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YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household (www.androidpolice.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 35 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Why pay for premium anyway? Let alone a family plan. You still get ads. They can be skipped too — SponsorBlock will do it for free. Google could use this but chooses not to.

They want YouTube to be like cable TV. You pay for it. You watch ads. You pay more for premium channels.

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  • [–] 37 points 11 months ago (7 children)

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

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  • [–] 42 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago* (4 children)

    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.

    Edit:

    Still works. Just gotta full screen the video and then power off before it kills picture in picture.

    And now I’m listening in the background as I type this.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months 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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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I do too but the value is waning. When I try to watch without having logged in and see all the ads, that add some value back

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  • [–] 6 points 11 months ago (3 children)

    In what scenario are you watching it without being logged in?

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Not the person you asked, but I do that sometimes. For instance, when I want to watch a specific video but I don't want having watched it to affect other video recommendations.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    I don't know if this actually does what I hope it does, but if I happen to watch a video that I don't want recommendations on in the future, I manually delete the video from my watch history.

    I don't know if that really helps, but at least as a placebo it feels good to do.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    If unsure of a video, 1. on desktop open in new tab - if ya don't want that content/creator click the 3 dots on the main page video and select don't suggest channel, on phone (just did this a few mins ago) back out of video and since on mobile the home feed doesn't reset hit the 3 dots etc

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    I just pirate it

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Pirate… what?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    Videos from YouTube

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    How does one pirate free videos? Is there somebody uploading torrents of YouTube videos?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    How have you never heard of yt-dlp?

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yt-dlp doesn’t pirate YouTube videos… it downloads them directly from YouTube.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    it downloads them directly from YouTube

    Thus, pirating them. More or less by the same method that is used to download every single WEB-DL movie/episode you see on torrent sites.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago* (1 child)

    It’s not pirating if you’re obtaining a video that they’re making available to you for free lmao.

    Otherwise it would be “pirating” to just load up YouTube.com in your browser and watching any old video.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    So you're using SponsorBlock as well, or you're watching videos without sponsors.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    In-video sponsors are not even remotely the same thing as the ads YouTube puts on videos, but that being said no I’m not using SponsorBlock. YouTube premium has a button to skip in-video sponsors so I don’t need sponsor block.

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  • [–] 16 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    The three people who replied before you said they don't get the sponsor plugs.

    When I had YTP (I had a trial, it was like 3 months for $1), I got the sponsored segments. So either those other people are lying, or they don't understand what I'm saying.

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 11 months 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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