Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month - eviltoast
  • Dave@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I really wish they’d drop the YouTube Music aspect of this and just do an ad-free YouTube sub. Happy to pay content creators for their work; less happy to give Google money for a music platform after what they did to Google Music.

    • Saneless@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m the opposite. I’m still grandfathered into the $7.99 Google Music sub, which turned into YT Music + YT premium. The cheapest music service with basically free YT premium is nice

      I wouldn’t pay more though

      • Concetta@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        1 year ago

        You should verify you’re still at that rate, looks like other people started getting warnings a while ago that it’s going up.

      • Dave@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        It’s probably improved a lot since the early days. I remember it being significantly worse than the Google Music it was replacing.

        • Saneless@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          It still is in parts. Still takes a few extra taps/screens to get to playlists

          They are least stopped the practice of just starting a song when you went into a playlist.

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I like YouTube music though? I refuse to give Spotify money because of Joe Rogan, and if you’re a classical music lover YT is just better.

      • Dave@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        That’s cool. I’m not saying they should only offer it without YT music, just that they should offer an alternative way of supporting YouTubers without buying a service you don’t need.

          • Dave@lemmy.world
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            1 year ago

            They actually did a trial of such a sub in various Scandinavian countries, cost about five quid a month or so, which is entirely reasonable. Sadly, it doesn’t seem to have gone anywhere.

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      1 year ago

      Switched over from Spotify after they went too hard on Joe Rogan, so I never used Google Music. I like YouTube music. That said, they’ve just started adding podcasts - really hope they don’t go the way of Spotify.