Mildly Infuriating

That's almost one cent per video. Outrageous!

It is because it includes YouTube Music. A really crappy Spotify clone that nobody asked for.

The package for couples is 25. I save a dollar.

Invidious alone has been working quite badly this year (stopped working for months until inv-sig-helper was invented, etc), but combined with FreeTube it almost always works; can recommend.

I've done this for about 6 months, I've had a very mixed experience with Invidious, mostly with YouTube constantly making changes without notice or the video stream not really supporting resuming if the connection breaks briefly.

This isn't a comment on the Herculean effort the contributors are taking on, but new users should be aware that they need a very reliable connection, update the container regularly, and exercise patience in the current state of Invidious.

Bitrate and resolution do their own thing.

I think, there is usually 1080p with 30fps and with 60fps. So, they are probably selling you 30 more frames per second... for $13...

You can have high bitrates, but non enhanced bitrates are just worthless no matter what

A company isn’t successful in hyper capitalism unless they are accelerating the growth of their profits every year. They have to sell more products to existing users, acquire new paid users, charge more for their existing products, or they’re considered unsuccessful. The model literally assumes a constant infinite exponential growth of the human race where success can only be achieved if every human alive is paying for every product offering possible, buying every upsell and microtransaction, freely giving their data to be sold so that more useless products can be created at minimum cost and sold at maximum price. But also hyper capitalism lobbies for less benefits, lower pay, etc. It inevitably collapses into neo-feudalism or just slavery

And if you're a content creator, you can opt in to allow your content to be used by AI... Without compensation. 🤡

I got the 2 month free trial recently and have yet to see an ad with it. Don't plan on continuing the service if I do see one.

Search is also completely broken on YouTube. It's become useless.

That's a nice way to lose access to all Google products, including your email account.

Depends on economies, they can't really charge like double minimum wage, so countries like India have "cheaper" subscriptions. So for a minimum wage worker, it's about the same in terms of expense (ignoring other bill differences).

So it's probably going to stay about the same for you.

Paywalling a better resolution than the ones ALREADY present on the platform, may be the best way to approach the issue of it being fucking expensive to serve it.

Youtube has gone to shit and the enhanced 1080p bitrate is not one of the reasons

Resolution is the same it has always been, they are just offering a higher bitrate stream with premium (except I think they offer 8K streams on premium? But like come on... who the fuck needs that).

Doesnt matter if the video is uploaded in 4K, you can watch that stream at 1080p with the same/better effect.

OK, am I the only person that has a working ad blocker and doesn't get YT ads? Literally never seen one.

Is this a vibes-based position, or did you actually check the bitrate of the segments?