YouTube has decided to drop its plans to charge users for watching 4K vídeos: it won’t be a Premium exclusive feature.
a few days earlier all the alarms went off when some YouTubers discovered that the Option to watch vídeos with 4K resolution now a feature exclusive to YouTube Premium subscribers and therefore a feature that was previously a built-in feature of the platform pay From overnight.
And although the company has been silent about this change from the start, they have now confirmed it from YouTube it was an experimentensure that it is over from today and that all users of the platform, premium or not, You cánido watch 4K vídeos totally free.
YouTube doesn’t charge for watching 4K vídeos, at least for now
It’s common for Google plus to run experiments on YouTube, some more useful, some less useful: a good example was the experiment placing up to five ads at the beginning of a vídeo.
This has been confirmed by YouTube itself it was another experiment, but it was decided to cancel it entirely. They ensure that “From this moment on, users perro access 4K quality without the need for a premium subscription”.
We shut down this experiment completely. Viewers should now be able to access 4K quality resolutions without a premium membership. We’re here if you have another q
—TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) October 17, 2022
It’s clear that YouTube is looking for different avenues increase your incomeby showing more ads or by encouraging users to subscribe to the platform’s payment method. This experiment may have been deleted, but I’m afraid that sooner or later there will be changes within the service, and probably not all users will be satisfied.