YouTube cracks down on Family Plan members outside the same household

[Neatfeatguy]

Youtube premium is an absolute bargain - excellent value for money. If people don't want to pay, they must have serious financial problems or an attitude problem. I am happy to pay my own subscription fee (which I have done for many years now) as I get a lot of value out of Youtube. I use it every evening to listen & watch live music performance recordings while I exercise, and over a month many more hours of general videos and news. Getting 60fps 4k gaming videos is also good.

Your personal experience is just that, yours. You cannot tell others that your experience means the product is a bargain for the price it sells at. Not everyone needs nor wants these features. If it makes you happy, then great, but it's not the same for everyone else.

I personally think the cost is outlandish for youtube premium, but I don't really make use of youtube so I see no value in it. I also think the cost for youtube TV is extremely high, but I also have no use for it.

Clearly I'm not their target audience so they're not looking to cater to someone like me, but you, on the other hand, they're more than happy to gobble up your money to feed your addiction and you seem to be okay with that.

 

[axiomatic13]

You confuse "can" with "want to". I most certainly won't run a VPN 24/7 on my phone while listening to YouTube Music. Let alone my family.

Oh and I won't run, maintain, and pay for a publicly available, fix IP VPN server either. No, I can't host at home, I have CG-NAT. And even if I could, I wouldn't. I don't need no random cyber attacks all the time, nor added electricity costs.

No, I won't mess around with random Cloudflare tricks and DynDNS and all that carp either.

No, I won't pay for some sort of premium VPN that reserves a fix IP range for me either (not that I'm aware of any).

All these options would entail me paying more for something I already paid for. All this mess for me to be able to keep using the service that I FULLY PAID FOR.

I 100% agree with not wanting to pay. That is why I chose Ubiquiti because there is no charge for their home VPN services, it comes with the purchase of the router. As to always being VPN'd to home, that's a plus, not a minus. I am always behind my PiHole and I see no advertisements anywhere in the world.

 

[Rational]

Other people expect Google to develop the backend, store these videos, and stream them at a variety of quality settings to b potentially millions of people at once....for free.

No, not free. The videos are laden with ADS. And Google has now crippled playback with NEVER-ENDING ads, forcing you to continually press Skip to herd the program you were watching along. This is really handy when, for example you're cooking and your hands are covered in who knows what.

Then Google feigns shock and outrage when people install ad blockers. FU, Google. You took people who were willing to watch reasonable ads, and turned them into ad-blockers. Cry more about it, jagoffs.