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YouTube Music has started putting lyrics — a previously free feature introduced in 2020 — behind a paywall.

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[–] SuperEars@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago

Lyrics taken from other sites, and lyrics that are often wrong.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 20 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why is Youtube's monetization strategy so... petty?

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's just standard capitalism. Find something that people value and monetize it.

Anyway, brb, gotta go refill my airtank.

[–] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago

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[–] Battle_Masker@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Just as Newpipe starts bugging out for me

[–] tastemyglaive@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago

Pipepipe, Tubular still working fine. Metrolist (ytmusic specific) had some issues yesterday but it's fine now so it may have been my vpn's location getting blocked

[–] Naho_Zako@piefed.zip 4 points 1 week ago

Yeah, was gonna post about this a few days ago. They literally blur the fucking lyrics:

A screenshot of YouTube Music's Lyrics tab. The first three lines of the song are shown, the rest is blurred out. There's a button that says You habe 0 views remaining. Unlock lyrics with premium

It's been like this for about 3 days or so now, so I don't even know when it refreshes and gives you lyrics again. The lyrics they just pull from other sites and sometimes isn't even synced right 🙄

I guess I really just need to move to Navidrome now. I have the Arr suite set up and everything...