People are addicted to free, but they should be paying for something that they spend so much time on.
But then again it is sad to see that people are actually willing to pay for such kind of content.
But then again it is sad to see that people are actually willing to pay for such kind of content.
Now maybe they are giving me YouTube Music for free and the price would be the same without it - but it doesn't feel that way and it's enough to make me not subscribe. This kind of shenanigans is enough to drive me and probably many others away.
It's £12.99/month. Would I pay that if the bundling had never been offerered? It feels quite high - I've hit my limit of streaming services I'm prepared to pay for at the moment. I'd probably pay half that for ad-free YouTube.
Surprisingly (to me at least) I'm actually finding enough good content on TikTok to make up for the fact that I can't block ads on YouTube any more. Thus the great cycle of enshittification continues.
This is kind of a weird way to think about it. Regardless of what's packaged with it, it's either worth the money for your use or it's not.
> It's £12.99/month. ... I'd probably pay half that for ad-free YouTube.
That makes more sense. For me, it's worth it, but YouTube is my primary video entertainment source.
Yes - I fully admit that it's a weird way of thinking about it, but the psychology around pricing has a lot of this stuff. I genuinely don't know if I'm an outlier or not. Responses to pricing are rarely about rational cost/benefit analysis.
> That makes more sense. For me, it's worth it, but YouTube is my primary video entertainment source.
I have a limit to how much I'm prepared to pay for video serivces each month. If I add one, something else would have to go. So the issues with YT Premium are a mix of the bundling psychology, the indecision about giving up another service - and the competition with TikTok for (sometimes) similar content.
I cannot use local cards because of banking issues