Youtube increases Family Plan price by 56%

I'm surprised more people aren't using uBlock Origin. It's an absolute necessity for browsing the web anymore.

When I can set that up for my AppleTV to block ads on YouTube, I’ll be happy to use it.
I barely ever use PC for browsing web anymore.
- It's available for mobile as well. You find it in the extension manager
- I honestly think it' seven more important to have an adblock on a phone.
  
  The amount of pages that on mobile are an advert covering the top half, and a give us your data prompt at the bottom seems to be nearly everything these days. At least on a monitor there's room for the content.
- Firefox on android supports addons, so you can install uBlock on it too. If you use an apple device, you are limited to DNS based ad blocking, which doesn't help with youtube.
- I really like YouTube Revanced on Android, it's a patcher that includes an ad blocker as well as a ton of other QOL fixes.
  
  But I understand why more people don't fuck with it, because if you install it wrong, your app will bug in the weirdest ways. Like my YouTube app kept getting renamed with the content of my last error message.
- Same, but when I sit and do stuff in my laptop I end up procrastinating even more with it than my phone... Anyway, I block ads everywhere I can, and when I cannot, usually I have a pihole running in the background for that in my local network.

I have YouTube Premium though not the Family variant and Google won't just fix their app. It is way behind NewPipe or YouTube ReVanced. No, I don't need shorts. No I don't need constant nudges to join groups of YouTubers by paying after I just paid you money, Google!

What I want is system wide quality setting (what exactly does High or Data Saver mean; would it kill you to give 480p, 720p or 1080p as options) or Sponserblock integration (okay, this thing is probably never gonna happen but still). YouTube 's app is a stinking pile of shit. I just use YouTube Music from them and will cancel/not renew my plan after it lapses.

Not a premium user but Youtube has poisoned its own waters with its algorithm. You can see the "top" content basically gaming that algorithm as well as it can. Literally every part of it from the title to the thumbnail to the content itself is hollow except for the skinner box.
- they don't call it engagement slop for no reason.
It's funny, because sponsorblock and vanced only exist because of youtube's greed. And now I can't imagine using their service without them, even if they rollback the annoying ads. And they can't implement them. It's really the problem they made for themselves.
unpopular opinion: you can pay for premium and use Vanced/ReVanced because you value hosting infrastructure provided, and you understand that most of your money goes to the creators not google. And yet you still want control over the UI.

And you know what. If everyone actually did that instead of using Vanced for adblocking, it maybe still would've been alive.
- No it wouldn't. They would have killed it anyway.
  Also, way to blame the victims for getting abused.
  "If only mommy would stop making daddy mad, then he would stop hitting mommy."

It's so nice to live in the EU, where my right to block ads is protected by law.

It's more so that you are allowed to try to block ads. If YouTube adds DRM or otherwise manages to stop usage of ad blocking, they are completely in their right to do so.

IIRC if something runs on your system, you have the right to mess with it, however you want — e.g. block specific parts of the site, or use reader mode etc.
- If youtube does that, I will stop using the site and wait for a workaround to be written. You could preload the videos and cut out the ads, for example.

Wait, people pay for that?

As I said in a previous post, people are afraid of pirating, so they prefer higher prices if it is a "safe" method.
- I wouldn't call it pirating... More like... I receive the video, but the ads were unfortunately lost on the way....
- People need education.
- Or people actually earn enough not to give two flying fucks about 10$ a month and want to support their content creators and the platform that enables them.
- Why are they "afraid"?
I pay for that, because YouTube and YouTube Music is the main source of media for me And my family and I have no issue with paying for a service that I use a lot. And paying for that is so much easier then investing huge amounts of time into searching for and maintaining alternative Players and Tools for all the different devices where I (and my family) consume YouTube and YouTube Music. My limited time is more valuable for me then the price for the service.
- I can understand if you want to pay. But don't say it's hard to block ads when all you need is uBlock origin installed... And that's it. It's literally a 15 seconds job for the rest of the life of your browser.
- I pay for yt family premium and Netflix but use neither of them on a regular basis.
  
  My nephews grew up with a pretty shitty life. They don't have a lot of fun things they can do in their situation. I figured the least I could do is give them YouTube music and some access to watch TV and movies on Netflix wherever they happen to be.
  
  It's the same reason my steam family is chock full of games I'll never play.
- This is the same for me and my family. It's such a great feature to have and worth not seeing ads. I feel like supporting the platforms I use is important to me.
A LOT of people pay for that. I was flabbergasted as well. Why would you pay for a free service? This feels like buying premium bottled tap water and they don't even bother to filter out the chlorine and the heavy metals.
- People buy diet water, so i don't think there is a limit to what people buy
- Why would you pay for a free service?
  
  If it were a charity or non-profit that would be one thing. Google is doing fine without your support though.
- because it is not a free service, you are watching ads.
  
  I may accept it if it was not bundled with data mining. and if they wouldn't constantly increase prices
- Do you pay for Lemmy? Did you donate something? Or do you think you don't need to, because it's free?
- It started out incredibly cheap ($15 mo for six people), and includes a Spotify style music streaming service
I pay for YouTube premium because I like the idea of content creators getting paid when I watch their videos. I don't want to manually send each of them money or sign up for their channel memberships or anything. But if they make videos that I watch and they get a kickback? I'm fine with that.

I also have a YouTube channel that bring in a bit of beer money, so I use that to justify the cost.
- I pay for YouTube premium because I like the idea
  
  Yup. Pretty much. 🤷🏼‍♂️

It's like the cost of one banana

There is always money in the banana stand.
- audible mouth clicking

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I personally would read this as a sign that more people are turning to ad blocking or straight up leaving. Not enough money coming in so they have to jack prices up way faster than they'd likely do otherwise.
- But then that would mean that they'll loose even more customers
They'll have to be taught a hard lesson. But realistically family was overly generous with a lot of folks essentially paying 2$/m for premium. You can definitely double this amount without many of them bothering to pirate.
The ones who stay will stay.
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- Do they get to stay in the tautology club?

To be fair, this does add more to the pot for YouTube creators.

If you're a YouTube Premium member, you won't see ads, so we share your monthly membership fee with creators. Best of all, the more videos you watch from your favorite creators, the more money they make.

I'd rather just spend a fraction of the money on a Nebula subscription.
- Then delete the YouTube app and go to the nebula. It's a free country.
So this has been true of YouTube Red since the beginning. It's one if the reasons I got it. But they use watch time as the way to divide your money out. It actually makes it extremely unfair split for people that make great but short content. It's also why longer content became more popular around that time and those 24/7 streams run like that.

Also why creators started doing channels of just padded run time content of like building legos and eating things. It's to secure better and funding.

The current setup is pretty busted and feels like the wheels are coming off again.
YouTube has a transparent 70/30 revenue share model for creators.

Your entire premium subscription fee is split into 70 to creators and 30 to google.

The 70 are forwarded to the creators in proportion to the watch time.

in fact it's incorrect that "the more you watch, the more they earn". You can only watch two videos in one month and each of the creators will earn the respective 4$
I mostly watch shitposts on YouTube anyway so Adblocker would do just fine
There are very very few youtubers I world like to support.

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Well, once again they still hurt more the "legal" clients, nothing new really.

I still happily have my ad-less YT experience in all the devices I own (as a matter of fact, I just convinced my girlfriend to sideload a YT client to get her a similar experience of mine in her iPhone).

Yo HO!

And of course this happened inline with the ads on pause so its either you pay us a fuck ton of money per month or suffer from advertisements thank god for ublock origin and firefox

Didn't even know Youtube premium was still a thing. Been too busy using FreeTube, NewPipe, and SmartTube to notice

Worst and worst...

uBlock, Revanced, and yt-dlp still 100% free lol

Content creators need to consider looking into alternative platforms though. Seems like YouTube is hellbent on self destruction.

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