Technology

Use dockers app as you can. Jellyfin and others are your friends.

Tho, i can understand that's hard for most of people to setup a server.

I had been paying for YouTube Premium for about six years because I fell for the trap when I bought my S9 at launch. (in fairness, I do spend an extreme amount of time a year watching YouTube so at the time it did make cost-effective sense) They gave two years of YouTube premium as a benefit of getting it then I never cancelled. I finally canceled about five or six months ago because the price I had been paying originally was close to $10 a month. I had over the years jumped up to almost 18 a month and a little while I had survived ongoing on a student discount. But when the student discount plan jumped to almost $12 a month, I said screw this, cancelled and installed grayjay and tizentube/tizentube cobalt.

I stopped paying when they started to openly support Israel. I’m fine with paying a service to maintain itself and Youtube is storing a LOT of high quality video, but giving away millions worth of support to a genocidal state is not something a streaming service’s operating costs should include sooooo fuck ‘em. Ads suck, but I can live with them.

I paid for premium until I started getting ads out of nowhere. YouTube changed their policy to include ads in my previously ad-free package.

I cancelled and started using smartTube f-droid. It has sponsor block integrated. Auto-skips all ads, not just the ones injected by YouTube.

My whole family uses my google account with a grandfathered $7.99 price from the GPM days lol. I'm fairly certain they lose money on us.

Kind of unrelated but youtube adds new free movies all the time. Sometimes over 100 per day...other days 15. This site shows all newly added movies:

https://www.justwatch.com/us/provider/youtube-free/new/movies

... and people keep subscribing. Good argument for saying it is an addiction

Re vanced! For the win!