Youtube Is Cracking Down on Sharing Premium Family Accounts Outside 'household'
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YouTube is cracking down on sharing premium family accounts outside the household, sparking frustration among users who feel it's another example of 'enshittification' of Google's services.
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1. Quit paying Google for your abuse.
2. Use Firefox with Ublock Origin and sponsorblock
3. On Mobile, use Newpipe instead of the substandard YouTube app. No ads and you can play in the background.
But in reality, this is just furthering of Enshittification of Google's services. And if you're a paying sucker, they'll know you will pay more. So they can extract more.
The better answer is to start pivoting to Peertube for videos. But there's no advert dollars and is noncommercial. So it gets content delisted from YT. But this is a societal collective action problem.
Creators want food on their table, too, and I want them to be able to keep their jobs.