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Google raising price of YouTube Premium to $13.99 per month
(9to5google.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
I'd say stick with what works for you. I will say that NewPipe does not even touch your Google account. You have to go to takeout to export your playlists and then import them into NewPipe. Since I've found all three (for all three platforms), the only way I watch YouTube now is through them. Ads are a foreign concept to me now.