Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January : technology

[-] aeronmelon@lemm.ee 250 points 10 months ago

That's not what Grandfathered means. Basically, original subscribers are being forced onto a new contract.

[-] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 61 points 10 months ago

Ya. I was originally a Google Play music subscriber which got turned into YouTube music, for $9.99usd. Now they're increasing the cost by like $4 after December. So I moved to the spotify family plan and now I share with my love ones for only a little bit more than the new YT price.

YT music was turning to sit though. It would always play music video audio with long ass shitty intros when the studio album music existed in their catalog. Even with the music video option turned to off.

[-] Stovetop@lemmy.world 27 points 10 months ago

Yeah, I fell into the same situation. I had a YouTube Music family plan that they told me was no longer grandfathered in, so I also switched to Spotify and have been happy with it. In my case, though, I lucked out because I only needed to keep one other person on the plan with me, so I went with the duo plan instead of the family plan and ended up saving money in the end.

If Google wants me back they can offer ad-free YouTube for $2/mo and that'll be back as it was. That's really the only thing I still miss, because god knows the music player itself wasn't great.

[-] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

Ya. This was my last straw. Figured I'd give them until the end of the original 9.99. So far the transition to Spotify has been good.

[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 8 points 10 months ago

If you were in the beta. It's 7.99.

I've been paying 7.99 since day one of Google Play Music. They added YouTube Red (Premium) shortly after.

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[-] NewNewAccount@lemmy.world 38 points 10 months ago

Grandfathered on the sense that the price increase was delayed compared to new subscribers. They were temporarily grandfathered in at their old rate.

[-] zerofk@lemm.ee 17 points 10 months ago

Thank you. I was thoroughly confused by this title and the article’s use of “grandfathered”.

[-] oo1@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago

Maybe It should say grandfathered you tube users are to be estranged.

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[-] umbrella@lemmy.ml 116 points 10 months ago

the ublock origin experience is cheaper

[+] normanwall@lemmy.world 89 points 10 months ago

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[-] FriendOfElphaba@sh.itjust.works 40 points 10 months ago

Back in the olden days, there used to be a variety of free software called postcard-ware. It was free to distribute and use, but if you wanted to you could send the author a postcard.

[-] kautau@lemmy.world 12 points 10 months ago

I think the reason so many new software projects have authors asking for donations is the barrier to writing software is now incredibly low. In the 90s you’d have to have a pretty nice PC, a good dial up plan, and writing software was much more of a hobby unless you were a pro. Nowadays internet access is ubiquitous, and with the tooling and wealth of resources available anyone can write good open source software. Often those people legitimately could use a donation to help fund their free time work. That and the open source projects that are just used as dependencies for corporate projects are all too common. I absolutely blame the system where people need more money to get by rather than thinking open source software devs are more greedy nowadays

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[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

Wtf really? I love ublock so much I was about to donate some money to it this year.

[-] QuarterSwede@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Send it to Wikipedia instead.

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[-] DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee 9 points 10 months ago

0.00! Cheap is cheap

[-] flamehenry@lemmy.world 61 points 10 months ago

YouTube have worked really hard this year to help people balance their media consumption with real life.

Everytime I am confronted with another irritating YouTube advert I close the App and say "Thanks YouTube. You are right, I didn't need to watch a detailed unboxing review for a product I neither want, nor need to know exists. I will do something in the real world and try you again in an hour"

I now find myself thinking twice before even opening the App.

Even better on my PC, because I use AdBlockers, YouTube doesn't even let me waste my time, even when I want to.

Truly, Do No Evil

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[-] reverendsteveii@lemm.ee 53 points 10 months ago

revanced is still $0/month

[-] histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 10 months ago

grayjay as well

[-] Adanisi@lemmy.zip 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

NewPipe is freer. GrayJay is proprietary.

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[-] Mojojojo1993@lemmy.world 51 points 10 months ago

Not grandfathered then is it.

[-] remer@lemmy.world 47 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I was grandfathered in at the announcement Google Play Music All Access price of $7.99. They better not raise it. They said during the announcement they would never raise the price for those that signed up then.

Edit: Class action anyone?

[-] automattable@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

I’m in this exact same boat. I also remember them saying they’d never raise the price on us. I imagine their defense will be something about how GPM doesn’t exist anymore and YouTube premium wasn’t part of that offer or something. It’s still bullshit but I can’t imagine we’ll win.

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[-] curiousaur@reddthat.com 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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[-] cm0002@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago

Your account might be exempted, because that's an old old deal, pretty sure "grandfathered" in this case are people who've signed up like the last couple years lmao

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[-] xarexyouxmadx@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago

For music:

https://www.f-droid.org/packages/it.vfsfitvnm.vimusic/

Or

https://www.f-droid.org/packages/com.anandnet.harmonymusic/

There's also alternatives for YouTube like newpipe & libretube etc

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[-] littlecolt@lemm.ee 37 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

This is disappointing. I was thinking of subscribing since I heard content creators got paid more per premium view, and $10 didn't seem like a bad price. ~~But if this is the second price hike in a single year, that definitely gives me pause.~~

This is not the second price increase in a year. This was a misunderstanding on my part. I'm still uncertain on the $14 price point.

[-] Landsharkgun@midwest.social 11 points 10 months ago

Youtube will never give their content producers a fair payout. Just get Nebula.

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[-] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 24 points 10 months ago

It's cheaper for me to just bump up my Adguard DNS subscription on my home router. Though I've only done limited testing to see how efficient it handles YT ads. (so far seems to work).

Honestly, the $3 CAD I spend on Adguard DNS through my router has been incredible. I'm flabbergasted when I connect to someone else's Wi-Fi and see what the Internet looks like outside my door walls.

[-] Contend6248@feddit.de 19 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Are you speaking about Adguard Home? That's free, if you're talking about their premium DNS, there are free alternatives with ad-blocking.

You can't block Youtube ads via DNS for quite some years now.

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[-] iamjackflack@lemm.ee 24 points 10 months ago

Welp time to cancel

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[-] Linkerbaan@lemmy.world 21 points 10 months ago

Revanced is a bit of a hassle to install but really worth it.

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[-] dmtalon@infosec.pub 19 points 10 months ago

Welcome to the club, I was on the $14.99 Family Premium from YT Red/GPM. I left in a fit to Spotify, but crawled back since I just do not get along with Spotify. It was quite an increase to $22.99, but I literally watch YT as my main source of entertainment, and listen to YT music via Android Auto in my car, as well as through the house all the time. So I am getting a lot of use out of it. but I am not sure I could stomach another increase anytime soon.

[-] Weslee@lemmy.world 19 points 10 months ago

Jesus $23?? No thank you! Spotify and FreeTube is good enough for me 😅

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[-] DarkThoughts@kbin.social 13 points 10 months ago

Desktop:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
https://freetubeapp.io/

Mobile:
https://github.com/revanced
https://newpipe.net/

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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[-] Nulubez@sh.itjust.works 17 points 10 months ago

It went from 10 to 20 on me. Considering all I lost (YT red premium content, google play music, etc) I just canceled then enabled a single user free account I get via Google fi. With money saved, bought family a spotify family plan

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[-] Pistcow@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago

Its complicated

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[-] disconnectikacio@lemmy.world 16 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Dont pay. -In browser: https://docs.invidious.io/instances/ ,OR adblock origin. -Androidon newpipe: https://newpipe.net/ -Android tv smarttube https://smarttubeapp.github.io/ ;)

[-] TheMadnessKing@lemdro.id 13 points 10 months ago

I think you meant uBlock Origin? Also, if you use Firefox on Android, it does support extensions so you can use uBlock Origin too.

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[-] iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

Just get a web browser that can ad block?

[-] blahsay@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

F I R E F O X

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[-] Yoz@lemmy.world 11 points 10 months ago

How much is it now and how much is the increase?

[-] samus12345@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

Grandfathered is $10 a month, new price is $14.

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[-] bitwolf@lemmy.one 11 points 10 months ago

Noooo.

Welp, time to go to Vanced now.

[-] nivellian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago

~~Vanced~~ Revanced (Extended)

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