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YouTube Premium family plan price update ($17.99/month -> $32.99/month!) (aussie.zone)
submitted 1 year ago by trk@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone
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So this is some bollocks. Guess I'll be cancelling our plan since it's only used by two of us.

Current price $17.99/month, new price $32.99/month.

If they boiled the frog better I would probably have accepted a $5/month price rise, and then another later... But close to doubling in one go is a no from me dawg.

Thank you for being a loyal member throughout our journey. We created YouTube Premium so that you could enjoy all the videos and music you love without interruptions.‌

To continue delivering great service and features, we are increasing the YouTube Premium family plan price to A$32.99/month. We don't make these decisions lightly, and this update will allow us to continue to improve YouTube Premium and support the creators and artists you watch on YouTube. This is the first ever price increase for your subscription.

Links to cancellation etc: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12400348?sjid=6028684095030617608-AP

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Jesus, how do they justify that price?

They charge more than Netflix yet they don't even make any of their own content?

[–] ChronosWing@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's because you also get youtube music streaming included with it. If netflix had its own music streaming service bundled in their prices would be even higher than they are now.

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[–] SeatBeeSate@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Revanced project, smart YouTubeTV and/or Smart YouTubeNext, ublock origin, and xManager for Spotify.

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[–] Thermal_shocked@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Change your VPN to turkey, login via incognito, buy premium for $4 a month. Price was just under $3 before raise.

[–] root@aussie.zone 9 points 1 year ago

Enshittification of youtube is definitely progressing very rapidly.

[–] bestusername@aussie.zone 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Got the same bullshit email, total dick move by Google and I'll be cancelling. It's just pure greed.

I'm be exploring the ad blocking and/or VPN options.

Google need to separate YouTube and Music.

[–] Salvo@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

They want You to do everything Google. YouTube is the only thing that differentiates their All-in-One product from the competition. Everyone offers Music so VEVOs no value. Everything else Google offers for no monetary charge.

AppleOne includes music, storage and AppleTV+, as well as Fitness (that nobody uses, but nobody admits to not using).

Amazon Prime includes music, Audiobooks and Freight Discounts.

Xbox Gold offers games.

Netflix, HBO, etc, has no extra value except “original” and exclusive content.

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[–] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

imagine paying $204/yr instead of taking 20 seconds to download ublock

[–] SuperSpruce@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*$396/yr

[–] frogbellyratbone_@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

word yah. i was more making a stab at OP for even being cool with the prior 17.99/mo price

[–] cuppaconcrete@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google have just started blocking all ad blockers, hence being so cocky about jacking up the price now.

[–] Fluid@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

uBlock Origin gets around their efforts.

[–] StalinistApologist@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

how do i watch youtube without ads on a roku/chromecast? pihole? plex?

edit: i found https://github.com/iBicha/playlet so far. havent tried it

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I can't blame them. The fight to block adblockers is an expensive one, and they went all in on the fight. /s

Asshats.

E: adding the sarcasm mark, in case it wasn't obvious.

[–] Stumblinbear@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

For reference this is about $20 USD

[–] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

nearly double the price for the same thing! this after disney raised prices, max downgraded service and kept prices the same, and disney is about to finish buying out hulu in order to, I'm sure, raise prices. Yarr!

[–] unodostres@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

Wow

[–] Yerbouti@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm always amaze by the fact that all these streaming platform do is give you access to others content ( they dont create shit), but they get to keep 98.7% of the revenue, because.

[–] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In this industry the “means of production” = “hosting and distribution platform and servers”. If you’ve got no way of hosting your content and putting it in front of people, your content may as well not exist. In much the same way an actor needs a theatre.

So as per any capitalist industry, those that own the means of production (I.e. google with YouTube) exploit its workers (content creators) to generate profit in the same way a steel mill owner gets to keep the profits from his steel mill despite the fact that the owner never creates any steel ingots themselves.

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah people don't notice that the Internet used to be like going over to a friend's house who had the cool stuff which over time became niche shops.
Rules, regulations and restrictions, slowly put up more and more stops for simple small people to enter the space and left only large companies in it's place. Some of this by consumers own demand for more.

So here we are, the Internet just the next space for capitalism and having every last scrap of revenue squeezed from it while those with capital complain they need the next big invention to exploit as they run out of space and room to grow and things to consume. Each day pushing more towards their pockets and less towards the rest of us.

I just want small curators back. Small groups filling niches instead of massive "creators" who simply consume as much as possible to regurgitate it back at their audience.

[–] fosstulate@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

Most creators worth watching will be making their work available beyond Youtube, and if they aren't then it's worth contacting them.

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[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm curious what's driving this revenue rush at Alphabet. It almost feels like something internal, like they're trying to make it actually self sufficient based on cloud pricing.

[–] galoisghost@aussie.zone 2 points 1 year ago

It’s not just Alphabet it’s cloud based companies across the board and basically VC money is drying up because it can be secured on 0% interest loans anymore

[–] sphere_au@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

It's times like these when I'm glad I refused to even log into Google to view YouTube, let alone buy subscriptions. I also refuse to view downloading content (without logging in) that's freely available to be viewed as piracy.

These subscriptions are undoubtedly a rip-off. For those saying creators get a "cut", there's a reason why sites like Patreon exist. It's substantially better for creators if you subscribe to them directly that way and get your videos from Patreon. Same with Nebula etc. If I really had to pay then I'd do that (and do already for some stuff that was never on YouTube anyway).

You can get enough subs for the price of a YT premium to get plenty of content to watch, even if you don't want to subvert Google. So there's zero reason to throw money at them for this. None at all.

[–] retro@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

All prices seem to be going up around the board. I just got an email saying my Turkish Family Plan (via VPN) is increasing from TRY ₺59.99 to TRY ₺115.99. That's $3.29 to $6.36.

[–] pedroparamo@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I haven’t received the email but I guess I should expect that price hike. Thanks for the info

[–] yoz@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

People saying I'll cancel will not cancel. I've seen so many corp simps in the last few years that I lost faith in humanity

[–] librechad@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

We will own nothing, don't pay, sail the seas mate.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 1 points 1 year ago

Tendency of the Rate of Profit to Fall goes brrr

[–] No1@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Personally, I'm a fan of

For those who must have the official paid version, keep an eye on Ozbargain Youtube.

Free trials and/or VPN + subscribe overseas for a fraction of the price, eg Individual has been $2.34 a month via India, A$2.30 via Turkey

(this is before any potential price increases in those countries)

[–] Why9@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

$400 a year for YouTube premium.

I'd gladly pay that much for a robust ad blocker!

[–] Machinist3359@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

At this point, everyone should invest a fraction of that into automating youtube downloads. No ads, no buffering, and $200 will get you eniugh hard drive space for years.

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