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Youtube recently (as in last week) has been fuckin around with stuff to try and kill adblockers again, which means basically anyone using nonstandard browsers, VPNs, pihole/adguard dns, etc are having issues. Even some people who are using legit clients but just have an old oauth token (like phone users who logged in 2 years ago)
google will inconvenience 70% of their user base to kill adblockers (temporarily, bc I’ve already gotten ytplus working again without even needing a new build ha)
I actually used to pay for YouTube Premium for quite a while. It was $7/month and I split it with someone so it cost me $3/month to eliminate the very slightly annoying ads, which was well worth it.
Since then, they've taken a hard right turn down Shitty On Purpose Lane, I've long since stopped paying them, and after the most recent round of making the ads ten times worse a few months ago, I pretty much only use Librewolf unless I am for some reason watching it on my phone.
I feel like Google has completely forgotten the concept that made them the only successful search engine, all those ancient years ago. It's okay. The world doesn't mind teaching lessons again, in my experience.
I stopped paying the very second they looped in Google play music. I have zero need for a bundle, YouTube. Zero. Give me my cheap ad removal back for your already exorbitant rate. I know you're not making more than a quarter a month off of even the users watching every ad.
YTM has basically always been bundled with premium. They recently raised the prices for grandfathered users but at the time the YTM bundle was introduced the premium price did not increase IIrc.
It did increase the price, it went from 7.99 to 12.99 in my area with a brief "grandfather" period they were very quick to remove. It was also not called YouTube music at the time but Google play music. They also used to have a feature that allowed you to upload your own library of music for streaming along side their digital library which they removed with the switch to YouTube music. Very annoying because you could manually patch the holes in their licensing agreements, include local unknown bands in your library, and edits or mixes of songs you preferred. It was a dark time at the Google graveyard that hit me so hard I switched to iPhone.
Yes I know what Google play music was, I used it in HS...I also have had premium since it was launched as YT red. I don't recall the price ever being $8 though. It was $10 at launch and it's always included the music for that price. The hike to $14 had nothing to do with music. I'm in the US though so maybe regions are different? I had my $10 price for years after the price increase...only somewhat recently did they bump me to the new price.
I did some looking online and red launched alongside YTM for $10/mo in October 2015.
I'm in the US as well, Iowa. Youtube premium no ads was $7.99 at launch. Eventually they bundled in gpm and increased it to 12.99 at which point I canceled. This was just prior to the rollout of ytm. If they A/B tested my area I've no idea, but I'm not incorrect. I literally just checked my email receipt.
Well, I don't know then, this is super odd because here's the wayback for the launch of YT red and it says $10/mo with GPM included. The earlier pages archived all say "coming soon" and this time frame lines up with wikipedia's launch date as well as the prices listed on wikipedia. I really don't understand what's going on here then https://web.archive.org/web/20151031015519/youtube.com/red
EDIT: I just went and found my sign up confirmation from 8/1/2017 and the price was $10/mo and included YTM