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YouTube Premium is getting yet another price hike for users across the globe (www.dexerto.com)
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[–] 6 points 8 hours ago* (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 6 points 7 hours ago (1 child)

    If I'm understanding you, Google got ~ $500 out of you over the course of 4-ish years? Say it ain't so!

    PEOPLE! Install Firefox, Waterfox, any *fox and install ublock origin on your mobile devices RIGHT NOW!! Is there some feature that you can't use in a mobile browser that these apps do and I'm just too old to understand?

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  • [–] 1 point 45 minutes ago

    I finally replaced it but until several months ago I was watching a lot of YouTube on a ~2018 Amazon Kindle tablet... one of the reasons I replaced it was because YouTube on Firefox chugged on that thing near the end. NewPipe managed to get like six more months of semi-acceptable use out of it (I was still sick of the ads and preinstalled app-ads) until I found a good deal on a used Pixel tablet locally. A dedicated app is less bloated than the web interface, but I guess this is more of an argument for NewPipe and other third party frontends than Google's still bloated app.

    Mostly unrelated, but anyone got suggestions for repurposing an old Kindle fire? Might be interesting to see how much ADB can debloat it and maybe turn it into a retro emulation device since I don't need a digital photo frame.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago (1 child)

    Any reason I should go for grayjay instead of Morphe? In context of youtube since I don't use any other video streaming platform that Grayjay offers.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 hours ago*

    I have never used morphe so I couldn't tell you, but I like how grayjay let's me make playlists and download offline across multiple platforms while still allowing sign in, plus, I know a lot of people won't like this, but I do like the ability that it still allows to give me personalized results, which is something that I noticed the other YouTube front ends don't do without workarounds. it also gives me those personalized results across all platforms.

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