Grandfathered YouTube Premium users will see price increase in January

Yeah, I fell into the same situation. I had a YouTube Music family plan that they told me was no longer grandfathered in, so I also switched to Spotify and have been happy with it. In my case, though, I lucked out because I only needed to keep one other person on the plan with me, so I went with the duo plan instead of the family plan and ended up saving money in the end.

If Google wants me back they can offer ad-free YouTube for $2/mo and that'll be back as it was. That's really the only thing I still miss, because god knows the music player itself wasn't great.

What about ReVanced? Or ViMusic?

If you were in the beta. It's 7.99.

I've been paying 7.99 since day one of Google Play Music. They added YouTube Red (Premium) shortly after.

Why Spotify? They're the worst streaming platform with the lowest pay for artists.

You both got it right, but OP got it wrong. They're not grandfathered if they're getting the price increase, and they are.

They may be confusing it with the family plan? Which is $23 for up to 5 people, which imo is a pretty good deal if you know 4 other people to go in on it.

I’ll upvote you back up.

I’m the same way. I use YT on my AppleTV, and I’m an adult with money so $14 isn’t that bad. That’s basically one double quarter pounder meal these days.

Do I want to see the price increase? Of course not. But I’m not going to lose any sleep over it.

I'll pay YouTube when they stop ducking over content creators with DMCA laziness and terrible royalties for music streams. A service that's worth it is one thing, but that service essentially exploiting it's employees who have no other viable alternative is bad. I'd rather pay my content creators directly through merch, Patreon, etc...

Even DNS blocking wouldn't work. DNS blocking only works if they serve ads via a different name server than they serve their content from (like content from videos.youtube.com and ads from ads.youtube.com). If they give you both ads and youtube content from the same domain, then your DNS blocker can't selective block the ads. So DNS blocking doesn't work on YouTube, and plenty of other streaming ad-containing streaming service.

Get Nebula, you boot licking clown

per month

I'd be worried they'd figure it out and ban your account.

$23 for a family account. Which is cheaper than the single user ($11.50 a person if you were to have two people, $4.60 if you used all 5 accounts).

I mean, they're still not wrong. Same thing happened with Reddit, curbing my use of it made me think twice about what I was really using it for and it turns out it wasn't that much that was really necessary. It made me reach a better more healthy balance of how I use these sites (Lemmy too).

grayjay is better, it simultaniously blocks ads and chips away at the youtube monopoly on independent content creators

NewPipe is freer. GrayJay is proprietary.

The article mentions 7.99 prices specifically.

I signed up day one, then when they added the family plan I moved to that day one. They started charging me full price earlier this year. Looks like they are resetting everyone's price unfortunately.

Nope. I was one of those and I too received that email.

Or just ReVanced.

I have Nebula but it kinda sucks. Content is too narrow and too US focussed. I really want a YouTube alternative but until they start to let more creators on the platform, not sure this is it.

Thanks for this, it made me go back and read through a second time. Just to explain my confusion, the article states that the price went up from $9.99 to $13.99 earlier this year, however, users that were subscribed through Google Play Music or YouTube Red were able to keep getting the old price for a little while longer. Then the article mentions "$9.99 – or even $7.99 – grandfathered users will now pay $13.99/month for YouTube Premium starting in January."

Somehow, my brain interpreted this all to mean that there was a $7.99 to $9.99 increase in July. I think maybe I was thinking that because it's odd to have an article about an old price increase. But really, the article is about the end of the grandfather period for Play Music and YouTube Red subscribers. All other users already had the price increase.

I thought Pi-hole didn’t work on YouTube? Or has that changed?

Nextdns was $22/year and worked very well for me for 3 years. I maintain my own now, but for many people it's perfectly fine to pay for a working service, not everyone wants or needs to fine tune their DNS like some. Just because it's free doesn't mean it's better and vice versa.

Never found a free one that works as well at blocking ads and trackers.

I do like having recommendations though. Newpipe gives me the super normie feed and I'm just not that interested in the latest KSI vs Logan Paul.

There isn't an official pre build app. The one you get might be fine, but you can't be sure...

It’s the most expensive major service. I couldn’t stomach it at even $20.

Up to 6 users as it is a family plan but ya it's pricey

I actually have grayjay on my phone (and paid for it). I don't mind paying for stuff I use.

I've also used revances, and smarttube tv. But as I said right now the value is still "ok" but reaching it's limit for sure.

Mobile:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/android/addon/ublock-origin/

Not even close to the experience.

Mobile Android

True for monetized account of course but, speaking personally, I mostly watch/listen to non monetized channels. New pipe is a great experience.

I pay 7.99, so it's going to $14?

A year? A decade? Surely not a fucking month...

thats like 2 whole real dollars

Or maybe they are sharing the family plan with 2 other people and rounding up. Or they have a different plan. Or they live in a country with different prices and converting to usd. Or a handful of other reasons that doesn't involve conspiracy theories.

Five dollars' increase. FFS

Yeah, could very well be. But corporations gonna corporate. If you don't like the product, don't buy it.