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Comment by Ralfp | Hacker News Reader

$14 in Poland would be $3.22 VAT extra. 76 PLN according to current exchange rate.

For comparison:

    My mobile plan: 35 PLN
    Disney+: 29 PLN
    Amazon Prime: 11 PLN
    HBO MAX: 30 PLN
    Netflix 4k: 60 PLN
    Apple TV+: 35 PLN

Its even more than Netflix 4k, which here has reputation for costing too much.

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I wonder how much money they currently make, but it looks like they're going the YouTube/Reddit path where they expect the paid user to pay much more than the money they currently make from ads.

Edit: indeed they are[1]

I'm not sure why they're doing that but I suspect they don't really want people to move to the paid/ad-free plan so they charge a premium for that.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37752005

I suspect it would be like most other services that have a different price in each European country. I would guess the $value is a conversion for the article from one example country.

These sort of costs are easier to drop than they are to raise - they might want to see take-up at a higher price point and then drop it later.

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