Technology

This will be like Netflix pushing against shared accounts, sure it will work and their revenue will go up, but I will stop being a paying customer and will only watch videos from my notebook with adblocks.

There are people actually paying for this crap?

I absolutely hate this stuff. My family doesn't live in the same house, but it doesn't mean we are not a family. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law just message us for the passwords when they want to stream something. None of us pay for youtube premium and it looks like I won't be.

So nice of them. They help me cut the strings to the last google service I was not quite committed to drop

Good thing I am never going to go youtube premium.

Fuck em. We try to pay even tho we know how to get it for free. Go back to ad blockers.

Not a perfect experience but it’s better than putting up with that corporate bullshit.

Imagine paying for youtube lmao

Ill immediately cancel and goto pure piracy if they do this to me. I'm getting so tired of this shit 🥲

I use a VPN so yeah that's not going to work.

I guess we going back to blocking ads

GTK. I think they flagged my account since I share it with my spouse and some of my basic features disappeared recently like mini-player in the browser. I might need to unsubscribe and just rely on Firefox with an ad blocker. Nebula and Patreon are good alternatives as well.

For those select few that have an iPhone

You have a few options:

• be EU citizen and sideload a cracked YouTube (similar to vanced, but you need certificates on iOS which sucks)
• pay for a dev account and sideload regardless of above
• buy two apps: vinegar and AdGuard. AdGuard speaks for itself, vinegar is a tool that forces YouTube to use the html 5 player inside of safari and thus forcing it to your will

I know iPhones are hated here, but I saw the android will stop sideloading coming from a mile away. At least here in the eu apple can suck one and I can still sideload whatever I want

People buy a pile of rotting shit and then wonder why it stinks.

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

I just got a notification that Amazon Prime is doing the same with grandafathered accounts allowed across households.

Run a personal VPN server at the home address and have external users route through it. I'd think it'd work for any subscription service doing this crap. I'm surprised nobody has started selling a turnkey self-hosted VPN device that even a non-techie can get running in a few steps - all the end users would need is an app that does split tunneling for the media players.

Amazon is doing the exact same thing. Just got an email today that they're shutting down the family Prime sharing thing. Had that for ten years now.

More people need to use Peertube.