Dramatic much? Canceling a subscription is 'the unthinkable' now? For fuck's sake.
this post was submitted on 10 Apr 2026
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forcing many users to consider the unthinkable "Do I really need 300 subscriptions?"
Okay, but they are not just paying more for the same service. YouTube Premium is worth more now because it allows you to avoid 90 second unstoppable ads. So don't say Google doesn't do anything for its ~~consumers~~ customers!
Adblock has been my wingman for years!
Why is everything being done "quietly" lately?
Because its a covering instead of saying underhanded or sneaky or tricking users.
"I didn't steal, I was just quietly sneaking money from their wallet!"
Announcing price hikes is bad marketing
I'm speaking more of the reporting. It seems like every headline claims something is being done "quietly" now when it was actually announced loud and clear. Take this price hike, for example. I got an email from Google last week telling me the price went up. That wasn't "quietly". "Quietly" would be raising the price completely unannounced and hoping no one notices.
The answer is simple: the site that published the article is complete garbage
Thanks for the reminder, just canceled my 2-month free trial with a few days to spare.
tell me about it; I'm paying double for revanced now
FoRcInG uSeRs To CoNsIdEr ThE uNtHiNkAbLe
Fuck off bootlickers
And the unthinkable is as blockers. Wow
Lol, piracy, the logical solution.
There isn't a single device in my home that shows YouTube ads.
I'll jump through any hoop before I give that shit website money.
Aah, shit website but you still watch it… oh, the irony
And when they try to force online ID bullshit I'll permanently walk away. We don't deserve the WWW if its just full of scammers. I'd rather rewatch my favorite anime for the millionth time.
Yup.
I think capitalism is shit but I'm still forced to participate in it. Until there is something better to use I'm stuck with YouTube.
Lmao
Arrrrr
So glad PipePipe and FreeTube are a thing
For now....
I would like to add an honourable mention to your list here: Kodi YouTube add-on. Somehow this is working for me again after being broken for ages. It's not the same (you need to use a Google account and API set-up) but no ads, auto play, recommend videos..
http://grayjay.app/ no Google accounts, no bullshit
Looks promising. It would work fine if I don't want to login with Google? Does it run ads like YouTube? I see they plan to support a couple hosts, which is cool, one application for all media streaming.
The unthinkable? lmao
Honestly I would probably pay for it and be happy but Premium doesn't solve many of the problems that still exist:
- being shown the same content over and over
- Dislikes hidden
- in-video ads
- Shorts absolutely crammed down your throat everywhere
- broken search results
- AI-generated slop absolutely everywhere
- crypto spam
- Google-connected account using view history to spy on you
etc. etc. All problems Google could solve easily but simply won't.
I have like 8 or 9 plugins for Firefox and just to make YouTube remotely usable. That doesn't account for the 8 or 9 more on top of that to make the internet remote usable.
Soooo true. What service are you even paying for, they change their business focus and now you get shorts. The best way to viee youtube is with an ad free frontend.
They finally lost me completely when I loaded a music video marked "adult" for language and it demanded I upload ID on an account that was legally an adult.
I made that account in 1999, it's not even from this millennium, and they still derp out on it. I'm getting close to 50, at this point, and the only thing ads, age verification, and extreme right wing content on top of state sponsored disinformation campaigns will get you is a blacklist.
We should have seen it coming, I mean they used to have the "Don't be evil" motto, removing that was a declaration of intent.
Considering YT didn't even start until 2005, I call BS 😁. Not to mention I don't think they would've had accounts from the get go unless you wanted to upload videos.
I pay for YouTube and they wouldn't accept the card I pay them with for validation.
So I took a photo of someone in a YouTube video and they accepted it as me and hey now I'm verified.
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If I’m paying, it will be to nebula. YouTube is toxic.
Lmao, you want to have a good laugh, read through the reddit comments on this. Full of corpo bootlickers talking about how poor Google needs to make money, why won't you think of the corpos??
Probably bots trying to trick people into thinking it's absurd and bad and all that.
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The 'unthinkable' of installing an adblocker or using a frontend?
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