South Korea for anybody wanting to ship the article.
Edit: I’m keeping it as is.
Where are we shipping it?
North Korea
Haven’t they suffered enough?
🥁🐍
It’s for Kim, everyone else can pay for it.
Not where, with whom.
We ship this article with YouTube CEO Neal Mohan.
also what it used to cost, and what it does now, so you can skip the article for other reasons instead:
“YouTube’s annual subscription plan in South Korea was initially 10,450 won ($7.95 USD) per month for the web and 14,000 won ($10.65 USD) per month for Android and iOS.”
For Germany it was 11.99 -> 12.99€
Pretty good value actually.
Except their feed is shite, the notifications have never worked, their support is awful, their policy is piss poor and randomly enforced and they don’t pay to create the vast vast vast majority of the content they are being paid for. So fuck them and their shitty platform.
I got dragged over from Google Play Music, and never use YouTube video.
My subscription is going from AUD 9.99 to AUD 16.99 a month in April, for features I couldn’t give a crap about.
I just want to listen to music, fuck this noise. I’ve got a reminder in my calendar in March to cancel my subscription and I might switch to Spotify which is $5 a month cheaper here.
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I honestly find it hard to see how there is any value, just a waste of money. But you do you
Do people actually read the whole AI generated article just to find out the country name?
I’ve been shipping South Korea and this article for years
Mmmh, South Korea and this article… so hot right now!
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Use Revanced for your ad free YouTube needs.
i second this, more actual features for no extra money. (adblock, return youtube dislike, sponsorblock)
Now if only there were a revanced for my TV…
If you have an Android TV or Android box hooked to it, there’s SmartTube, which is pretty much reVanced for the big screen. It works great !
Same model as all ways. Put all free, people completely upload their info and relying on it, monetize what people free uploaded. Same fucking model as all the companies and not just for media. Example ChatGPT. This should be illegal worldwide.
the thing is that i get why they need money for their infrastructure after blowing up so much. but what really rubs me the wrong way is: they have studied how to butcher people’s private data for 20 years. now they’re really really good at it. can i trust that they suddenly abandon this practice in exchange for my money or are they going to double-dip? a massive mega corp like would never… or?
The free version of ChatGPT is still the same version as it was a year ago
Thankfully Firefox and adblocking is free.
They will probably block “non-certified” browsers soon enough.
I’d hope that would lead to FTC action, but that’s only if the republicans don’t win the presidency next year.
And also EU DMA/DSA actions
Youtube’s entire platform is built around dominance. It’s the one-stop-shop for all “content creators.”
They won’t sacrifice that because it will make Youtube no longer synonymous with ‘online video.’
Firefox is like 3% of all internet browsing. Probably even less on YouTube. They can sacrifice a little bit.
I mean, that’s a terrible business decision when you have a monopoly.
I can easily see you getting fired for even suggesting this. It just shows how out of touch you are with modern economics.
This is Google’s strategy. Haven’t you followed the manifest V3 debacle? They want to end ad blocking once and for all. Their entire business model is to sell ads. They want to turn that ad blocking crooks into sweet new ad revenue. Maybe even subscription revenue.
Yes, but google won’t sacrifice its monopoly to show people more ads. Hence why they, you know, haven’t done it yet.
In what way are they sacrificing their monopoly? There’s no viable alternative to n YouTube.
They also restricted IE6 when it was far more dominant than Firefox is today (and when YouTube was far less dominant), so it’s not completely unheard of.
Slow news day in tech I guess.
