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The price of an individual YouTube Premium subscription is increasing by $2 to $13.99 per month in the US for new and current customers.

This price increase is live for new subscribers as seen on youtube.com/premium. Instead of $11.99, YouTube Premium now costs $13.99/month. Meanwhile, it’s $18.99 if you’re subscribing from the iOS YouTube app.

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[-] MeowyNinhaj@lemmy.blahaj.zone 17 points 1 year ago

Is there really anything you would benefit from with premium? Its sooo easy to find other content for free elsewhere and use YT ad free is basically one-click on a normal computer.

[-] Osayidan@social.vmdk.ca 8 points 1 year ago

I've yet to be made aware of any benefits at all. None of what you get from premium is either interesting or relevant.

[-] tlf@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

Depends on how much you pay for data. For my german mobile contract it is very nice to have content available offline. And the play in the background thing is very nice depending on the kind of video you wanna watch. I can see how those features aren't the new sliced bread but they have their use cases

[-] Osayidan@social.vmdk.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Those features make sense for people who mostly use mobile, however the price increases make it a lot less appealing even then. At some point people will realize they are paying more to play a video in the background or without ads than for netflix/disney or whatever people like these days.

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