Not enough people buying Premium, eh?

I'd try it if they finally offered us a one year subscription period here in europe. they don't. their loss 🤷‍♂️

Is that why I am getting about one ad for every 90 seconds of video ?

That actually makes more sense to me compared to most premium features. Higher quality directly costs more money to stream.

YouTube already randomly drops me to 360p on my big-ass broadband sometimes because it just feels like it. What are the guarantees YouTube Premium won't do that? ANSWER ME YOUTUBE, THIS IS CRUCIAL PRE-PURCHASE INFORMATION.

I pay for premium but would love to use peertube instead since it's decentralized. It would be great to have all the people I sub to upload there as well then I'd bail.

I paid for premium recently which helps a bit except now the problem is a lot of the content I watch ppl are doing sponsored segments which I get but at the same time fuck off.

As with most things in the modern world that have gone to shit. It is not the monetization scheme in of itself that is the issue. It is the never ending desire for more profit this quarter than last forever.

If it was acceptable to stop trying to make even more once the cost to operate is covered and some healthy profit is made predictably then a lot less people would have issues. And enshitification would slow down.

„I don’t want to watch ads and I want everything to be free.”

My brother in christ, this is not how services work.

I don't care that enhanced Bitrate is premium only. I do care that you still need to click "advanced resolution settings" to access this even for premium users on mobile.

They finally shut off my premium account in Argentina for $3 and now I’ve been blasted with ads so much it’s unbearable. Like 3 ads every 3 mins pretty much.

Maybe I can try again in another country but I’m pretty sure they’re wise to it and demand a card used be of the same country too.

It’s fine on my phone but on the tvs where I mostly consume it’s hell on earth!

God damn YouTube. Why do we like it so much.

I can do all of them already without premium.

uBlock Origin 🥳

The 1080p non-premium looks like shit, not better than 720p. I think they reduced the Bitrate a lot and premium restors the original Bitrate.

Don't assume Google et al. will ever consider enough people buy their subscription. There's never enough money for these people.

Google asking me for €13 a month? Their empire is built upon selling user data. Fuckers should be paying us.

13 per month. That's over 100 per year. Did not expect it to be that expensive.

I was happy to pay for youtube as a service until they broke the shit out of their algorithms and started shoving ads to my face in premium. Did a chargeback and got my money back. Fuck these monkeys.

yt-dlp and VLC still work. I'm good.

People can’t afford yet another monthly bill.

It’s like walking in Trador Joes for snacks. Oh, hey, this is only $3! And look, this is only $5! Get to checkout: $130 please.

Seriously, that’s how this nickel and dime subscription crap works.

The worst part is that this doesn't seem to be some sort of better quality. All of the other qualities seem to have tanked in the past year, so at best this just restores the previous 1080p bitrate.

wow, premium in the usa is expensive. it's a little under $3 per month here in india for the family plan and even that's after a recent 16% hike. the individual plan is even cheaper.

i guess these rates are in store for us as well in the future?

"Enhanced" bitrate? I've heard of high bitrates, and I've heard of low bit rates, but I ain't never heard of no enhanced bitrates. Does Google know something we don't, or do they think we're suckers? (Rhetorical question, don't answer.)

Friendly reminder: If you know how to use Docker, you can self host Invidious on your PC and have an experience better tgan YouTube for free.

I never noticed a quality difference on my phone due to the small screen, even 1080p to 720p wasn't bad on my 4k TV. Also, when did they change the free trial from three months to one?

I just lost my premium subscription after about 2 years of paying $3/month in Argentina. Here it's $24/month (family plan). YouTube is unbearable with all the ads. Sometimes a 10-minute video has 3 as breaks. I'm only using it for precise purposes now, not scrolling and exploring, and finding alternatives as much as possible.

Maybe it's more expensive in Europe, my premium is 7.99 usd