So this is some bollocks. Guess I'll be cancelling our plan since it's only used by two of us.
Current price $17.99/month, new price $32.99/month.
If they boiled the frog better I would probably have accepted a $5/month price rise, and then another later... But close to doubling in one go is a no from me dawg.
Thank you for being a loyal member throughout our journey. We created YouTube Premium so that you could enjoy all the videos and music you love without interruptions.
To continue delivering great service and features, we are increasing the YouTube Premium family plan price to A$32.99/month. We don't make these decisions lightly, and this update will allow us to continue to improve YouTube Premium and support the creators and artists you watch on YouTube. This is the first ever price increase for your subscription.
Links to cancellation etc: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/12400348?sjid=6028684095030617608-AP
I'm all for paying for value but what are you getting? Especially if you're watching on a computer.
I mean, 6+ hours of video a day without ads, while actually supporting the creators I watch. I watch enough people I can't afford to give them all money on patreon or buy merch. I have youtube running like 50% of the time I'm home and awake, and after a decade of using ad block (because honestly, fuck ads), I figured it was about time I started paying for it.
There is an amount that I'll think is too much and I'll go back to my old ways, but I have a minimum wage job in a country where that means something so the fqct I'm now paying $17 a month instead of whatever it was before, like 13 I think, I'm not too bothered.
I also don't pay for other subscriptions because what youtube has is just better. Like cool, Netflix has movies and shit, but similar exists on youtube and a lot of creators make better content for me than most of what's on Netflix.