• Wilibus@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    $3/month really means nothing to me, considering I already $18.99/month for a YouTube music family plan.

    My issue is them purposely attempting to make my experience worse and then selling what they have arbitrarily taken away back to me.

    If you product is so valuable the only way a conpany can sell it is to attack your user’s experience so you pay them to stop it really starts drawing too many similarities to a mob protection racket.

    EDIT: In order to be fully transparent, apparently inflation made a fool of me, the YouTube premium family plan has increased to $22.99/month so the difference would be $4 per month, not $3.

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      1 year ago

      I use YouTube more than any streaming service and it was nice to get those perks. I am just waiting for the perks to be revoked and sold back to me one chunk at a time.

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        1 year ago

        What perks? I don’t understand what benefit exists other than blocking ads they no longer allow me to block.

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          1 year ago

          YouTube premium

          Offline and Background video play are the two main ones they tout. Which have also either been part of youtube previously or easily done for free by third party apps.

          • Wilibus@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            I’ve used offline browsing before, it definitely used to be a feature they offered.

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        1 year ago

        Just double checked this. Currently I am paying for a family plan which gives me 5 users and it costs $18.99 CAD. The family plan with 5 users is $22.99

        I believe this recently increased because I kinda ticked off when they launched Stadia and sent all the YT premium customers free Stadias that came with Chromecast Ultras and I recall feeling like an idiot for not having the right plan and Google not being willing to switch me over and give me the free hardware.