YouTube Premium Price Increase
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- YouTube does not produce its own content, nor does it pay licensing fees.
- a premium account is for a single user only, no ‘who is watching’ profiles, meaning you need a subscription for each individual.
- there is still an insane amount of ads in videos.
- you get a bundled music subscription, or can choose to pay less but then it has arbitrary playback restrictions.
- even the lite tier is at least or more expensive than other mainstream streaming services (besides Netflix), which don’t have the same drawbacks.
- I vastly prefer an ad-free experience, and I'm willing to pay for it.
- I don't care for popular TV shows or movies. The content I want is only available on YouTube.
- I use the Premium-only ability to run the app in background on my phone every day.
- 55% of the monthly fee is shared with the content creators whose monetized videos I watch, so this helps support creators that I enjoy (not as much as direct donations, but it's not nothing either).
Probably a good time to switch to an annual plan: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/11417260?hl=en#zip...
There are entire superfreighters anchored off the Port of Los Angeles and in the Strait of Malacca, loaded to the max with containers of pixels that should be on your screen. Factories have suspended shifts and laid off workers because there's nowhere for new pixels to go.
But money > more money so hey