YouTube is increasing Premium prices in multiple countries, right after an ad-blocker crackdown
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Google is increasing the prices of YouTube Premium and YouTube Music Premium subscriptions in some regions, right after blocking ad-blockers.

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.

  • redcalcium@lemmy.instituteEnglish
    171·
    8 months ago

    Heck, they don’t even pay a good fraction of their bandwidth because they put caching box in your ISP location to reduce loads. This is a huge privilege as ISPs won’t let any random companies run equipments for free in their network, which is one of a huge barrier for any YouTube competitors.

    • LufyCZ@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      61·
      8 months ago

      They might be allowing them to run the boxes for free, but the ISPs are saving money on bandwidth, too.

      Get enough users for the ISP to care and they’ll work with you. Otherwise, you probably don’t have all that many users to begin with, so the overhead that maintaining and distributing these boxes would create wouldn’t be worth it anyway.