It looks like the yearly plan went up $20 as well. Of course, the yearly plan doesn’t auto-renew for whatever reason, so at least people can’t forget and unknowingly get a higher charge.
I’ll have to debate between now and October when my Premium service runs out if I want to renew. I tried to go without it last time and made it all of 18 hours before giving in and signing back up.
I’m still rather frustrated that YouTube Music is bundled. I pay for Apple Music and hate YouTube Music a lot. The Lite membership feels like a non-starter, because it not only cuts access to YouTube Music (which is fine), it doesn’t serve up music related content on YouTube ad free. It seems like a flip of a coin whether or not a music related video is categorized as “music” or not. I often watch these videos sitting in the living room, as I would any other video, and it’s not a replacement for a music service or used in the same way at all.
With the influx of AI content across the internet as a whole, I’ve found myself reading more. Maybe this trend will continue and I can simply discontinue use of YouTube.
YouTube is rapidly approaching the point at which I'll go back to other means to watch YouTube to avoid paying this ridiculous price. I refuse to watch ads and I'm willing to pay but $16/mo for ~4-8hrs of content that I watch at most is absurd.
I need to look more into their Lite plan since I don't care about music on YouTube at all but I worry they will start slide (more/some?) ads into that over time.
Yes, I know about ad blockers and the like, it's just really sucky for things like Apple TV or iOS. Maybe AdGuard/PiHole/etc can block these ads, I've avoided that in the past just because I've run into odd/annoying routing/dns issues due to those things but maybe it's time for another look.
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[ 2.0 ms ] story [ 32.8 ms ] threadI’ll have to debate between now and October when my Premium service runs out if I want to renew. I tried to go without it last time and made it all of 18 hours before giving in and signing back up.
I’m still rather frustrated that YouTube Music is bundled. I pay for Apple Music and hate YouTube Music a lot. The Lite membership feels like a non-starter, because it not only cuts access to YouTube Music (which is fine), it doesn’t serve up music related content on YouTube ad free. It seems like a flip of a coin whether or not a music related video is categorized as “music” or not. I often watch these videos sitting in the living room, as I would any other video, and it’s not a replacement for a music service or used in the same way at all.
With the influx of AI content across the internet as a whole, I’ve found myself reading more. Maybe this trend will continue and I can simply discontinue use of YouTube.
My previous blocker was that there was no (easy) way to bypass ads when I was using an AppleTV, so I just started using the Android side of my TV.
Even so, if and when Google decides to not honor that contract anymore, I'd still happily pay for YT Premium.
I need to look more into their Lite plan since I don't care about music on YouTube at all but I worry they will start slide (more/some?) ads into that over time.
Yes, I know about ad blockers and the like, it's just really sucky for things like Apple TV or iOS. Maybe AdGuard/PiHole/etc can block these ads, I've avoided that in the past just because I've run into odd/annoying routing/dns issues due to those things but maybe it's time for another look.