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What subscription finally gave you "subscription fatigue"?
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YouTube premium raised their prices. I had got it back when Google music was the thing. Then they raised the price. Then they raised the price again. Then they raised the price again. The last price raise gave me the motivation to check out Spotify and newpipe.
I haven't looked back.
Check out InnerTune on Android or https://beatbump.io , you can listen to yt music gratis thanks to free/libre software!
I did exactly the same thing. I miss Google Music. I also miss Songza which they bought, integrated into Google Music and then killed it off anyway.
I'm still grandfathered in from the Google Play Music days, paying $7.99/mo for YT Music + YT Premium. I will never interrupt that subscription and lose that price, haha.
You likely lose that price in December. I got an email telling me so and I believe it applies to all of us grandfathered in. Here's the relevant part of the email:
Hmm, what was the subject of that email? I don't see one like that, but I want to be sure.
"YouTube Premium Price Update"
July 20
Yeah, interesting, I don't have that email. I guess I'll find out if my subscription rate increases in December!
Use InnerTune and you can drop the price to 0 ;-)
Pardon my ignorance, I don’t mean to insult, but how does a python library drop the price to zero? Do you have your own app built using this library?
I'm sorry, I could've been more clear. There is an app called InnerTune (F-Droid is an app store on Android that contains only free/open source software) which lets you stream and download all of yt music for free. You can also use the website beatbump.io to stream.
Youtube Premium is also unnecessary when you use the adblocker Ublock Origin on Firefox. On Android, NewPipe is also a great app to watch and download the videos ad-free.
That is possible because Google badly protects its content APIs.
Huh, thanks for the info! I will definitely need to read up on all this.
I am also in that tier. They are raising the prices weather you like it or not.
*legacied
The term grandfathered in has a pretty fucked racist origin.
Had to investigate, and turns out you're right about the origin. The original grandfather clause was meant to exempt blacks from voting. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause
I'm not a fan of term banning, however. We still use the number 9 even though Hitler said it a lot.
Yeah but Hitler did not create the number 9. Slight difference. There is also no other term to express the number 9.
Legacied means the exact same thing and does not have the racist origin. There is certainly no ban on using 'grandfathered in' but there is no real reason to use it since it does not convey anything that the term legacied already does.