Technology @lemmy.world Companion1666 @lemmy.world 1y ago

What the heck, YouTube?

I've only subscribed to YouTube Premium for the past two months, and I like the ad-free experience and Music streaming bundled in one price, PHP159 or $3/month. Will this probably my last? Yesterday morning, Google automatically charged me for my YouTube Premium subscription through my e-wallet service.

It was successfully deducted, but the service didn't update its validity. Does Google want me to charge twice, or they want me to go back on uBlock Origin on Librewolf (desktop) and NewPipe on Android? lol

EDIT (2023-10-22): Google recently refunded the amount to my e-wallet. So far, my account is still active. If ever Google bans my account, then probably my domain will be banned.

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Just go back to uBlock Origin. No reason to give Google more money, they don't respect their customers.
- you're not their customer, the ad companies are.
  
  And this is exactly why I will never pay for Premium (again; I unfortunately did for a while) or any other Google service
  
  true, we're the product offered to ad companies
- No reason
  
  I have reason: Costs. Recently in my region, Spotify racked their price from ₱129 to ₱149, ₱10 difference with YouTube Premium.
  
  Plus, Spotify keeps shoving their podcast platform on my feed, which is annoying, and I'm only streaming music. I rather see or listen to something from my followed channels.
  
  P.S. I only created a Google account just for YouTube and for my Android device, nothing else. I don't use other mainstream Google products.
  
  Wait until you hear that podcasts are gonna come to YouTube Music
- I primarily use iOS to watch YouTube. I haven’t found good solutions.
  
  It’s the media platform I use the most. With Premium, I’m evenly supporting at least 50 creators that I watch regularly. I couldn’t meaningfully do that for the same price through Patreon.
  
  The best solution I’ve found for the YouTube shenanigans on iOS is the baking soda and vinegar apps.
  
  Sideload uYou plus with Altstore if you want to keep all the account functionality.
  
  Download Yattee from the App store if you prefer to watch with Piped.
  
  Sideload an alternative YouTube app with Altstore
  
  I have had success from both Safari with AdGuard and from Brave browser blocking Youtube ads on iOS. Currently using Brave with no issues.
Do not issue a chargeback through your bank if you care about your Google account. They will close it. Talk to Google to resolve the payment issue.
- I'm not even using my bank's debit card as my Google's payment method. I linked my e-wallet account to my Google account.
  
  I don't risk my bank's savings.
  
  It's not about your bank account, it's about google possibly banning your google account if you do a chargeback. If you don't care about losing your google account, then you're fine.
  
  Google permabans accounts immediately for chargebacks
It was successfully deducted, but the service didn't update its validity.

You paid them real money. So they have to answer properly what they did and eventually fix it.
Switch to firefox with ublock origin. Its more than heaven 🔥🔥
- I'm on ungoogled-chromium. Librewolf keeps breaking a website I frequently visits.
  
  Librewolf != Firefox, fwiw.
  
  I haven't encountered these issues with Librewolf. What kind of websites are breaking?
  
  Its a security certificate issue. It can be solved via about:config. security.OCSP.require set to false
- ...It's West Virginia?
revanced and smartubenext
Ublock on Desktop GreyJay on mobile
- And SmartTube for Android TV / Google TV devices.

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