YouTube Premium thread SEE OP

antimatterx · 20-10-2022 9:07pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119772536#Comment_119772536

Steep increase if you're in Argentina.

TheDriver · 20-10-2022 9:08pm

Got it too. Better move to Turkey.

antimatterx · 20-10-2022 9:09pm

Argentina family will now cost around €5 instead of €1.30 per month. It was nice while it lasted. It's still very cheap, but **** me.

Del007 · 20-10-2022 9:11pm

How much is the turkey youtube? That's a large increase for Argentina

R11 · 20-10-2022 9:14pm

Got email also....have turkish YouTube premium users got similar email? Have Youtube finally copped on to the workaround?

shmeee · 20-10-2022 9:15pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119772559#Comment_119772559

Just got the email also. That's an insane jump in price. I know it's still cheap and all. But for genuine people in Argentina that's a whooper of an increase. 179 Pesos to 699 Pesos.

TheDriver · 20-10-2022 9:17pm

Got it too. Better move to Turkey. Assume it's just cancel, let sub elapse and then fire up VPN to turkey, sign up using saved google play card?

mailforkev · 20-10-2022 9:17pm

Got the email too, ARS 119 to 389. Still cheap enough for me (around €2.59) not to notice it coming out of my account but that’s a huge percentage increase.

Ush1 · 20-10-2022 9:18pm

Got that email as well, is Turkey cheapest now? How do you switch country?

TheDriver · 20-10-2022 9:19pm

It's 18 in irl. Expensive for what it is

Gumbo · 20-10-2022 9:21pm

We created YouTube Premium to provide an uninterrupted YouTube experience, so that you can get closer to the videos, creators and music artists that you love. To continue delivering great service and features, we will be increasing your Premium price from ARS 119.00/month to ARS 389.00/month.

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This change will take place on your next billing cycle starting on or after 21 November 2022. To check the status of your account and billing information, go to your Settings > Purchases and memberships page. All members have the flexibility to pause or cancel at any time here.

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YouTube Premium will keep delivering the benefits that you enjoy, like ad-free YouTube with background and offline play and uninterrupted access to over 100 million songs with the YouTube Music app. Members also get to try experimental new features and exclusive livestream afterparties with music artists. This update will allow us to develop even more Premium features and continue to support the creators and artists that you watch on YouTube.

Art Fonzarelli · 20-10-2022 9:22pm

Turkish account:

"To continue delivering great service and features, we will be increasing your Premium family plan price from TRY 25.99/month to TRY 59.99/month."

F1ngers · 20-10-2022 9:24pm

Turkey going from TR17 to TR30(€1.60)

Art Fonzarelli · 20-10-2022 9:24pm

So €3.30?

shmeee · 20-10-2022 9:35pm

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/119772651#Comment_119772651

Yep, Turkey family plan increase to €3.30, Argentina increase to €4.65.

TheDriver · 20-10-2022 9:35pm

I moved from India to arg years ago and it was easy but I didn't have a family acc at that point.

Nigzcurran · 20-10-2022 9:38pm

I dont think it’s worth the hassle switching to turkey to save a euro a month, I currently let 4 people use my family plan for free but getting tempted to ask for contributions now!

Clareman · 20-10-2022 9:40pm

Being the paranoid sort I'd imagine that Google is smart enough to spot people moving from 1 cheap country to another just when a mail is sent, considering it's less than a fiver a month it's still great value, I won't be risking a block for €1.35 savings a month.

ablelocks · 20-10-2022 9:41pm

just got an email :

yadda yadda yadda bs......we will be increasing your Premium family plan price from ARS 179.00/month to ARS 699.00/month. yadda yadda yadda bs

that's a big increase from €1.19 to €4.65 approx.

I don't use it that often, (although recently had started to watch more live gigs) so if I can't relocate to a more pocket friendly foreign state, i'll be cancelling....

Wexy86 · 20-10-2022 10:12pm

Does anyone know how I go about removing family premium and just have a single user premium account?

dodzy · 20-10-2022 10:23pm

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

antimatterx · 20-10-2022 10:40pm

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

bromley52 · 20-10-2022 10:47pm

I'm glad I stayed with India.

Jofspring · 20-10-2022 11:22pm

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

AB7 · 20-10-2022 11:28pm

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 · 20-10-2022 11:47pm

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 · 20-10-2022 11:54pm

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 · 21-10-2022 12:08am

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 · 21-10-2022 12:23am

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

Jofspring · 21-10-2022 7:01am

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

Ohmeha · 21-10-2022 7:42am

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 · 21-10-2022 7:45am

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 · 21-10-2022 7:51am

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

how you getting it as a student?

2lazytogetup · 21-10-2022 9:02am

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 · 21-10-2022 9:08am

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 · 21-10-2022 9:59am

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 · 21-10-2022 10:13am

€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 · 21-10-2022 10:53am

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 · 21-10-2022 1:25pm

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 · 21-10-2022 5:38pm

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 · 21-10-2022 7:28pm

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

shmeee · 21-10-2022 8:09pm

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 · 21-10-2022 8:57pm

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 · 21-10-2022 9:26pm

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

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

mistress_gi · 22-10-2022 10:23am

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 · 22-10-2022 10:43am

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 · 22-10-2022 12:11pm

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

Nigzcurran · 22-10-2022 12:15pm

So turkey is around a euro cheaper than Argentina?

Zardoz · 22-10-2022 3:13pm

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 · 22-10-2022 11:35pm

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?

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