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Jesus Christ google, how much money are you spending to foil 0.000034% of your user base
The purpose, is to keep it difficult enough that the “honest” person doesn’t get the idea to start doing it.
Same concept as putting a lock on your front door. It’s not to stop thieves, it’s to stop the average person from getting the idea to “just take a quick look”.
By occasional going after workarounds AND making it public news. Your average computer user thinks it’s not worth the hassle.
Luckily they can’t do this in the EU. As an EU-citizen, I have the right to subscribe in Romania, for example, and pay no more than a Romanian would.
Newpipe and its forks for the win.
And LibreTube, they’re also on Mastodon and even have a Lemmy community: !libretube@feddit.rocks
Its too fucking expensive for what you get. Throw in access to all movires and TV for $15, then maybe I’ll subscribe.
I can watch Youtube without ads using an adblocker or NewPipe. Why anyone buys Premium is beyond me.
Could be one of the many reasons such as ensuring their favorite creators get paid for their views and end users not being tech savvy enough to know about ad blockers and NewPipe.
I can donate. No reason for Google to get most of it.
That’s a good approach. But people aren’t tech savvy enough to install NewPipe in order to avoid ads. Paying for YT premium is the most user friendly way to avoid ads and support creators.
Tubular is a fork of NewPipe with SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike integration. LibreTube is another great option, which uses the Piped backend. They also have a Lemmy community, and you can check them out on Mastodon: https://fosstodon.org/@libretube
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !libretube@feddit.rocks
It sounds kinda illegal. Can Coca-cola stop me from going to Denmark to buy for danish prices and claim I have to pay Norwegian prices?
It’s directly comparable to buying danish subscription and using the service from a danish exit. If my data originates in china and are vpn-ed to Denmark they have the same cost on providing me service as anyone else in Denmark
Edit: I’ve never been to China, but it’s like really far away from Denmark.
In the EU, this is illegal. As an EU resident, you have the right to subscribe to any service in another EU country.
Yeh - but it does not include efta
There’s probably something in the terms about it, and it would take a very expensive legal battle to settle it. And I doubt it has enough legal merit to be taken on as a class-action lawsuit.
So, really, does it matter if it’s illegal? With the asymmetrical power imbalance, they literally don’t need to care about the laws. Realistically, no EU regulator is going to fine them for cancelling “a purchase made in India”, either.
Oh there goes my back up plan for server side injection ads
Ok I’m using revanced anyway…
Newpipe over here
Tubular is better, it has SponsorBlock and ReturnYouTubeDislike integration
You didn’t link tubular fyi
Damn I seem to have pasted the RYD link twice, now it’s fixed
I will check it thx for the info
NewPipe it’s pretty good, I’m using revanced for YT Music and NewPipe for YouTube.
I will check it thx for the info
I tried to get brazillian youtube premium or whatever and it just didn’t work.
I did a South American country once too but the payment processor has a snafu and it stopped working after the 2nd month. I just spun up a personal invidious VM and moved on with my life.
Isn’t a cheaper subscription better than no subscription Google?
