YouTube Is Pausing Premium Family Plans if You Aren't Watching From the Same Address

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• HiTekRedNek@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Because fuck truck drivers, fishermen, pilots, traveling salesmen, and all those other people who routinely spend weeks or months away from home, and still wind up with a few hours a week of free time to watch streams.

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• brb@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Is it based on ip address? What about when everyone in the household is using their own mobile data?

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  • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    “YouTube would like access to your location.”

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• C1pher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is what happens when you keep paying for bullshit “services”. They keep pushing and pushing… in the end you wont get shit for your money.

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• doctortofu@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  What's next, account suspension and 15 lashes every time you tell someone about a video you watched on youtube without paying Google?

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• Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Cool im hearing that im setting my parents up with wireshark

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  • 6nk06@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I love Wireshark but they don’t deserve to suffer. What have they done?

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    • Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Birthing me was a big one.

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  • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Isn't Wireshark just a packet sniffer? What exactly does that resolve for this situation?

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    • Funky_Beak@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I meant wirguard. Urgh sorry!

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• undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If I cared about YouTube Premium and sharing it across addresses I’d probably just tunnel into the payer’s network.

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  • rumba@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I would cancel the plan. And use whatever ad block is at my disposal.

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    • undefined@lemmy.hogru.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yeah I’ve got Google’s servers and thousands of domains completely blocked on the layered VPN tunnels I call my network. I don’t care about YouTube in the slightest, and I pay for whatever I actually want to stream.

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• BlackLaZoR@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I watch it using GrayJay app from one and only Louis Rossmann because fuck them

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• Hayduke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I had them cram it with walnuts when they nearly tripled the price of it. Brave browser gets me 90% of the features with 0% of the effort or cost. Just can’t download. No worries.

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  • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    And 100% of the referrer-hijacking. 🤣

    I get that it's a neat browser, but I don't understand how people can continue supporting it after such blatant disregard for user agency.

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    • Hayduke@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Wasn’t aware of that. Good to know. Youtube is the solitary thing I use it for and I don’t navigate outside the site for merch/product links, but that is some scummy Honey nonsense right there.

      Time to look around for an alternative. Thanks!

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• PMmeTrebuchets@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  FML I’m going to have to get my own premium now

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  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Or start using Ublock origin

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    • PMmeTrebuchets@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I mean, I do, I just also like YouTube music 😅

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  • Wakmrow@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Or not. Just pirate or use Firefox

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    • PMmeTrebuchets@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I do use Firefox. What sort of alternative for YouTube music would you recommend? I only use it (YTmusic) because I have YT premium, and why pay for another subscription for Spotify/ apple music (those may sound better but I am HoH so that doesn’t affect me)

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• mintiefresh@piefed.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Enshitification is just so annoying and tiring.

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