For the life of me I don't know how people don't think twice about subscribing to Netflix and others while consider it unreasonable to subscribe to YouTube. It's easily 10x the value.
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It probably depends on how you use it. I mainly use it for entertainment, so Netflix and YouTube are closer comparisons. In Europe, the YouTube family plan is €23.99 (my wife would not be happy if only I got Premium). In contrast, Netflix is €12.99 for 2 devices (people).
I know the economics are complex (storage, tooling, etc.), but from a simple consumer perspective, YouTube doesn't really pay for the content creation, so why is it almost double the price?
> YouTube doesn't really pay for the content creation
Half of the subscription goes to creators, they do pay.
I'll tell you why? I've always known what the deal is with Netflix, I pay them money, for a fairly discrete service that let's me watch movies.
I'm not getting targeted by adds or tracked around the internet, or any other nonsense for paying to watch a movie.
Google on the other hand is a whole other level of blurriness when it comes to my privacy and what they plan on doing with the money I give them. Does it just go to more shady addictive algorithm development and such?
Maybe if Google completely changed their model for YT to be, you pay premium and we no longer try get you hooked on some spammy click bait news feed and you get access to see "downvotes" again so you can easily identify shit content, then I'd pay, but they can't do that because they suck.