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YouTube Premium just got more expensive again: now $16 a month, or $27 for families
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this post was submitted on 07 Jun 2026
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... people pay for youtube?
... you know you can just block the ads, right?
... and you don't need a propietary app to get youtube on a tv?
Problem for me is that YouTube is my main source of video entertainment. I like being a part of the reason creators can get paid.
Sure I hate giving google money, but if everyone does adblock and no one donates to creators, then there will be no quality content.
Many creators i watch probably has a patreon or similar, but I watch so many different ones that yeah, yt premium is the easiest way for me to support while being ad free.
YouTube is also my main source of video entertainment.
I am very poor, but if I wanted to help fund Youtubers, I would just donate to their patreons or ko-fis or directly purchase a channel membership to them specifically.
You being lazy about how you support creatives you like is a choice, a choice that indicates your laziness is more valuable to you than you not giving Google money, so please don't lie to me when you say you hate giving Google money, you obviously don't.
Donating to what is ostensibly dozens of creators patrons would be not only a great deal of money but also kind of untenable to manage. If an adequate amount of YouTube subscription money goes to creators then there’s nothing really wrong with that. I wouldn’t say it’s lazy at all.
No, it wouldn't, just ask them to offer lower donation amounts/tiers, if the existing tiers are too high.
This really would not be much harder than managing an RSS feed.
If an adequate amount of money goes to doing the math to divide what would be donations equally, after Google's cut of course... then you are being lazy, and are fine with giving Google money.
Would you give to a charity that had the same 'admin overhead' to 'actual money put to use' ratio as Google takes in their cut?
Oh yes just reach out and ask your dozens of subscriptions to modify their subscription tiers just for you, I’m sure you’ll easily be able to reach them as one of their thousands/hundreds of thousands/millions of subscribers.
lol. lmao even.
YouTubers are not a charity. They’re businesses using the YouTube platform for the convenience it provides them despite the overhead. I’m fully justified in utilizing the same platform to support them financially for the same reason.
Ok so you're fine with paying money to Google.
Got it, you willingly fund an immoral corporation that's on many different boycott lists of many different organizations, for many different reasons.
Sure, ok then.
I on the other hand value my moral nonhypocrisy more than you do.
Guess we just have different preferences.
No I just think you’re just an insufferable dork with a frankly privileged amount of free time on their hands to fuck about with what amounts to little more than internet virtue signaling.
I find no value in your hollow moral grandstanding at all and I don’t think anyone else here does either.
I think it’d be better for your health to value touching grass over this nonsense you’re talking about.