YouTube Premium

I set my family group up before joining. Going via Ukraine and paying through revolut. Just stick £10 in every once in a while and it takes care of it.
Think last time I looked it was around £3 a month. The kids use youtube music, and I just want it for the ad blocking.

I've since sold my mini pc I was using for pi-hole and moved to NextDNS. Once you get the right blacklist it's awesome, but not checked if it stops YT ads.

I remember last year I managed to create a code to block ads on sky stream saving £5 a month. Posted it on reddit and got a warning letter from sky lol
 
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give your ears a belated xmas present - Tidal trial of 60days - £4 hi-fi Flac(mqa dying ) typically 24/96 , £2 for aac 320kbs, 16/44.1.

can play exclusive/bit-streaming -
took me a while to disable their normalisation option that artificially distorts songs by increasing/decreasing volume between them, and had introduced windows sound-mixer into audio path
Decent DAC is what I'd like in new phone for car use, cutting out the car-play&android-auto re-sampling&48Khz mixer.
 
My annual turkish You Tube Premium expired today and i couldn't renew due to a "You Tube is unable to verify your location" using Nord VPN on Turkey so i have renewed it on monthly basis using Ukraine which is slightly more expensive £2.50 a month i think.
 
happy_2008 said:
My annual turkish You Tube Premium expired today and i couldn't renew due to a "You Tube is unable to verify your location" using Nord VPN on Turkey so i have renewed it on monthly basis using Ukraine which is slightly more expensive £2.50 a month i think.
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I had the same. Do they not offer a yearly sub anymore? Everywhere I tried seem to be monthly.
 
Shadowness said:
I had the same. Do they not offer a yearly sub anymore? Everywhere I tried seem to be monthly.
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Same here too using Turkey on Windscribe VPN. Annual is only offered in certain countries (Turkey is one of them) but the help section also says it may only be offered the first time you take Premium so that may also be why it isn't offered again.
 
Not looked into it extensively but am I the only one on YouTube getting picture freezing often followed by buffering after 10-20 seconds and shorts having very low bitrate for the first 10-20 seconds? been having it the last 2-3 days but not spent any time checking if it is connection, etc. but all other sites are working fine.
 
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Happening on more than one device and doesn't seem to be Internet connection related as the buffer is usually healthy when it happens.
 
mrochester said:
If it’s profitable for Google to sell YouTube premium for £1.30 in India, why is it not profitable for them to sell it in the UK for £1.30? The UK shouldn’t be expected to subsidise India.
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I expect they'd rather have a presence in India than none, and if they charges the UK price for it in india, a very, very small percentage of current users would keep it, thus reducing their presence and letting competitors in. I suspect even if they're not profiting in India rather loosing out, they're making that profit back from countries like the Uk, rather than balancing it out, but of course, they might believe it's worth it this way us subsiding them because they know they're retaining the % they want in the UK.
 
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I expect they'd rather have a presence in India than none, and if they charges the UK price for it in india, a very, very small percentage of current users would keep it, thus reducing their presence and letting competitors in. I suspect even if they're not profiting in India rather loosing out, they're making that profit back from countries like the Uk, rather than balancing it out, but of course, they might believe it's worth it this way us subsiding them because they know they're retaining the % they want in the UK.
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I think cross subsidisation and selling at a loss deliberately should be illegal and prevented. Consumers can’t accurately assess the value of a product if the true cost is obfuscated. This is why I think advertising funded products should also come with a no advert option with a price tag so that users can make an informed decision about the value of their personal data.
 
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mrochester said:
If it’s profitable for Google to sell YouTube premium for £1.30 in India, why is it not profitable for them to sell it in the UK for £1.30? The UK shouldn’t be expected to subsidise India.
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Currency and tax.

The most powerful currencies will pay more for these services. Not only unique to digital services in the UK.

My Netflix Premium is £6 through Turkey but its cheap because the Turkish Lira is down the toilet compared to the British Pound.
 
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