Comment on YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household

cerebralhawks@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I pay for it. No ads. Background playing on mobile, and YouTube music included.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Background playing on mobile

    The fact that they put this behind a paywall is enough for me to never pay them a dime.

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    • theangryseal@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I found a neat little workaround that I used for a while. I’d load the video up in my browser, turn the phone on an off a couple times, press play on the lock screen, and enjoy it that way.

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      • floofloof@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I found a little workaround called Newpipe.

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      • thatonecoder@lemmy.ca ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Most certainly off-topic, but I have found other cool workarounds for apps.

        For instance, if you open 2 windows of, say, PowerPoint (1 you want to use, the other you must close after; read below). Then, go to the one you don’t want to use (or at least one you use for this method), and wait for the no account/Office not bought/whatever pop up; in any case, do NOT close the pop up. Open the other PowerPoint, and then close the former. If done right, you’ll be pleasantly surprised that it works perfectly! After that, you can open any additional ppt files. Do note that, after you close PowerPoint entirely, you gotta do this all over again.

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      • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        I use NewPipe on my phone (and FreeTube on my laptop)

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      • wdx@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml gave me a really good suggestion the ither day. If youre on Firefox, it might work for you too :)

        addons.mozilla.org/…/video-background-play-fix/

        I just have the video running on Firefox and can them go to another App / turn off the screen

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      That’s fair

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    • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      It used to just work. Then it only worked with a funny work around. Now I don’t care because I pirate their content instead.

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  • Dozzi92@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’m in a family plan, so when this change hits, going to have to find alternative methods.

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  • AlfredoJohn@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I dont pay for it, use grayjay or firefox with ad block, I have no ads, background playing on mobile and I could care less about YouTube music.

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  • xodoh74984@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    NewPipe does this for free

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t have an android

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  • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I just pirate it

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    • EncryptKeeper@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Pirate… what?

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      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Videos from YouTube

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• nucleative@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I pay for it, also no ads except the sponsor plugs, which are pretty easy to skip. Overall a better experience than the non premium. I don’t live in the USA so my cost is like $5/month.

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• bitwolf@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  YouTube is my only subscription.

  I use it for Music and Video. I definitely get my money’s worth, they’re streaming to me at least 8 hours a day.

  If it’s not background music, it’s videos. I can’t even fathom how many hours of ads I have avoided.

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  • mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    same here, but even I’m looking to cancel both to avoid supporting a US company and because they’re making my experience worse by having a shitty user experience

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  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I’ve never seen a single youtube ad with uBlock Origin. SponsorBlock takes care of most of the sponsored segments that a premium youtube account won’t get rid of.

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• stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  You don’t get ads. You pay less than double what two premiums cost and your household can share.

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• Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I have YouTube premium and have not gotten any ads.

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• Simyon@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I pay for premium because currently it’s the easier option for getting no Ads on all my devices. Yes I could install a third party client on my TV, Phone & use uBlock on Desktop, but two of those require active upkeep.

  • YouTube Music is included.

  For sponsorships, YouTube Premium has the “Skip Ahead” feature which basically leeches off sponsorblock users where commonly skipped sections can be also skipped by you.

  It’s just currently easier to pay than to pirate. I will say however, if it gets too shitty, I will resort back to pirating.

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• krunklom@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  YouTube is fucking garbage.

  I don’t care about the ads because it’s fucking garbage, and why would I watch garbage?

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