Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month

I’m in the UK and it’s already too expensive imo.

Would be great if I could just pay for no ads YT without YT music.

In fairness, the amount of YT that I watch on TV/iPhone makes it worth the cost, but any increases and I’ll probably just cancel and watch less YT, which isn’t a bad thing.

Or maybe just look at getting one of those Turkish subscriptions for like £2/month

Wow! It was hardly worth it to begin with.

I can somewhat understand Hulu and Netflix raising prices because of video content licensing but Youtube Premium? Fucking stupid as hell.

Youtube Vanced on my devices, Piped on my computers. gg saved you 13.99 a month

Gripping tight onto my initial grandfathered price from Google play music. $8

Objectively, Youtube Premium is the one streaming service that I actually use... with youtube dlp because actually I can't stand the interface at all anymore; but even so, I use it and I feel ok about paying for it.

Nebula has a lot of the better YT content and costs much less than that.

I've been sailing the last few years so far out, I can't see the land anymore. And kinda don't care about land anymore...

What is the point of Youtube Premium anyway?

Phones, tablets; Revanced Extended

Android TV; Smarttubenext

I use smartTube ony my TV (with sponsorblock integrated), LibreTube and newPipe on my phone (no ads, and download included), and YouTube + adguard, sponsorblock, unhook, dislike button extensions on my Desktoo. With all that effort, i do not need paying for Youtube premium.

youtube-dlp is the solution!

Huh? The ad revenue it replaces can't be more than $1/month.

The annual subscription, which was introduced in January of 2022, goes to $139.99 in a $20 increase.

I literally renewed just two days ago, right under the wire!

Definitely wasn't worth it before and now they want to increase prices? Yikes. Guess I'll keep using revanced forever then

I use it too rarely to justify paying monthly. Now I thought about it, if it were only like 4,99. That's still 60 bucks a year, which is a lot for all the in-video ads you see anyways. But triple that, hell nah.

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I used to have this bundled with Youtube Music. The Youtube Music app was possibly the worst Android app I have ever used, slow, unstable, buggy and flaky as all hell. Ditched it for Deezer which has a terrific if slightly disorganised catalogue and a far better app

They are also raising it for student plans. I got an email saying my student rate is going to $7.99 starting in September

Reminder to just get a family membership and split with friends, a very good value tbh

Yeah sure

Am I the only one who isn't completely outraged by 50 cents per day?

It's not bad with pixel pass.

Does anyone actually use that crap to begin with?

"YouTube Vanced" on my phone (Pixel 7 Pro) and then use "Smart Tube Next" on my Sony Bravia Android TV, I'd happily pay for just Ad-free YouTube but I refuse to pay for YouTube music bundled into it.

This shit should be included with YouTube premium