I'd like an option to pay a reduced price for YouTube premium, that gave me like 6 hours a month for $3 or something. I don't use it enough to pay full price
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You could do a family plan and then split it 6 ways. It’ll come out to like $4 a month.
Yeah, smart. Somehow that never works out in practice. Buncha deadbeats lol
If everyone paid for premium i bet YouTube would fund a justification to serve wind up serving ads anyway. Grrrr
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Never realized you were such a negative doomer
Was just winding myself up thinking how things like hbo put ads back in and created a new higher tier for no ads lol. I hate ads
Yeah except the difference is that hbo doesn’t have an option without a membership like YouTube does
You guys pay for youtube premium? 👀
I don't. I only infrequently use it on my phone mostly. You got a solution for us??
Well, yes, naturally. 😂
Brave Browser blocks all youtube ads by default.
Brave on mobile instead of the ap? Not sure iPhone can handle that... anytime I've used it outside ap the experience blows, but maybe I'm being stubborn/boomer
I meant for Android. I have no idea how or if it works on ios. It uses very few resources compared to other browsers so I think it's worth a shot.
Downloaded. Will see. First issue is signing into YouTube now requiring a text message, and I don't have number I wanna give it.
Will try again later
Every time you close brave, it clears cookies so you’ll have to sign in every time. Just stop being lazy and ask your friend circle who wants YouTube premium for $4 a month. Then have them setup autopay 🤷♂️
Yeah no
Maybe...
I have friends that keep begging me to kick someone out of my family plan and add them to mine so they can get premium for cheap. It’s an infinitely better experience to never see ads.
Did the same with Spotify premium family plan
I'm very private and hate to worry about others somehow getting into MY account, but surely there are second level passwords for that...so really it's just inertia/laziness.
The experience isn’t as good as the app but it is ad free after you verify that you’re not a robot.
So many subscription models follow that journey lol.
Start with one price, then add tiers and you end up paying more for 'premium' or some nonsense that you used to get cheaper.
If it isn't tiers, it is more providers coming online offering similar, and everything gets spread between all providers, so you need to end up subscribing to them all to get everything you used to get with one. Video streaming is a prime example of that.
They're not doing it because it's evil. They are doing it because they are driven by profits and market demands. Money printing forces them to have to find new ways to remain profitable. Other businesses can't compete with them without charging a lot more. This is why netflix continues to raise their prices. It has become so expensive, that they are trying to offer different solutions like small ads.
Evil? 😂
That's the vibe I was getting from your comments haha
It is merely a well worn path that they will all follow.
As long as you recognise it, you can opt out.
Evil implies immoral intent to cause harm or pain. Whether it is immoral or not to start adding tiers to squeeze more out of you to prevent you slipping down the service tier you get, is up for debate.
I'd lean toward it errs on the side of greed although not to cause harm or pain. - a religious man might call greed immoral though?
I don’t think it’s greed. It’s inflation and they’re trying to not piss off their customers too much. It’s a consequence of central banking.
It's partly imo (guessing mostly) abusing captured network effect they have which is why it irks me. That plus ads are a bit annoying by design
Then try rumble and let me know if it’s a better experience
It doesn't have to be one or the other my dude. Sometimes the answer is 'both' lol.
I don’t think so because the price of goods fall to their marginal cost of production. If you raise prices too much, competitors can come in and steal away part of your business. The fact that no one else can come in and offer a similar and cheaper product says a lot.
You are talking theory. I am talking reality.
It's just facts dude. Facts don't care about the textbooks.
The textbooks will also tell you a producer is incentivised to make products that last.....Yet here we are..... Fridges that last a few years....
That’s not what textbooks say. When money printing is part of reality, businesses are incentivized to hide the inflation through various means like shrinkflation. That’s when they make the product smaller but keep the price the same. Consumers typically wont notice the change. Another thing that can happen is businesses will reduce the quality of the good. This is what we see across the board in the US. Foods have fake and cheap ingredients now. This wasn’t always the case. A tub of ice cream used to cost $3 with real ingredients. They don’t use real milk when they make ice cream anymore and the tub of ice cream costs more than $3. The brands that use real milk to make ice cream cost nearly $10 for small container of ice cream now. It’s not because of greed. The quality of clothing is also much worse. Appliances don’t last as long as they used to. You can still get the stuff that does last but they are a lot more expensive. These are the consequences of money printing. You can still get a fridge that lasts 10+ years but you probably can’t afford it.
So Netflix has a platform that is rammed with crap, with one or two titles, and the others have the same model, but with different titles, and that is because of the inflation in milk?
Is that the story?
I promise you dude, they all know most people do not switch, and they know how you think as a consumer better than you do yourself.
They also know if they don't really compete, but rather share the space, then there is room for them all.
There is a 100yr old lightbulb out there still running, ( but nobody can make them now apparently ) and my nan used to have a freezer that lasted from before I was born, until she downsized and got rid of it - get this - for a freezer that lasted about 4 yrs 😂
