YouTube Premium users across the globe are facing significant price hikes as Google increases subscription costs in over a dozen countries. This follows earlier price jumps in various regions, including the United States last summer. The latest increases vary by region, with some countries experiencing hikes between 30% to 50%. For instance, in Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Italy, the Family plan will rise from €18 to €26 starting November, while the individual plan will increase by €2 to €14.

Countries affected by these changes include Ireland, Netherlands, Italy, Belgium, UAE, Switzerland, Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Colombia, Thailand, Singapore, Norway, Sweden, Czech Republic, and Denmark. Although most Reddit reports are from European users, the price hikes also impact the Middle East, Colombia, Singapore, Thailand, and Indonesia. YouTube had already raised its subscription prices in India by 15–20% in late August.

  • Gregor@gregtech.eu
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    Bitwarden is worth it. (Yes, I know, I should self host it. I do, but I still see it as a good deal.) Also Hetzner is a good subscription. So yes, some are worth it

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      Agreed:

      -Bitwarden

      -Storage Share

      -ControlD

      -Real debrid

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            Just do the cheap unlimited personal plan and hook up a shit load of external HDDs to your PC. I have a system where my NAS syncs to my PC which syncs to Backblaze so I can sorta hack my way into unlimited NAS backup for $10/mo.

            3-2-1 backup where the primary source of data is the NAS, on site backup is desktop PC external HDDs, off site backup is Backblaze.

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          That’s an insanely good deal! I should move pict-rs to backblaze on my Lemmy server

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          So, only cheap services are worth it?

          Are there some expensive services that are worth it? not just that they increase their price just because.

          Don’t get me wrong, I want more examples (and I am a happy subscriber of Real-Debrid for years already).

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            As I have said previously, Hetzner is most definetly worth it and it can be expensive. I can’t think of any more examples tho 😅

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            Well, I use what I need. I’m not going to pay an expensive service just because. For instance, I wouldn’t pay for Proton. It’d be quite useless (and expensive) for my use case. I do have a paid Zoho email account, tho.

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          Out of curiosity, what do you do with all that storage? Can’t imagine I’d ever need that much personally

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        Authenticator. Also, I would like to support the devs. Running a server and developing the software itself is far from free.

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          Fair enough, but does having your passwords and 2FA on the same service not defeat the purpose of 2FA?

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            Good point. 2FA is quite useless if you have a randomly-generated 256 characters long password for every service. I guess Bitwarden is worth it for the advanced security reports (it costs them money for this) and supporting the devs?

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        I pay for it because it was required to share passwords with my SO. That’s now in the free version, so I don’t really need it anymore, but it’s $10/year, so I keep the sub to support the devs. I’ll probably end it once I self-host it.

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      I like SimpleFIN ($1.50/mo IIRC) + Actual Budget. I can pull in transaction data from multiple sources into my self-hosted Actual Budget service, which is super nice (or I can DIY if I want).

      I used to use Tiller ($80/year I think?), which is basically the same, but it pulls transactions into a spreadsheet (Google Docs or Microsoft Office) and they have some budgeting tools around that. I’m trying to move away from Google and Microsoft, so I ended up cancelling, but I really liked their service.