People pay for YouTube premium?!?!
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2026
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For me it was debating what music service I wanted to pay for and I decided ad-free YouTube without having to usual anyone was a fine bonus. And it was a decent trade to my brother and cousin when I was in their HBO and Netflix families. But I'm not going to say it's "great" or anything. In fact if they ever cut my brother or cousin from my family plan (we've moved around the U.S. since I first got it,) I'm dropping it.
The only way to stop price increase is unsubscribing, Google need to know it's a loss, not a win.
I stopped paying when they started to openly support Israel. I’m fine with paying a service to maintain itself and Youtube is storing a LOT of high quality video, but giving away millions worth of support to a genocidal state is not something a streaming service’s operating costs should include sooooo fuck ‘em. Ads suck, but I can live with them.
Ads suck, but I can live with them.
I was fully onboard with everything you said until this. It pretty much defeats the point of a boycott to continue using the service in a way that makes them profit.
We just had news about Bilibili going global, and their reaction is to increase prices even further?
Holy shit $16 / mo?? Did I see that right?? Wow. Just last year my partner and I really considered getting premium cuz we have some YouTubers we've been watching for like a decade. But ultimately decided against it cuz it was like $8.99 / mo.
That sub is already alotted to Netflix, for the ads version too.
Time to quit, just unregistered
It wasn't really worth it before, now it's even less worth it?
Revanced works perfectly fine on Android and on desktop I use an adblocker.
YouTube morphed
This is the way
Does Adblock work for YouTube?
uBlock on Firefox
You don't even need Revanced. Just use Firefox on both.
I like Revanced. I can listen to stuff even while the screen is locked and have sponsor block and other addons if I want. I think half the time I spend on my phone is watching Youtube and it's heaps better than Firefox with an adblocker on Android.
I have yt premium and still use revanced. Sponsor block is so goated
LOL.
YouTube was actually my only subscription. Which I of course, canceled. When it was cheap enough, I didn’t wanna bother. I did invest some effort, but I’m not paying anything anymore.
Morphe.
Be a pirate
Then pay and get tracked
your using the internet you are getting tracked.
Well im pretty much confident it's not that much for me
if you have an active internet connection your data is being tracked.
Then don't
DO WHAT YOU WANT CAUSE A PIRATE IS FREE!
I'm free
YARR HARR Fiddle dee dee, being a pirate is alright to be!
Consider these open-source front-ends:
No ads, no tracking, very customizable. You can import subscriptions, but signing in isn't supported except in FreeTube Mobile. Also these apps sometimes don't work for a few days whenever YT changes its back-end.
Newpipe is another option
Newpipe and Grayjay are great options!
NewPipe is shite compared to Morphe.
At least its fully foss, doesnt requir an account, no microG shit, can downlload(actually download) videos, forks have sponsord block, doesnt take up 1.5GB,
New pipe says it's dipping out after the Google changes no?
Lets see what happens
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Keep paying guys, someones gotta do it. Thank you for your service. Keeps YouTube available for the rest of us who will never, ever pay a greedy, evil fucking company like Google.
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