Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month - eviltoast

This is just a reminder, if you think some subscription from a gigacorp is a good deal. It even might be, for a while. Then the price will go up and up once people get used to the idea.

It’s one of the problems of subscription services in general.

Yes, I know. Raising prices is and has always been a normal part of life. The thing is, the more services are subscription-based, the more these price hikes can be bothersome.

If the cost of toilet paper goes up more than you find comfortable, you can at least to try to budget it better and use less of it. Maybe you can stockpile it or borrow some. If it were a subscription toilet paper, you either have it or don’t have it. Or maybe you’ll get paper that prints ads onto your…

I’m getting silly. You get my point. Subscriptions can make sense, but also be a major trap.

    • Blake [he/him]@feddit.uk
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      1 year ago

      Edit: I’m really sorry I just noticed that you posted this MONTHS ago. I’m an idiot

      A lot of people watch videos on their phones, and ad-blocking is a lot more of a pain there. The official YouTube app is pretty much the only app on iOS that I know of and no ad-blocker works for that, I don’t think - though a good ad-blocker and Safari works quite well to watch YouTube on iPhone.

      No real options on Apple TV though, that I know of.

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        1 year ago

        uyou+extra is a custom youtube app for ios, so ios users can use that. It isn’t on the app store so you gotta sideload it via developer mode and a signing app.