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[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Fun thing, I don't want to get YouTube Premium because YouTube has a huge bunch of bugs and glitches and crap UI design and since they're the only service in the niche there's been no indication they'll ever fix their shit.

I didn't care about YouTube Music, so losing ads on stock YouTube apps was literally the only reason I was even considering getting Premium.

But if it doesn't even do the one job...?

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

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[–] thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

VPN to a country with a lower cost, and sign up there. It used to be Turkey and India, where you could get a Family Plan for like $2/mo - but they’ve cracked down a bit on it.

We use YT for so much in our ‘household’ that it made sense to pool together and get Premium, and honestly it feels good having ~5 people who consume a tonne of content ad-free for nearly no cost while still supporting our preferred content creators.

[–] DJDarren@thelemmy.club 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

They’ve brought the hammer down on this. I was happily ‘traveling to Ukraine’ with my Apple TV to watch YouTube without ads for the equivalent of around £3 a month for over a year. Last month they canned our Premium.

I use yt-dlp to download my subs into a Plex folder now. Fuck ‘em.

[–] HowManyNimons@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

So they reduced their revenue from you from £3 to 0. Smooth move Google.