YouTube Premium says the price party is over for grandfathered accounts
YouTube Premium says the price party is over for grandfathered accounts
The YouTube Premium price hike from earlier this year will start applying to grandfathered accounts starting in January 2024.
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Cardinal Scum: Lord Google! Our Premium service is only making 8.5 Billion net profit per year, a miserable increase of 25% from last year!
Lord Google: These peasant eyeballs have disappointed me. Force the plebians to ingest propaganda as in the olden times! And as for the so-called-Premium subs . . . we will crush their purchasing power!
Cardinal Scum: Yes Lord Google! Brilliant!
Lord Google: Muwahhahahahahah!!!
Cardinal Scum: (hesitantly) Heh heh . . hee heee heeh hehehehh yesssss . . yes
Me: Firefox + uBlock origin go BRRRRRRRR....
the day this combo no longer works is the day I don't visit youtube. Honestly if there are some alternative front end/extension that's better please let me know. I visit youtube for times like game award announcement(so trailers and official release), search for review benchmark while I want to buy PC stuff, and the rest mostly just game educational stuff from Digital Foundry and channel like PBS Space Time. I am doing the upkeeping(so tagging channel as not interested or straight blocking them), but recent generated clips are flooding Youtube like crazy. I want to have a page/frontend that only my subscribed channels and whitelist keywords to show up.
I mean the Invidious project is nice. So is NewPipe. I tend to primarily use YouTube through a patched android app with Revanced; and with SmartTube on an android TV set-top box. When uBlock Origin finally falls; I'll almost certainly move to downloading videos automatically and putting them into Jellyfin, hopefully the options for automated YT downloads gets better by then. Right now the best option seems to be ytdl-sub.
This is my plan as well. I'll miss some of the discovery aspect of youtube, but it'll be nice to have a way to continue watching the channels I enjoy
I think the discovery aspec would come from these:
- links from your frequently visited sites, community
- recommendations when you ask in more niche group, the frequent there usually can point you to a better youtuber/reviewer.
- or some lazy effort when you just go to the default and search with keywords(while in a container tab) and navigate through the useless stuff.
I complaint because now my youtube feed are filled with other pseudo-science and auto-generated stuff, youtube's algorithm have failed me basically. Half are from my subs and another half are from people or program that are trying to exploit you with those "try this to improve ....." shit and just paste some sounding scientist names.