Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report

Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by sschueller on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @02:50PM (#33347753)

Yet they forced all Google workspace users that were grandfathered in free plans to start paying and are currently forcing grandfathered Google music (YouTube premium) family subscribers to eat a +50% price increase.

Why would I stay with Google if my loyalty counts for nothing?

Same goes for Netflix, if you aren't going to reward me being with you from day 1 why should I show you any loyalty?

I will take full advantage of any free trials and cancled at the end switching from one to the other.

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Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by mark_l_watson on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:11PM (#33348008)

I didn’t even blink when I saw the cost of a family plan for YouTube+YouTube Music increase. My wife and I prefer YouTube Music to Apple Music (which we get from an Apple+ family plan) and we watch a lot on YouTube. I know that there are tools to block YouTube ads, but it seems more ethical to me to pay for something we use hours a day.

Pardon some humor: I laugh when non-tech friends don’t want to pay for ad-free YouTube but they will spend a ton of money every month at Starbucks.

Between lots of quality material on philosophy, beautiful background nature videos, Lex Firdman interviews, online class materials, Dust sci-fi short films, etc., etc. YouTube is probably the best value of anything I spend money for.

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Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by sschueller on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:27PM (#33348195)

I was paying 15 USD, it's 23 USD now. That's a huge increase. Also the ad volume on YouTube has dramatically increased.

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Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by juice_bus on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:51PM (#33348493)

You're not even spared from baked in sponsors to the videos, so ublock origin and SponserBlock are more effective for me.

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Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by munificent on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:59PM (#33348594)

> I was paying 15 USD, it's 23 USD now.

Have you looked the change in your grocery bills in that time? Prices are going up everywhere.

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Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by mark_l_watson on Thursday October 27, 2022 @08:09AM (#33356342)

Because my wife has been retired for a long time, we subscribe to just about every streaming service. Whenever other services’ prices go up, I sort of resent it but not with YouTube.

It is true that “internal ads” that people place inside of their content seem to be more prevalent. I don’t see other ads on YouTube.

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Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by hbn on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:01PM (#33347888)

> Why would I stay with Google if my loyalty counts for nothing?

Sure, I'll go get my ad-free YouTube from the competition

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Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by blibble on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:15PM (#33348047)

the competition is a github page with a patched youtube app

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Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by hbn on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:17PM (#33348081)

Not every platform has an ad blocker or patched app solution.

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Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by blibble on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:21PM (#33348121)

android and ios do

that leaves crappy settop boxes

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Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by anikom15 on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:57PM (#33348574)

I just set up my TV as a second monitor so I can watch YouTube on a normal web browser (with uBlock Origin) on it.

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Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by hbn on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @04:05PM (#33348650)

iOS has an ad-free YouTube app? Or do you mean a Safari adblocker and then watching all your YouTube in Safari where the experience sucks? What if I want to AirPlay? What about Chromecast?

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Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by blibble on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @04:57PM (#33349330)

> iOS has an ad-free YouTube app?

yes

> What if I want to AirPlay? What about Chromecast?

"that leaves crappy settop boxes"

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Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by verisimilitudes on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:12PM (#33348023)

Watching advertisements is completely optional.

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Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by 1-6 on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:09PM (#33347980)

Just VPN to a country with a cheaper monthly. Use the Privacy app to get a new CC#. Get your Premium that way.

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Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by magicalist on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:43PM (#33348375)

> Same goes for Netflix, if you aren't going to reward me being with you from day 1 why should I show you any loyalty?

Are you saying Netflix shouldn't raise your rate because you subscribed from day 1?

I don't like cost increases either, but this seems like a weird thing to demand.

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Re:Google profits plummet 27 percent in Q3 2022 earnings report by czhu12 on Wednesday October 26, 2022 @03:59PM (#33348591)

We don’t like it when a service is ad funded and we don’t like it when we have to pay for it also?

I think consumers have just come to expect investors to subsidize forever. It’s had a market distorting effect for too long

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