The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing $2 to $13.99 per month in the US. YouTube has yet to...
  • Humanius@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    It really boils down to a few reasons:

    • I don’t like ads, and I prefer not to see them
    • Running a platform like YouTube is not cheap, and I understand that Google needs money to keep things running.
    • The revenue of Premium is split between YouTube and the creators, much like ad revenue is. So it also supports the channels that I follow.
      • Humanius@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        1 year ago

        That hasn’t stopped me from using other Google services like Gmail, Docs, or Drive either.

        If I ever decide I want to opt out of Google’s ecosystem I’ll just serve them a GDPR data deletion request.
        That’s what I did when I deleted my Twitter account as well.