YouTube Premium users across the globe are facing significant price hikes as Google increases subscription costs in over a dozen countries. This follows earlier price jumps in various regions, including the United States last summer. The latest increases vary by region, with some countries experiencing hikes between 30% to 50%. For instance, in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy, the Family plan will rise from €18 to €26 starting November, while the individual plan will increase by €2 to €14.
Countries affected by these changes include Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, UAE, Switzerland, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Colombia, Thailand, Singapore, Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic, and Denmark. Although most Reddit reports are from European users, the price hikes also impact the Middle East, Colombia, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia. YouTube had already raised its subscription prices in India by 15–20% in late August.
lol and they’ll raise prices again next year. and people will complain for a minute, then renew their sub
when is this going to stop being news?
Exactly. “Sparking backlash” just means these people whined for 2 minutes like they always do, before reaching into their wallet once again.
I hadn’t realized how high it was until seeing this and canceled mine.
maybe its time people redirect their money to supporting peertube
Funny, I still pay them my same flat fee of nada
If history is any indication, they will complain and no significant number of them will cancel.
The AdBlockalypse.
I’ve been paying for YouTube premium and have been watching a ton of YouTube for years. But I’ve been finding myself watching less and less YouTube lately and this might be the push to finally cancel and back away some from the platform.
You gotta make up for a lack of innovation but just price gouging customers on absolutely everything. I only have Spotify because of the radio function but otherwise all of these services are absolute dog shit. They don’t offer anything new. They’ve just created a new set of moats for features, songs, videos, television and games. Eventually this system has to collapse because treating customers like employees that have no choice but to stay will lead people to innovate on piracy.
I would love a solution for Samsung TVs, it’s the only reason I pay for Premium.
Same, but nvidia shield. I’ve tried pihole and pf-blocker with no success.
Revanced manager for the rescue. Fuck Google.
Probably the ones that do subscribe are much less price sensitive.
hey… Mister youtube. … We are not americans, just poor europeans ! 😭
Africans: ?
- Firefox + uBO
- NewPipe/LibrePipe/GrayJay
- FreeTube
They all are free, no subscription required
And sorry Apple users, I don’t know what option you have cuz I don’t use Apple.
iOS/iPadOS: Safari + AdGuard (+ Vinegar (optional))
macOS: Safari + AdGuard or Firefox + uBO or FreeTube
I switched from FF to librewolf. Less convenient, more privacy, no pesky G**gle partnerships, afaict.
iOS user here, uYou++ is quite good, but only a mod for the regular YT app, not a complete alternative.
I use to use tubular, but it stopped working and I’m not computer savy enough to fix it. Can anyone offer some assistance please? It gets the infinite loading icon and then gives me an error
Freetube doesn’t seem to work anymore (for me at least) as Google went hard on blocking all invidious instances and proxies…
Working fine on librewolf so far.
Change your API backend to LocalAPI in the settings. It still works that way on Freetube and Libretube
How do you do that?
Works fine for me
Only up to 50%? I would much appreciate 100%. That would make users rethink their subscription.
Paying for service? Why those savages!
just cancel all subscriptions. None of them are worth it
Bitwarden is worth it. (Yes, I know, I should self host it. I do, but I still see it as a good deal.) Also Hetzner is a good subscription. So yes, some are worth it
Agreed:
-Bitwarden
-Storage Share
-ControlD
-Real debrid
Backblaze as well. Can’t believe they let me store 20TB of backups for $10/mo.
