I always wanted to get back into books. It's actually really helpful that they're doing this. I'm still pretty bad at self control.
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How do you think the unthinkable? With an ithberg.
Where did all those price tiers come from?
I remember YT red, which became premium, and included both music and Youtube.
TIL there is a Music Premium that just gives you music.... But YouTube Music is just YouTube with a fancy frontend.
And the price hikes, wow, I signed up for 7.99/mo and remember it becoming 9.99/mo. I completely missed the 13.99/mo price hike.
Cancelation unthinkable? Maybe to the posters. Otherwise I can't see any reason to dread canceling
Morphe to the rescue.
I I received the email today telling me that they were going to raise the price of my family plan by $4 per month. I'm guessing that their costs have not increased in any way, and probably have decreased. I assume it's just another squeeze tactic from the company that used to not be evil.
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Also check out what they’re doing if you happened to pay through Apple….
Makes sense. Never pay through Apple if there's any other option. Can't fault Google for that.
But even then, $16 per month for Youtube!? An adblocker is cheaper.
Thats because apple adds 30% if you buy through the ios app.
Why doesn't Google just pay it and absorb the cost like shippers do with tariffs?
/s
Yeah, it's... interesting. Especially with donations.
Apple takes a 30% cut, then Google does so as well from the remainder.
Feeling generous? Congrats, more than a half goes to corporations.
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This article is hilarious.
First off - "Trust among users is waning". Dude, it's been waning and most people didn't trust YouTube Premium in the first place because of years of having watched on YouTube with as little to no advertisements. It was glorious. The fuck are you on about?
Second, the second paragraph in, author is citing Reddit as the source of information. This is to imply that we can't see price hikes a mile away? When, even if we didn't, we know services like Netflix has been doing it for a while now and YouTube Premium had a price hike before. But now we need Reddit users to know anything? Fucking lol.
This is a case where just having the headline would've been good for us.
Maybe because im a millennial but it's easier than ever to have all the music you could ever want downloaded and playing off local storage, idk i don't get it i guess it sucks listening to some online playlist and every few songs one is just stuff you'd never choose to listen to.
Funny, I'm a Gen X - and I have everything locally stored and with over 400 gb of music commercial free. -I could just put the whole thing on shuffle for the next few years. Still sometimes listen to ad supported Spotify tho as am used to radio.
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Now is the time for peertube to shine
Can someone in this thread tell me how to get an ad blocker on my tv?
https://github.com/yuliskov/SmartTube
If you're asking more generally there's pihole but YouTube delivers ads the same way as videos so it won't work for that.
I miss the days when companies would grandfather your price in, so price hikes only effected new users... Now days everyone pays.
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