I'd be interested to see the subscription numbers for Nebula before and after this episode was released. Tom is very, very popular, and it's currently only £30 for a year's subscription.

Had a brief scan through it on the Apple TV app last night, and I was surprised by how many of the people I watch on YouTube are already on Nebula, so that's nice. And it means that I don't have to spend too much time fucking about with alternative ways to watch YT on Apple TV without having to pay an extortionate fee or tolerate a frankly unreasonable amount of adverts.

Seriously though; a few years back I discovered that you could sign up to YouTube Premium using a VPN in a country where it was considerably less expensive. As a result, I had a family plan from Ukraine that cost me about £6 a month.

And I was happy with that.

I could watch what I liked on Apple TV without adverts, and so could T on their own profile. It was great. We watched a lot of YT together.

But then YT closed that loophole and shitcanned our subscription. They wanted £20 a month to continue. I'm not paying twenty fucking quid just for YouTube. £240 a year. Astonishing. More than all of the streaming services.

And yeah, you get YT Music included, but I never, ever used it because I use Apple Music.

So instead, I put together a little script that downloads using yt-dlp into a Jellyfin server.

And Google then got £0 from me.

Fuck 'em.

@DJDarren I see people all the time saying that YouTube Premium is great value because YouTube is so awfully bad without it. Which really misses the point - Ad-driven YT becoming unusable is not an organic process, it is quite deliberate!

I pay for YouTube Premium Lite, which is OK for now. However, I firmly expect them to increase the ad load on that too over time.