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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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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They've been also serving ads for YouTube premium as well recently

My guess it that it's to rope in people who don't use adblock

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Wait... YouTube Kids has ads without Premium?! I would've hoped they'd keep the ads away from kids at least.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Anyone who grew up in the U.S. in the 80s can tell you that we spent hours every Saturday morning watching ads for toys disguised as cartoons in between ads for toys not disguised at all.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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