YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household
Technology
214
Beiträge
133
Kommentatoren
7
Aufrufe
-
Wow, shilling for YouTube premium and anti-net-neutrality (the "discount through your phone company" part) in one comment.
Is recommending a product that you’re satisfied with “shilling”?
Is there a product in this world that you think is worth the price? Does that make you a shill?
-
and it's a multi-billion dollar corporation, that already makes more money than you or I will ever see in our lifetimes, that actively strives to make the user experience worse for people who don't pay, when they've got a practical monopoly in the "free video sharing platform" market. And you're whiteknighting for them.
By Darwin you see a lot. I was merely stating that I think YouTube premium is worth the price I pay for it.
Is there no product you are satisfied with? Your life must be pretty bleak.
-
actively strives to make the user experience worse for people who don't pay
And evidently those who do! My parents live in a different country. What are they, not my family? What's the family plan for? (Rhetorical question)
With Vanced I have so many more options to customize my experience. I can hide shorts I never watch, set a fixed resolution for data and wifi, return the stupid dislike ratio they removed... And if I'm using Vanced anyway to fix all the issues they introduce, why on earth would I additionally pay for their service?
I want to pay for their shit, especially to support content creators, but I can't support a platform whose singular mission it is to make everything worse for everyone constantly. Feels like every month I have to get a new extension to undo some horrible design decision.
I agree that it would make more sense if they called it a “household” plan. That’s clearly what it is.
-
This post did not contain any content.
One would wonder how they'd know that but then again, one knows.
-
I suspect Google won't care if they "accidentally" lock VPN users out of YouTube Premium.
Considering 50% of gen Z use vpns, I think they might need to reconsider
-
Meanwhile on Steam my "family" consists of 3 adults with different addresses, last names, and credit cards, who have had accounts for decades and never lived at the same place.
We have full access to each other's library.
How do you add new people? I tried and a prompt told me that we don't seem to share a household.
-
do it anyway. don't give money to google.
Easier said than done. My parents are the main reason I haven't, it's just easier to pay monthly than it is to fix their mistakes when they fuck up the things I try to setup.
-
Where would the money come from?
I'd be perfectly fine with some sort of subscription. That gets distributed to authors I watch. But I can see technical challenges to it.
-
How do you add new people? I tried and a prompt told me that we don't seem to share a household.
Login on their PC or let them login on yours
-
Login on their PC or let them login on yours
If one changes their password afterwards, will the share persist? Old Steam family sharing broke after changing the passwords.
-
If one changes their password afterwards, will the share persist? Old Steam family sharing broke after changing the passwords.
Should still work. Not 100% sure tbh
-
Just use Firefox Mobile to watch YouTube.
Ad blocking through uBO and can enable playing with locked screen.
Just use Firefox Mobile
to watch YouTube.There we go, fixed it for you
-
This post did not contain any content.
Google really seems to want to disincentivize people paying for YouTube Premium rather than just downloading an ad blocker.
-
This post did not contain any content.
I finally gave up when they started blanking out my home page as I turned off history... I don't even miss it
-
Revanced
This you can even use YouTube Music with it.
-
This post did not contain any content.
Youtube can suck a peener. I will pirate whole channels if they keep fuckin' up.
-
Login on their PC or let them login on yours
THIS IS NOT REQUIRED ANYMORE
Just add them in your Family settings
-
YouTube steals other people’s work?
I tend to watch content creators who willingly put their content on YouTube. Am I missing something here…?
You are missing something. Multiple things actually.
- most content isn't uploaded by the copyright holder (e.g. TV excerpts)
- demonetized videos will still have ads (at least for people without ad blockers)
- videos are used for machine learning without credit to authors or financial compensation (especially without consent when it's not the copyright holder uploading them)
-
One would wonder how they'd know that but then again, one knows.
Pretty easy to know, in fact. Same way Netflix, Disney, or HBO knows. Same account, accessed simultaneously from two distinct IP addresses. Not really rocket surgery.
-
Firefox + ublock origin still works to block all YouTube ads
Invidious is a frontend for YouTube that blocks all their trackers and ads
PeerTube is an alternative community ran platform to replace YouTube in the future
Chrome + Ublock Origin Lite also still works, fyi.
