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.
Obligatory: Safari with Vinegar on iOS!
15Or uYou+, if you're in the know. Otherwise Video Lite + filtering ads at the DNS level also works (if you really want a dedicated app).
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“Grandfathered”
You keep using that word, but I don’t think you know what it means
36It looks like they're using it correctly to me.
26Do you think grandparents live forever?
2Being grandfathered in actually would last forever.
The origin is, during racist bullshit, that one of the ways they "equally" opened extremely restrictive signups to vote was that, if your grandfather could vote, you could vote without dealing with the process designed to make it impossible to actually register. Being grandfathered in would pass to subsequent generations just as easily.
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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
31Me: Firefox + uBlock origin go BRRRRRRRR....
16the 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.
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I was promised $8 a month for life when I signed up for Play Music all access, and thankfully they're still honoring that.
25And yet they couldn't extend the same courtesy for me when they raised my grandfathered family plan
13That was the day I cancelled.
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They are? That's me also. I assumed I was getting a price hike. Why do you think we aren't losing our 8$?
6This price hike is for people who signed up for YouTube premium early (before it was combined into YouTube music). These people weren't promised a low rate for life when they signed up, their price was always going to increase eventually even if the service didn't merge.
I think the $8 Play Music All Access was advertised as a lifetime price, that it would be what we paid forever. I really hope that's the case.
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At this point I'm waiting for the them to put a stop to my VPNed price of £1.81 for a family plan but they keep allowing it.
12any advice on process?
VPN to turkey, buy sub? can I pay US CC? Can i use it from US ip?
5I have Argentina, I used a VPN to create the account (windscribe) and used a virtual card from Capital One to pay using a random address I found in Buenos Aires using Google maps. It's been going for almost a year without issues
11I chose India and I pay with a UK debit card SK can't see why US would be any different. Only needed the VPN for signup.
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Those subscribers were notified in July about the change. This is just a story about it taking effect in a few weeks.
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