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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Wait, what the FUCK!?!

This price increase is live for new subscribers as seen on youtube.com/premium. Instead of $11.99, YouTube Premium now costs $13.99/month. Meanwhile, it’s $18.99 if you’re subscribing from the iOS YouTube app.

I’ve been paying $4/month over market rate this whole time?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah. That's normal if you subscribe to things through (iOS or android) apps.

Google and apple don't allow apps you roll their own payment methods to "protect their users". Apps have to use the Google/Apple payment system where Google/Apple take a 30% cut of every payment.

With YouTube being owner by Google they probably don't have to pay those 30% on Android, but they have to on iOS.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah. When you put it that way, it’s totally understandable.

But now I’ve betrayed the fact that I’m willing to pay a lot for community driven content :D

Still switching around as soon as I’m back at my PC though

[–] fne8w2ah 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I’ve heard about it but didn’t realize someone like google would blatantly do this. SMH

On PC, I’ve never watched ads. Only bought premium after getting an iPhone 2 years ago.

Appreciate being able to support creators while not watching ads ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ , lot of good that did me.

[–] jwagner7813 3 points 1 year ago

Create a problem. Generate a paid for solution. ??? Profit!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/premium

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.