1y ago

Used VPN for cheaper YouTube Premium? Congrats, your subscription has been canceled

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Google clamps down on VPN workarounds for cheaper YouTube Premium subscriptions

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/35022759

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Nemeski @lemm.ee

1y ago

Used VPN for cheaper YouTube Premium? Congrats, your subscription has been canceled

www.androidauthority.com /youtube-premium-vpn-cheap-subscription-clampdown-3452674/

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limerod @reddthat.com

1y ago

Google clamps down on VPN workarounds for cheaper YouTube Premium subscriptions

www.androidauthority.com /youtube-premium-vpn-cheap-subscription-clampdown-3452674/

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If you want a good front end alternative to youtube, try freetube on pcs and newpipe on android
- Also there is https://piped.video/trending for watching in browser and Revanced on Android
  And for anyone using YouTube Music there is Desktop app for Linux,MacOS and Windows https://github.com/th-ch/youtube-music
  
  There is libretube for using piped as an app on Android
  
  Revanced is fucky nowadays. I haven't been able to fix the issue where videos randomly stop buffering until you reopen them.
- SmartTube on Android TVs!
  
  To add on to this for iOS/macOS/iPadOS if you use safari you can send YouTube to your TV through airplay. Skips all the ads and if you use sponsorblock skips that too, so if you are too lazy to install smart tube this is a setup that works nicely.
- FreeTube is on Android too.
  
  ...no it's not?
  Edit: yes it is
Big tech can cheat the system by paying their taxes on countries in which they are lower, but when you try to do the same:
Use NewPipe on Android, problem solved.
- Or LibreTube. They even have a Lemmy community: !libretube@feddit.rocks
  
  Didn't knew about the communnity. Suscribed.
Imagine paying for youtube 😂 Giving the big bully more money.
Anti Commercial-AI license
- I pay for YouTube because it does give more revenue than watching an ad to the creators. I pay 6$ and watch hundreds of hours monthly. If it was more than that I will consider alternatives and AdBlock (what I was doing before started my sub). To each their own :)
  
  They don't have patreon?
  
  It’s the equivalent of $16.50 a month where I live and that is not an insignificant proportion of my monthly income. The adverts are constantly repeating and often for products and services that are actual scams. I firmly believe as soon as enough people pay… we’ll have to pay more or they will show us a smaller number of “specially selected” ads.
  
  It's still Google, which is basically just another EvilCorp Inc. Probably donating more directly to the creator would give them more money than going through Google.
  Anti Commercial-AI license
- do you think the signature you include in your posts have a tangible effect?
  Do you disagree with this comment? https://alexandrite.app/lemmy.world/comment/9806517
  
  I think it's hilariously naïve. The comments will be scraped anyway, and there's nothing you can do about it
  
  It was enough to convince a few others to do the same, however pointless it is. They've been told before, but don't care either way and will keep doing it.
  
  Of course I agree with the comment. I take all my ~~copyright~~ advice from random comments on the internet. Especially the ones that use expletives. Those are the best comments to take advice from.
  Anti Commercial-AI license
- If the France sports dns blocking has proved anything it’s that most people just don’t bother. And if it doesn’t work just accept it instead of just changing a DNS setting in a computer.
  
  ❔
- $20 month for family music streaming plus the insane amount of good content is a bargain. Y'all just want to be salty they are forcing you to stop freeloading 🤣.
  
  YouTube was built on illegal content and still has a buttload of illegal content and Google knows it but won't do anything about it. Let's not call the kettle black.
  If they really want to be serious about it fine, turn it into paid-only access. It will neatly solve the whole ad debacle and they won't have to play cat and mouse with VPNs and blocking and all these shenanigans.
  Ask yourself why they don't do that. It's because 90% of the content on there is illegal and when they host it for free they have an excuse. But if they turn the whole thing private and ask for money to access it they become liable for all of it.
  
  When Google stops deciding which content creators matter and which don't, I'll pay. When I can have my subscriptions feed un-fucked with by their political agenda, I'll pay. When my home feed doesn't send me the same goddamn rich kids videos as suggestions for months on end like there's some chance I just overlooked them and they're slightly related to my interests, I'll pay. YouTube is complete garbage. Some of those content creators can have my money. YouTube cannot.
  
  Congrats on completely missing the point. Nowhere did I mention ads. The problem is giving money to a company like Google.
  Anti Commercial-AI license
  
  I'm not affected since I use freetube and newpipe. This affects people who were actually paying and watching YouTube logged in but not people like me.
thats literally fraud. Consider yourself lucky they're not some other online marketplaces.

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