YouTube Premium announces 100 million subscribers

uBlock Origin has 36,000,000 users according to Google and ABP has 46,000,000 users. Another 13,000,000 use AdGuard and 67,000,000 use AdBlock (the crappy one, but nonetheless, it blocks YouTube ads).

Also on Firefox there are 7,780,587 uBO users. Checkmate

Watch how they steadily increase the price now (which they’ve already been doing)

And it still doesn't have sponsorblock. Free is more feature rich than paid. Hahaha

This "Article" is short on details, And according to this article Google did not reveal data about subscriptions in the recent earnings call. I can only think this a PR piece to fluff up Google's shares and discourage critics. Unless Google can be confident enough to explain which regions added subscribers and how much of such a subscription was part of a bundle... We can't conclude that their anti-adblocking measures and price hikes were successful.

Example: India would fluff up numbers without adding as much revenue (bundles are common and subscription prices are low) than NA or EU

Their war on ad-blockers must be paying off

Grayjay, revanced, libretube, newpipe, youtube piped, youtube invidious, and uBlock origin 👀

That's over a billion dollars a month. If they're still operating at a loss with all that then it's their own incompetence at fault.

How many of those subscribers are like me, definitely watching YouTube from Argentina.

Use Freetube, people.

marketing tactics to get even more to subscribe, ala "x amount of people got it so it must be good".

Yet it feels like I got better things to spend it on, as I don't watch much anymore due to algorithm changes making me miss the prior new music uploads and or newer channels to discover.

Every refresh contains the same or prior channels watched with the same content shuffled or worse, suggest old dated watched videos.

Found the corporate account. Fuck youtube. Steal that shit.

I do have YouTube Premium, because between the ad-free movies and TV shows and the music, the family sharing option was cheaper than Spotify and a couple of streaming services we gave up, and the few new content creators I do watch get paid more. But if they keep raising the price, I'll look for something else.

Revanced all the way, baby!

I looked at it. The features aren't worth the price at all.

I’ll be honest. I did. With a VPN. It costs me $2.50 a month.

I might even consider it out if they weren't selling me music as well and if there was a family option (in my country). And no, I wouldn't consider VPN as I won't do extra work to be able to pay google.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

Hot on the heels of Google's "One" subscription plan obtaining 100 million users, YouTube is also hitting that big milestone, with 100 million people paying for Premium and YouTube Music.

YouTube's subscription data didn't make it into the earnings call three days ago.

After warning users that ad blockers violate YouTube's terms of service, the pop-ups show a big "try YouTube Premium" button.

Premium also added an exclusive "enhanced bitrate" 1080p setting, although 2K, 4K, and 8K options have always been free.

YouTube Music is free with ads and a more limited feature set, but subscribing gets you ad-free playback, background playback on phones, and access to YouTube Music streaming on Google's various speakers.

YouTube's blog post highlights quotes from many big music industry CEOs celebrating the service.

The original article contains 280 words, the summary contains 127 words. Saved 55%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

Yeah I got it after some other lemming told me that you can get it for cheap with a family account. I pay 4 bucks per month now which apparently also supports YouTubers more than watching ads on their videos.

Stockholm syndrome at its finest.

Ahah.

Fucking lazy sheep. Yeah, give poor Google your money and help them perpetuate the ever corrupting monopoly that is eroding and censoring our entire internet.

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100 million idiots