• delmain@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    My counterpoint to yours: YouTube Premium is not available in all countries.

    Beyond that, I personally used YouTube Red for years until they killed Google Play Music. I was an avid user of GPM, had several playlists and radios tuned there, and when they announced the move to YT Music, I was hesitant but gave them until literally the last minute to add the features from GPM that didn’t exist on YTM, but they never did.

    I cancelled my YouTube Red subscription the day that the GPM app on my phone said it wouldn’t work again, and on that day I swore I’d never pay YT another penny directly.

    • Jeena@jemmy.jeena.net
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      1 year ago

      Yes that’s really bad that they don’t offer it in all countries. I’m in luck that I lived in those countries they do offer it. But even that, once I moved to Korea, they don’t allow YT Premium Family here. I guess it’s some Korean Law thing, they have very extreme laws when it comes to IT here, Google Maps doesn’t work, etc. Anyway until now they didn’t mind that I used My dad’s computer in Germany to circumvent it. But yeah, one day they will come after me, I’m sure.

    • dan@upvote.au
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      1 year ago

      Same with me. I loved Google Play Music and was sad when they killed it. YouTube Music still isn’t as good. I ended up ripping a bunch of old CDs, setting up my own Plex server, and using Plexamp for music streaming instead.