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YouTube Premium is getting a huge price hike in over a dozen countries, sparking user backlash. Some countries are experiencing hikes between 30% and 50% (mas.to)

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YouTube Premium users across the globe are facing significant price hikes as Google increases subscription costs in over a dozen countries. This follows earlier price jumps in various regions, including the United States last summer. The latest increases vary by region, with some countries experiencing hikes between 30% to 50%. For instance, in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy, the Family plan will rise from €18 to €26 starting November, while the individual plan will increase by €2 to €14.

Countries affected by these changes include Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, UAE, Switzerland, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Colombia, Thailand, Singapore, Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic, and Denmark. Although most Reddit reports are from European users, the price hikes also impact the Middle East, Colombia, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia. YouTube had already raised its subscription prices in India by 15–20% in late August.

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[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 20 points 2 months ago

Backblaze as well. Can’t believe they let me store 20TB of backups for $10/mo.

[-] Merlin404@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

By there site its more like $120 a month?

[-] deranger@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Just do the cheap unlimited personal plan and hook up a shit load of external HDDs to your PC. I have a system where my NAS syncs to my PC which syncs to Backblaze so I can sorta hack my way into unlimited NAS backup for $10/mo.

3-2-1 backup where the primary source of data is the NAS, on site backup is desktop PC external HDDs, off site backup is Backblaze.

[-] gregor@gregtech.eu 2 points 2 months ago

That's an insanely good deal! I should move pict-rs to backblaze on my Lemmy server

[-] kratoz29@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

So, only cheap services are worth it?

Are there some expensive services that are worth it? not just that they increase their price just because.

Don't get me wrong, I want more examples (and I am a happy subscriber of Real-Debrid for years already).

[-] gregor@gregtech.eu 2 points 2 months ago

As I have said previously, Hetzner is most definetly worth it and it can be expensive. I can't think of any more examples tho 😅

[-] Engywuck@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Well, I use what I need. I'm not going to pay an expensive service just because. For instance, I wouldn't pay for Proton. It'd be quite useless (and expensive) for my use case. I do have a paid Zoho email account, tho.

[-] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago

Out of curiosity, what do you do with all that storage? Can't imagine I'd ever need that much personally

[-] gregor@gregtech.eu 1 points 1 month ago

Object storage is indeed insanely cheap

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