YouTube Premium
- Thread starter Nitefly
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Yeah, it randomly appeared last month with very little announcement.
Had a pop up in the app the other day, think you get about 15 hours of audiobook listening each month
Cool, thanks
So roughly about one novel then. Audible won't be shaking in their boots.Family doesn't charge on Google either. All my Google subs are shared with the entire family.
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Soldato
Gosh, that means my family sub is going up ARS1569 or...£3.64/month.
I'm shocked.
I'm shocked.
I'm curious as to what impact these price hikes have on those who live in the aforementioned countires.
It feel like every other week one of these countries gets a price hike.
Has there been any complaints from the locals? or is youtube using targeted pricing?
It feel like every other week one of these countries gets a price hike.
Has there been any complaints from the locals? or is youtube using targeted pricing?
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I bet those countries dont get hammered with ads for those who dont pay the sub.
Soldato
damn i am paying uk £19.99
not sure i can change to turkey now ?
not sure i can change to turkey now ?
Nope. Ukraine was the latest that was working a while ago, not checked recently but give it a try first.
Man of Honour
I get a different experience every time I go to YouTube now. Sometimes some videos will play if you have an adblocker, sometimes all of them will play, and today none of them will play.
I would love to pay YouTube for Premium, however it'll never happen until they resolve several gripes I have with the whole thing (which will never happen):
1. Bring back the dislike counter. This is standard Google telling you what you want and then asking you to pay for the privilege.
2. Stop changing the damn UI every 5 seconds. They rarely improve things and just make it annoying to keep up with the changes.
3. YouTube iPhone app is terrible at remembering settings such as resolution, playback speed etc. This means I have to set my preferences for almost every video.
4. iPhone app when you set to "High quality" basically uses one setting lower than maximum. This means for a 1080p video it selects 720p. Since when is 720p high quality? Why can't I just choose 1080p and it use that for everything!?
5. Can't customise how much of the video to buffer. This means when I'm on a train going in and out of signal it never has enough buffered to cover the dead zones. Yes you get offline playback, but I don't necessarily want to download a whole video on mobile data before watching.
6. £13 a month is too expensive. If it was £8 I'd be happy to pay.
7. They could make the service cheaper by binning off all the other random add ons that I don't want (YouTube music).
Basically the usefulness and ease of use of the service has gone downhill, they've decided to put up a paywall for what was previously a free service, and they shove Premium in your face 24/7.
By paying for YT Premium I'd be supporting all the above practises and behaviours, which I don't, so I won't.
1. Bring back the dislike counter. This is standard Google telling you what you want and then asking you to pay for the privilege.
2. Stop changing the damn UI every 5 seconds. They rarely improve things and just make it annoying to keep up with the changes.
3. YouTube iPhone app is terrible at remembering settings such as resolution, playback speed etc. This means I have to set my preferences for almost every video.
4. iPhone app when you set to "High quality" basically uses one setting lower than maximum. This means for a 1080p video it selects 720p. Since when is 720p high quality? Why can't I just choose 1080p and it use that for everything!?
5. Can't customise how much of the video to buffer. This means when I'm on a train going in and out of signal it never has enough buffered to cover the dead zones. Yes you get offline playback, but I don't necessarily want to download a whole video on mobile data before watching.
6. £13 a month is too expensive. If it was £8 I'd be happy to pay.
7. They could make the service cheaper by binning off all the other random add ons that I don't want (YouTube music).
Basically the usefulness and ease of use of the service has gone downhill, they've decided to put up a paywall for what was previously a free service, and they shove Premium in your face 24/7.
By paying for YT Premium I'd be supporting all the above practises and behaviours, which I don't, so I won't.
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Caporegime
Would you pay for it if it’s £2?
What? I literally said above if it was £8 I'd pay.
You're supporting it just by even watching YouTube. While the rest of us pay 2 quid or less and move on with life.
Not whilst I'm using an ad-blocker I'm not. I don't have much choice on my phone.
I shouldn't have to use VPNs and other tricks to pay for a service. If they charged a reasonable amount of money for it then everyone would buy it anyway.
Same as I used to have Netflix when it was less than a tenner. I started using it less and it got more expensive and more restrictive with sharing, so I cancelled as it wasn't providing value for money for me any more.
Caporegime
Then join us and pay £2 (actually £2.20) and sign up. The VPN trick is only a one time event, until the card expires.
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Wait till you try the app as a premium user. The YT iPhone app with premium is buggy. When it plays videos outside of the app, sometimes the video feed will freeze though audio will continue. There also a bug where a blank playlist would come up at the bottom, below the video in portrait mode, were you would usually see recommendations or comments. The only way to fix this is to fully close the app. Those are the ones that have plagued me so far.
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I've seen people say that on the iPhone app they get messages popping up saying "not available in your area" and/or signs them out. I'd only need it for iPhone as my TV uses SmartTube, as it's way better than YouTube and doesn't have ads.