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ardi60@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours ago

YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household

www.androidpolice.com

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YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household

www.androidpolice.com

ardi60@reddthat.com to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 23 hours ago
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YouTube's quiet crackdown on family plans is starting to hit users with a warning email
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    I pay for it. No ads. Background playing on mobile, and YouTube music included.

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      Background playing on mobile

      The fact that they put this behind a paywall is enough for me to never pay them a dime.

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        I found a neat little workaround that I used for a while. I’d load the video up in my browser, turn the phone on an off a couple times, press play on the lock screen, and enjoy it that way.

        Edit:

        Still works. Just gotta full screen the video and then power off before it kills picture in picture.

        And now I’m listening in the background as I type this.

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          I found a little workaround called Newpipe.

          • theangryseal@lemmy.world
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            15 hours ago

            I’ll check it out. Thank you.

        • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          I use NewPipe on my phone (and FreeTube on my laptop)

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          @interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml gave me a really good suggestion the other day. If youre on Firefox, it might work for you too :)

          https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/video-background-play-fix/

          I just have the video running on Firefox and can them go to another App / turn off the screen

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        That’s fair

      • Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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        It used to just work. Then it only worked with a funny work around. Now I don’t care because I pirate their content instead.

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      I’m in a family plan, so when this change hits, going to have to find alternative methods.

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      I do too but the value is waning. When I try to watch without having logged in and see all the ads, that add some value back

      • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.world
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        In what scenario are you watching it without being logged in?

        • AstralPath@lemmy.ca
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          Go to a family member’s house and try to show them something on YT.

          Cringe in horror at the experience.

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            I am aware of how bad logged out YouTube is, that’s why don’t do it lol.

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          Not the person you asked, but I do that sometimes. For instance, when I want to watch a specific video but I don’t want having watched it to affect other video recommendations.

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            Incognito window =)

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            I don’t know if this actually does what I hope it does, but if I happen to watch a video that I don’t want recommendations on in the future, I manually delete the video from my watch history.

            I don’t know if that really helps, but at least as a placebo it feels good to do.

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              If unsure of a video, 1. on desktop open in new tab - if ya don’t want that content/creator click the 3 dots on the main page video and select don’t suggest channel, on phone (just did this a few mins ago) back out of video and since on mobile the home feed doesn’t reset hit the 3 dots etc

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          I stopped watching YouTube logged in after getting FreeTube on my laptop.

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      I dont pay for it, use grayjay or firefox with ad block, I have no ads, background playing on mobile and I could care less about YouTube music.

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      I just pirate it

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        Pirate… what?

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          Videos from YouTube

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            How does one pirate free videos? Is there somebody uploading torrents of YouTube videos?

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              How have you never heard of yt-dlp?

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              when all the videos get put behind login walls and drm, perhaps someone will.

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