After 12 years, YouTube’s 4K streaming option may soon be locked behind a Premium paywall

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Video text: After 12 years, YouTube’s 4K streaming option may soon be locked behind a Premium paywall Google can do whatever it wants with its products and services – I know that there’s really no stopping it or changing its mind when it’s made it up. What really bothers me though is when previously free features are then placed behind a paywall just to give a "premium" service purpose. In the past, we’ve seen this with YouTube’s feature, background listening. The ability to click your screen off and listen to a video or to music was just a way of life for well, everyone. Then, all of a sudden, it became a paid YouTube Premium offering. Not because it needed any special funding to run, but because Google decided it should be behind a paywall. As shown by Android Police, the 4K option on the video quality selector for any piece of content that offers it now shows "Premium – Tap to upgrade" below it. There are some mentions of this being a test and not a full rollout, but we’re not entirely certain yet. I suppose I understand that Google wants to cut bandwidth for users and for itself, but with all the money it will now be saving by not running Stadia’s servers, you’d think it could manage to continue offering the feature without changing its mind.