblock etc pretty much without ads everywhere, but because I hate ads and did that I like supporting the channels without having to manage a ton of little donations

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 months ago

I hate corpos, so I do what I can to not support them. The creators that I watch I donate directly to or purchase their merch/products. That supports them far more than the fractions of a cent that me watching ads or paying for a premium service gives them.

[–] duffman@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you watch a decent amount of youtube, remove ads is worth it imo. Maybe not $14 a month worth it, but I can't fucking stand ads.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ad block...Ad block...Ad block... It's like paying for porn... why would anybody ever do that?

[–] macintosh@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I do most of my watching on mobile and it’s not worth it to me to do the crazy workaround to not use the official app.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Firefox mobile, UBlock origin addon. Takes 30 seconds. Or Newpipe app on mobile.

[–] macintosh@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I don’t use an android.

[–] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Several options on iOS too.