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YouTube is axing its ad-free Premium Lite subscription plan - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Sibbo@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@beehaw.org

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I was happily using this for a year or so now. Feels fairer than using an ad blocker. But now they apparently want more money out of people. Feels like some sort of internet video apocalypse is happening, where the services become extremely fragmented and expensive, like YouTube, netflix, hbo, Hulu, Disney+ and whatnot. Each wants some 10-20€ out of your pocket.

I guess that means back to ad blockers and piracy...

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[–] FFF982@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But soon, existing Premium Lite subscribers will be left with two options: go back to watching YouTube with ads or subscribe to the pricier YouTube Premium that also includes YouTube Music.

There is a third option.

[–] geophysicist@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 year ago

With a bottle of rum

[–] Piers@beehaw.org 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

YouTube music pays artists slightly less badly than most services fwiw.

[–] upstream@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Still not a reason to give Google more power.