YouTube Premium thread SEE OP

dodzy

Leave well enough alone. If ye could afford the 30c per week, surely an extra 80c ain’t gonna be the straw…..

antimatterx

I feel we'll get fully blocked one day, but enjoy the cheap prices while they last.

bromley52

I'm glad I stayed with India.

Jofspring

If you are an Argentinan it's some hike for them in fairness. Quadrupling the price for them.

AB7

Think it’s across the board not just Arg;

Turkey - we will be increasing your Premium family plan price from TRY 25.99/month to TRY 59.99/month.

TheDriver

There's a lot of discontent across the net, US going up 5 dollars. It'll make people sit up and say no thanks.

This might backfire on youtube.

It's owned by google. It doesn't create any content. And its now getting into netflix pricing?

feargantae

Feckers are doubling the student Turkish price from 55c to about €1.10.

With most videos bloated to death with sponsorships YTPremium is barely worth more than a few euro at best.

I hope this backfires on Google badly.

sosq

But be honest...when did you watch YT without premium...it is impossible. I tried once and don't want to do it again . So many ads

😂. It is still worth a fiver to pay to be ad free.

suave.4u

still better value that taking up YT Premium here. EUR 12, Rip off IRL

Jofspring

Isn't the family one here more like €17?

Ohmeha

Article below with info on large price increases just about everywhere. What the hell are google up to? Even Netflix is now barely that much more expensive

https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-premium-subscribers-canada-massive-surprise-price-hike/

atahuapla

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119772722#Comment_119772722

They 100% know this is the case. I’d wager it’s one of the main reasons for a 290% price increase: places like Argentina and Turkey will show hugely inflated subscriber numbers compared to peer countries. They’ll have the tech to determine domestic devices vs VPN devices and the skew is obviously large enough to absorb any cancellations from this hike.

I’m gonna suck it up too. Having used Premium for 2yrs, I inadvertently opened a YT link on an incognito browser recently and the product with ads was flat out unusable.

Del007

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119773253#Comment_119773253

how you getting it as a student?

2lazytogetup

I got hit on arg price. Though the arg peso has collapsed in value over last few years so it just brings it back to 2018 prices.

Thought it funny the email from YouTube on price hike was in English and not Spanish. They know what we are doing.

Wonder if the artists get less from an arg subscriber than a eu one.

Happy to pay the 5 euro month for family plan. They don't even check if we are in same household as I've never shared a wifi with people I let use.

Sleeper12

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119772728#Comment_119772728

It's a staggering percentage of an increase.

I think I will keep the family plan. I do watch 30 minutes of YouTube before bed most nights. I love the no adds. I am Afib & my heart can race very easily. A year ago I made changes in my life to cut down on stress. I spend most of my working driving. I no longer use the radio & particularly talk / current affairs radio. I use Youtube music all the time. I have a play list of 5000 songs on shuffle. Very rarely hear the same song twice.

Mr E

I got the email this morning. I thought wow, that's some increase.

Then I realised that it's still under a fiver. Totally worth it.

Secret Seven

€2.60 for my Argentina account. I'll stick with it. Still good value compared to Ireland. Don't want to screw things up for the sake of a few bob. Feel sorry for the genuine Argentines though, that's a hefty price hike for them.

Mobius2021

Same boat here - going to stick with Argentina but feel sorry for the genuine people there.

Wonder will Ireland go up again at some stage - UK has went up to £19.99 which makes the Irish €11.99 price appear cheap.

Premium has encouraged me to watch far more Youtube and have gotten into several channels. The value proposition is terrible though if someone is playing full price for it. I don't use Youtube Music and Youtube Orginals don't seem to be great at all - it's effectively an ad blocker for me.

Jofspring

You'd have to imagine people with channels on YouTube won't be too happy if the prices get to a point that people start moving away from YouTube and they all start losing out.

feargantae

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119773558#Comment_119773558

Had forwarding set up on my now well expired student email and for some reason the SheerID email from YouTube came through! Didn't work with UniDays when i tried it

4real

How much is India? thinking to switch now from Arg.

shmeee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119776591#Comment_119776591

As reported by many in this thread and myself, India became very difficult the last few moths due to new laws on cards and VPN's etc. Near impossible to get payment working. I had to move away from India to Argentina as couldn't get a payment to work with BOI debit visa card, Credit card or Revolut card.

The Nal

No ads and unlimited hours of music streaming for the price of a third of a pint a month. Still very happy with that.

JTMan

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119776750#Comment_119776750

Similar problems with Revolut and AIB. But worked fine with PTSB debit card.

mistress_gi

I canceled my argentina family plan yesterday (ends 17 November), used Nord vpn to "move myself" to turkey and restarted the subscription using icognito tab on chrome on android.

Everything looks good, took revolut no problem and i added a virtual revolut as a backup and it says next payment will come out on the 17 November. Will keep posted if it goes through if people are interested 😁

TheDriver

Legend, just did same. Thought I'd to wait until it lapses but I recall it was same when I moved from India to arg.

All setup to renew at my renewal date at 60trl. All family were kept together etc, no issue.

Pauly26

So, what's the cheapest these days. Turkish subs?

Nigzcurran

So turkey is around a euro cheaper than Argentina?

Zardoz

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119773282#Comment_119773282

On mobile or app, on desktop there are no ads if use use the ublockorigin extension.

superflyninja

I got a notification there that there is a problem with my payment method and the YT payment (Revolut) won't go through.im setup in Argentina, I guess that means I'll need to cancel snd try signing back up somewhere else. Anyone else getting this?