So they block adblockers and then hike their prices? It was as Louis Rossmann said: If YouTube was making a profit, you’d expect Alphabet (the publicly traded parent company to Google and Youtube) to disclose its profitability to attract investors, but they don’t, so it’s quite likely YouTube was operating near break-even or at a loss until now.
When Netflix and Premium came along, I switched from pirating literally everything to finding that I had access to everything I wanted to watch between 15-30€ a month combined. Cheaper than a TV sub here costs (and a TV sub here didn’t have the shows I wanted to watch).
Then the whole streaming market fragmented with every jackass on earth starting their own and removing a buttload of content from Netflix and YouTube.
Resulting in that if I wanted to watch everything I want to watch, I’d be paying north of 150€ a month.
So I pulled my wooden leg and dead parrot out of my closet and resumed pirating.
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This article is from 2022. I received an email from YouTube yesterday for the Turkey family plan is going up to 115.99 TRY from 59.99.
Same here.
Canada was already 22.99
So they block adblockers and then hike their prices? It was as Louis Rossmann said: If YouTube was making a profit, you’d expect Alphabet (the publicly traded parent company to Google and Youtube) to disclose its profitability to attract investors, but they don’t, so it’s quite likely YouTube was operating near break-even or at a loss until now.
And the linked website androidpolice also block adblockers 🤷
Seems to be working fine with ublock turned on
Ublock is working just fine.
Youtube Vanced: Free
Adblocker: Free
When Netflix and Premium came along, I switched from pirating literally everything to finding that I had access to everything I wanted to watch between 15-30€ a month combined. Cheaper than a TV sub here costs (and a TV sub here didn’t have the shows I wanted to watch).
Then the whole streaming market fragmented with every jackass on earth starting their own and removing a buttload of content from Netflix and YouTube.
Resulting in that if I wanted to watch everything I want to watch, I’d be paying north of 150€ a month.
So I pulled my wooden leg and dead parrot out of my closet and resumed pirating.
Yarrrrr!
The US price hike was several months ago, and there was no grandfathering either.