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‘I want to cancel’: YouTube Premium quietly hikes its US prices for the first time in three years, forcing many users to consider the unthinkable (www.techradar.com)
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[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago

For me the unthinkable is giving my hard earned money to a multi billion dollar corporation

[–] eestileib@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 3 months ago

Loool, I think about cancelling stuff all the time.

Hell I think I'll go cancel something right now.

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.org 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

"For the first time in three years" is a weird way to phrase regular price increases.

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 10 points 3 months ago

THE UNTHINKABLE! Not paying for trumping trumpy service or goods. We should pay for things no matter how bad they are of course.

[–] haulyard@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Also check out what they’re doing if you happened to pay through Apple….

[–] diablexical@sh.itjust.works 10 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Thats because apple adds 30% if you buy through the ios app.

[–] Rooster326@programming.dev 9 points 3 months ago

30%

Every. Single. Month. F O R E V E R.

For providing absolutely nothing

[–] testaccount789@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah, it's... interesting. Especially with donations.
Apple takes a 30% cut, then Google does so as well from the remainder.

Feeling generous? Congrats, more than a half goes to corporations.

[–] Saprophyte@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

Why doesn't Google just pay it and absorb the cost like shippers do with tariffs?

/s

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Cancelation unthinkable? Maybe to the posters. Otherwise I can't see any reason to dread canceling

[–] MashedTech@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

I always wanted to get back into books. It's actually really helpful that they're doing this. I'm still pretty bad at self control.

[–] usernameunnecessary@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 months ago

Yeah if you have to compare a service with Netflix, and Netflix comes out as the better value proposition, the other service is doing something really wrong.

[–] rants_unnecessarily@piefed.social 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Is this a good moment to post a link to revanced?

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[–] bitwolf@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Where did all those price tiers come from?

I remember YT red, which became premium, and included both music and Youtube.

TIL there is a Music Premium that just gives you music.... But YouTube Music is just YouTube with a fancy frontend.

And the price hikes, wow, I signed up for 7.99/mo and remmebe it becoming 9.99/mo. I completely missed the 13.99/mo price hike.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the reminder, just canceled my 2-month free trial with a few days to spare.

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago

Adblock has been my wingman for years!

[–] BiomedOtaku@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

YouTube revanced 👌👌

[–] fallaciousBasis@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You might want to check out Morphe.

I think the days of Revanced are numbered....

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