YouTube Premium

ElliorR · 2 Jan 2023 at 12:30

Just started a 3 month free trial of premium, so nice without ads, and come the 1st April I'll have to "move" to another country.

Kanpai · 2 Jan 2023 at 13:29

ianh said:
It instantly skips the sponsor section for you irrespective of length, so you don't have to FF or jump yourself, making it far easier to use when segments can last 2-3 minutes or more or be multiple smaller segments dotted through-out a video.

It automates a task that is already so simple in itself that takes less than 2 seconds on PC

ianh · 2 Jan 2023 at 15:24

No

Kanpai said:
It automates a task that is already so simple in itself that takes less than 2 seconds on PC

Yeap, now imagine having to never ever waste those imaginary "2 seconds"*** ever again as an app does it for you.

*** - I think that is utter make believe, unless the video creator specifically highlights where and how long every single sponsor section is for you, as almost every sponsor section is at least 30sec to 2 min+ which you have to know exactly when it starts/stops to avoid missing any of your video.

krooton · 2 Jan 2023 at 16:03

Also, some sponsorship stuff is actually well made and funny, Critical Role NordVPN stuff is awesome

Kanpai · 2 Jan 2023 at 18:09

ianh said:
No

Yeap, now imagine having to never ever waste those imaginary "2 seconds"*** ever again as an app does it for you.

*** - I think that is utter make believe, unless the video creator specifically highlights where and how long every single sponsor section is for you, as almost every sponsor section is at least 30sec to 2 min+ which you have to know exactly when it starts/stops to avoid missing any of your video.

Well I'll give it a try for PC and see how it goes.

Let me figure out what I can do with the time gained back in the meantime

Robert · 4 Jan 2023 at 20:02

Kanpai said:
Well I'll give it a try for PC and see how it goes.

Let me figure out what I can do with the time gained back in the meantime

Regardless, automation > manual. Its a mindset

Kanpai · 4 Jan 2023 at 20:51

Yeah I've been using it for a day or two now it's a nice to have for sure, I like how in the timeline it highlights the sponsor segments too.

jpaul · 4 Jan 2023 at 21:57

So what's the mechanism to identify videos with high quality/original-record-company music, and, can you drive an external dac bit perfect (like you can with Tidal)

jon86 · 5 Jan 2023 at 10:54

jpaul said:
So what's the mechanism to identify videos with high quality/original-record-company music, and, can you drive an external dac bit perfect (like you can with Tidal)

You won't get FLAC quality on any YouTube service. That seems to be a somewhat USP to Tidal.

happy_2008 · 5 Jan 2023 at 12:00

So which country are people using nowadays for YT premium? Also, can you only do this using online banks eg Monzo/Starling etc?

Raymond Lin · 5 Jan 2023 at 12:11

happy_2008 said:
So which country are people using nowadays for YT premium? Also, can you only do this using online banks eg Monzo/Starling etc?

Barclays and Argentina still. It went from like 81p to £2 and then back down to £1.

happy_2008 · 5 Jan 2023 at 12:16

Raymond Lin said:
Barclays and Argentina still. It went from like 81p to £2 and then back down to £1.

Thanks, trying to find a VPN to use thats free so that i can sign up. Seems as though most VPN offer 30 day money back guarantee but i only want to use to sign up

Ayahuasca · 5 Jan 2023 at 12:27

Windscribe worked fine for me as a browser VPN from Turkey.

Kanpai · 5 Jan 2023 at 13:03

Hola VPN works well too and is free

happy_2008 · 5 Jan 2023 at 13:18

Used VPN 30 day money back guarantee. Selected Argentina but for some strange reason when i select premium, its coming up with brazil premium even though my location is Argentina. Is Turkey the next cheapest option? Tried India but NordVPN don't have India.

Junglist · 5 Jan 2023 at 13:20

India doesn't really work any more.

I think I'm living in Turkey at the moment.

happy_2008 · 5 Jan 2023 at 13:32

Junglist said:
India doesn't really work any more.

I think I'm living in Turkey at the moment.

When i sign up it asks for billing address? Do i put in the turkey address in here and if so will my mastercard payment still go through as the details wont match up to my home card address?

Junglist · 5 Jan 2023 at 13:48

i just put my home address for billing address

malachi · 5 Jan 2023 at 13:58

Tip for everyone.

India still works, it depends on your VPN provider. NordVPN no longer works due to no Indian servers.

Tuesday I signed my friend up to a year of YT Premium via India for £13 in total

My VPN provider is now Proton VPN, I selected an India server but when I signed up it showed Singapore dollar(SGD) I got around this using by enabling the Forwarding option. Some VPN providers call this Double Encryption I think. Then it displayed the Indian currency.
Finally I used my Revolut card, only my normal physical card. Not the temp card or virtual.
It takes sometime to authenticate when the payment is being processed but it went through after 40 secs

Hope this help anyone else who wants to try the India method. I still pay monthly, my last bill was £1.37.

happy_2008 · 5 Jan 2023 at 14:15

Managed to buy TRY 299.99 annual plan for £13.