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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[-] bobbyllama@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

zoot's suggestion is probably the simplest, but if you're feeling adventurous you could get a raspberry pi and setup a pi-hole server to intercept your internet traffic and redirect ad requests to a null domain

[-] wilberfan@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

When I first got the Roku, I had a "Oh, HELL NO!" moment when I saw that the Youtube app delivered fresh, sticky ads to my eyeballs--for which I have zero tolerance on all my devices.

A little research resulted, and I ordered a Pi 4. A couple of days later, after it was set up, I realized that PiHole (and later, AdGuard Home) would NOT filter out Youtube ads (although they work quite well for OTHER ad-filtering).

Shortly after that, Youtube offered me a free, 3-mo subscription, upon which I bit.

$11.99 felt steep to me, but I begrudgingly complied. At $13.99? That might be a deal-breaker.

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