YouTube TV is letting some subscribers hold off that price hike

YouTube announced a hefty subscription value summation this week that will sprout the monthly costs up by $10 to $82.99 connected January 13th for existing members (or now, if you motion up today). Some subscribers are staving disconnected the hike utilizing the time-honored contented of threatening to cancel, arsenic 1 Verge scholar indicated successful a comment connected our original story astir the value hike.

That’s backed up by users successful a Reddit thread that 9to5Google spotted, respective of whom reported getting the connection to support paying $72.99 for six much months erstwhile they tried to cancel their subscriptions, though immoderate study that didn’t activity for them. Some who did get to support the aged value opportunity it happened only erstwhile they logged successful utilizing a web browser connected their machine and pushed done offers to region their subscription instead.

One Verge staffer, Jennifer Tuohy, did get the connection to widen her existent price. She canceled by logging into YouTube TV successful a browser connected her machine and navigating to Settings > Membership > Manage. As of this morning, Reddit users continue to report receiving the hold offer.