The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing $2 to $13.99 per month in the US. YouTube has yet to...

Oof I think this service is only worth it if you have a family plan and everyone helping. That is how I personally make it reasonable in terms of pricing.

    • nefarious@kbin.social
      253·
      2 years ago

      It means the creators I enjoy actually get paid, whereas with adblock they don’t get any ad revenue.

      • Kyrgizion@lemmy.world
        187·
        2 years ago

        The creators will see jack shit of that price increase. It’s all going into exec’s pockets. The smart ones all have Patreon or other ways of monetising their content anyway.

        • nefarious@kbin.social
          123·
          2 years ago

          Sorry, I don’t see what this has to do with my comment? I was answering the question “What is the point of Youtube Premium anyway?” and said nothing about the price increase.

    • CaptainAniki@lemmy.flight-crew.orgEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      I’ve had premium for so long now that I forget youtube has ads and when my friends try and play anything I am shocked at how shitty the experience is.

    • Nythos@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      2 years ago

      Block ads without having to use an AdBlocker, but like who doesn’t use an AdBlocker these days

      On mobile it allows you to continue playing videos when you close the app

      And a recent addition they’ve added to it for mobile is the ability to fucking queue videos

      • Chozo@kbin.social
        15·
        2 years ago

        but like who doesn’t use an AdBlocker these days

        Hard to do from a game console or Chromecast, which happen to be the two methods I use most often for watching YouTube.

        • NightOwl@lemmy.one
          3·
          2 years ago

          If you got an apple device safari is fantastic when it comes to just air playing YouTube videos without ads. Sponsorblock extension works too and skips them. No messing around with third party apps installs.

          Although, I’m not sure if consoles or chrome cast have airplay support.

      • NightOwl@lemmy.oneEnglish
        4·
        2 years ago

        Yeah, Adblocker is part of internet security. Just using a regular search engine these days can be risky with the sponsored links that can lead to people going to the wrong site.

    • Steinsprut@szmer.infoEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      No ads on devices where you can’t block ads (like WebOS or Tizen TVs), and cba to circumvent it with newpipe on android stick or something

      Also youtube music for some people I guess