Recently, YouTube has announced that they will be starting a monthly subscription service that will give consumers exclusive, ad-free content. The premium service may cost $10 a month according to many sources. Creators won't be able to continue showing content unless they sign up for this subscription offering. If they don't sign up, all there videos will be set to private. One other feature that will be added is the ability to store videos offline on their mobile devices any time they want to.
As you would expect many YouTube users don't want to pay for something that used to be free. Not only that, but we already have YouTube to mp4 converters and adblock, so many think that this whole movement will just cause people to not use the paid YouTube service at all. The main reason this change is being made is because of Netflix's success proving that users would be willing to pay, yet the main appeal that YouTube had was the fact that it's free. This change will have a huge affect on YouTube, and it's just something I thought more people should be aware of. What do you think about these changes?
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