Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month (9to5google.com)

submitted 11 months ago by WhoRoger@lemmy.world to c/fucksubscriptions@lemmy.world

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This is just a reminder, if you think some subscription from a gigacorp is a good deal. It even might be, for a while. Then the price will go up and up once people get used to the idea.

It's one of the problems of subscription services in general.

Yes, I know. Raising prices is and has always been a normal part of life. The thing is, the more services are subscription-based, the more these price hikes can be bothersome.

If the cost of toilet paper goes up more than you find comfortable, you can at least to try to budget it better and use less of it. Maybe you can stockpile it or borrow some. If it were a subscription toilet paper, you either have it or don't have it. Or maybe you'll get paper that prints ads onto your...

I'm getting silly. You get my point. Subscriptions can make sense, but also be a major trap.

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[-] yoshisaur@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

uyou+extra is a custom youtube app for ios, so ios users can use that. It isn’t on the app store so you gotta sideload it via developer mode and a signing app.

[-] Blake@feddit.uk 2 points 9 months ago

Awesome, thank you for sharing! I'm going to look into this. Really appreciate it! <3

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