I had been paying for YouTube Premium for about six years because I fell for the trap when I bought my S9 at launch. (in fairness, I do spend an extreme amount of time a year watching YouTube so at the time it did make cost-effective sense) They gave two years of YouTube premium as a benefit of getting it then I never cancelled. I finally canceled about five or six months ago because the price I had been paying originally was close to $10 a month. I had over the years jumped up to almost 18 a month and a little while I had survived ongoing on a student discount. But when the student discount plan jumped to almost $12 a month, I said screw this, cancelled and installed grayjay and tizentube/tizentube cobalt.
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If I'm understanding you, Google got ~ $500 out of you over the course of 4-ish years? Say it ain't so!
PEOPLE! Install Firefox, Waterfox, any *fox and install ublock origin on your mobile devices RIGHT NOW!! Is there some feature that you can't use in a mobile browser that these apps do and I'm just too old to understand?
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Does this also include YouTube music subscriptions?
I paid for premium until I started getting ads out of nowhere. YouTube changed their policy to include ads in my previously ad-free package.
I cancelled and started using smartTube f-droid. It has sponsor block integrated. Auto-skips all ads, not just the ones injected by YouTube.
My whole family uses my google account with a grandfathered $7.99 price from the GPM days lol. I'm fairly certain they lose money on us.
no, they aren't losing anything.
they don't take in as much
there is a huge different.
They make up what you think is a loss by harvesting your data.
Kind of unrelated but youtube adds new free movies all the time. Sometimes over 100 per day...other days 15. This site shows all newly added movies:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/provider/youtube-free/new/movies
... and people keep subscribing. Good argument for saying it is an addiction
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