coffeeguyAug 18, 2023

I just canceled my youtube premium account after about 7 years of constant membership.

The recent price increase was crap. The service I receive hasn’t improved - actually with their shitty compression even on “4k” videos my enjoyment has really decreased.

But, the big driver were ads. With premium I didn’t see ads, instead I was increasingly bombarded with “words from our sponsor” all over videos.

Anyway, I recommend freetube. For now at least, it actually blocks all ads including sponsor blocks.

I won’t pay a monthly fee to be google’s advertising product.

Show threadapplejacksAug 18, 2023

I just changed my country to India, and subscribed.

Would never pay $10/month or whatever the cost is, but at my $1.30/month rate, it’s worth it.

Show threadInvaderDJ
I’ve heard about this life hack for years, but I don’t want to risk my primary Google account since my mail is attached. I have to create an acct strictly for YT and try that.
Aug 18, 2023 at 6:43pmWeb
Show threadLemmy Reddit ThatAug 18, 2023
I think you have to create new account anyway. At least that’s what I did for YouTube Music. Because I don’t want to change home country of my main account and I even think you can only change country once a year or something, so I created new one, using VPN set to Turkey, and now I have family pack for around 1.20€ - 1.80€ (this month it was 1.20€), up to 6 users. But this is only YouTube Music Premium, without YouTube Premium.