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YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads. (www.androidauthority.com)
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YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown | You either pay rightfully for the video content you consume, or you live with the ads.::Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.

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[–] BilboBargains@lemmy.world 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

*you pay YouTube for the content they didn't make or they turn the thumbscrews.

[–] Gladaed@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago

This is misleading : a substantial part is distributed to the content creators. Traditionally the YouTube cut is alleged to be rather low.

[–] coffeewithalex@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Because it costs nothing to run data centers, employ thousands of people, distribute exabytes of data.