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YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.::Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (17 children)

Unpopular opinion: this is a good thing.

(Waits for down votes... )

This is healthy for the ecosystem, it makes it possible for other video platforms to compete, and be sustainable. Google providing the loss leader in video streaming makes it difficult for other platforms to exist, and sustain themselves, because they don't have Google's war chest.

So it's going to be a difficult transition, but now there is wiggle room for other platforms to exist. And with 1 gigabit, and 10 gigabit home internet connections becoming more common globally, we have options for more interesting gorilla distributed video streaming.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

10Gb to the home? Where have you seen this, and.for how much? I had no idea that was a thing for residential

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

64.75 Swiss Franks per month from my ISP, it's the same price as their 1 Gb/s and 25 Gb/s plans.

I'm currently still on 1Gb/s because buying the faster router, switch and network cards to make use of more is kind of expensive

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