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Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month (9to5google.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I have a YouTube Premium subscription

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It really boils down to a few reasons:

I don't like ads, and I prefer not to see them
Running a platform like YouTube is not cheap, and I understand that Google needs money to keep things running.
The revenue of Premium is split between YouTube and the creators, much like ad revenue is. So it also supports the channels that I follow.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You pay and you're still the product, they continue with all the tracking they do.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That hasn't stopped me from using other Google services like Gmail, Docs, or Drive either.

If I ever decide I want to opt out of Google's ecosystem I'll just serve them a GDPR data deletion request.
That's what I did when I deleted my Twitter account as well.

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