Google really seems to want to disincentivize people paying for YouTube Premium rather than just downloading an ad blocker.

I finally gave up when they started blanking out my home page as I turned off history... I don't even miss it

This you can even use YouTube Music with it.

Youtube can suck a peener. I will pirate whole channels if they keep fuckin' up.

THIS IS NOT REQUIRED ANYMORE

Just add them in your Family settings

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)

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.

Chrome + Ublock Origin Lite also still works, fyi.

Running personalDNSFilter (whole phone, non-root adblocker) blocks ads just fine for me in the official unmodified Youtube app.

How have you never heard of yt-dlp?

I had that error a couple of times, and it inexplicably resolved itself. Try having the person join again (which may require a new invite). I think only 1 out of 4 members of my family were able to join without that initial error message. This was back when Steam had just switched how they handled family sharing, so I assumed it was just an implementation bug of some sort. One of my friends took three attempts before they could join, but it worked ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Though I will note that steam family sharing no longer works if the person is located in another country for the purposes of Steam billing region (so my Norwegian friend could not join my UK family)

It'd be real nice if people would actually use their brains and realize this.

I keep trying to convert my friends to using Firefox mobile for this reason. I generally try not to evangelise too much, but I have so many friends who keep complaining about ads when browsing the internet on mobile, and this would literally solve their problem. One friend complained about ads so frequently that they ended up getting irked at me telling them the problem was solvable. Our unhappy compromise was that I would stop telling them to use Firefox and uBO if they stopped complaining about this so much in front of me.

I respect their choices, but by God, I'm baffled by them. I get that inertia makes it hard to make switches like this, but when you're spending so much time complaining about how much effort it takes to use the internet on your mobile, why would you not just solve the problem?

The front page is a direct reflection of the content you engage with.

yt-dlp, it can be used to download playlists and also only download new videos in a playlist

I'm not sure how Orion gets away with it, but Apple has been deadset against allowing other browsers to exist on their platform, Chrome, Edge, and Firefox on iOS are just a Safari wrapper. This strongly limits what they can offer for extensions. The only people who own Apple phones is Apple, everyone else is just renting.

I cancelled Netflix when they did the sharing bullshit and I cancelled prime when they wanted MORE money to not give me ads. Fuck that.

However, you and I seem to be in the minority since these mega corps push one bullshit after another and people just bend over and go "please use lube this time..."

Gabe Newell is 62 years old. Gonna enjoy this gravy train while we can...

Makes me long for the days of google music. It just worked. Streamed stuff and even allowed you to stream your own library that you had stored in drive. I would use that in the car.
Then they ditched it for YouTube music, which was a worse experience and lacked the features.

That's the old way of handling it. (And I think it still works.) They have a new implementation that's just the family group admin sending an invite and the recipient accepting.