youtube getting more aggressive… i’ve got firefox and ublock but this shit is still coming up

  • uncle@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honestly, if YouTube offered a $5 adfree video plan I’d pay for it. It’s not worth $14/month in my opinion

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      1 year ago

      That’s the YouTube Premium Lite plan that they killed off less than a month ago.

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      1 year ago

      Youtube would profit off of $2 a month the fact that they need to charge 14 is just greed

    • SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Fuck that shit. They’d just increase it gradually until it hit 80$. They also don’t care about the user experience playing shit ads that are some times horrific (like the recent Israel propaganda ads with war, or 1 hr + ads, or salacious ads). They also inject the ads at the worst possible spots. They should give creators that control but fuck them.

      Don’t give Youtube or Google that option. This is what they want. They are ruining the internet further.

    • regbin_@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      That’s way too expensive. I guess regional pricing did me good because here it costs an equivalent of $3.75 (RM 17.90). That much for Premium + Music ain’t no way I’m not taking it.

      Spotify costs $3.35 (RM 15.90).

    • danielfgom@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’d pay €1 a month. Max. If only 50 million people did the same, they’d make 50 million per month. Must be more than they make now from ads…

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      1 year ago

      I cancelled Spotify and use YouTube for music and videos now so it’s worth $14 to me. Just loaded all my Spotify playlists into YTM. Interface isn’t as good as other music apps, but it has a pretty insane catalog, especially for stuff like remixes and bootlegs

    • GreenM@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Not to mention, ads make so much less per user. And if you started to click on most of them they will demonetize the content creator for it.
      So those 14 bucks / per user is like the user was thousand people watching hundreds of videos roughly speaking.