YouTube’s Premium Lite subscription is going away.

This plan was available in NZ and was the right price point for me to watch YT on the Smart TV with no ads. Now it’s $18/mo bundled with YT Music.

Not for me, thanks.

  • Hazzard@lemm.eeEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    That’s too bad. I pay for premium, it’s the main thing I watch, and I actually regularly download and background play, so it’s worth it, but… man, they’ve really been cranking up the price and it’s getting ridiculous.

    I wish they’d at least offer a marginally cheaper option without YouTube Music. Was a much better value with Google Play Music, YT Music is such a terrible service that I literally went out and started paying for Apple Music to get off it.

    This seems like a pretty good indicator that they intend to stick with all or nothing though, which is very disappointing.

    • ciaocibai@lemmy.nz
      3·
      1 year ago

      I use YouTube music because it’s bundled with premium but man that app is so janky, and it often seems to fail with downloaded music for me when out of cellphone / wireless service which defeats the purpose of having downloaded music.

      • Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz
        2·
        1 year ago

        I’ve noticed it chucks a shit fit when you lose coverage, even when playing downloaded music. It’s not so bad when you didn’t have coverage in the first place.