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What subscription finally gave you "subscription fatigue"? (poptalk.scrubbles.tech)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Learned the term recently and really enjoy it, subscription fatigue is the feeling we all have had now where we are just over how everything is subscription based.

Which one was the last straw or most annoying/frustrating to you?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (3 children)

I'm still grandfathered in from the Google Play Music days, paying $7.99/mo for YT Music + YT Premium. I will never interrupt that subscription and lose that price, haha.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

You likely lose that price in December. I got an email telling me so and I believe it applies to all of us grandfathered in. Here's the relevant part of the email:

As a long-standing and valued member, you are currently paying a lower rate for Premium than the rate available to new subscribers. To show our appreciation for your loyalty, we're giving you at least three extra months at your current price before the price increase will impact your plan. Your price will not increase before your December billing date. Don’t worry, we’ll be sure to notify you again at least 30 days before the new price is effective.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Hmm, what was the subject of that email? I don't see one like that, but I want to be sure.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

"YouTube Premium Price Update"

July 20

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Yeah, interesting, I don't have that email. I guess I'll find out if my subscription rate increases in December!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Use InnerTune and you can drop the price to 0 ;-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Pardon my ignorance, I don’t mean to insult, but how does a python library drop the price to zero? Do you have your own app built using this library?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I'm sorry, I could've been more clear. There is an app called InnerTune (F-Droid is an app store on Android that contains only free/open source software) which lets you stream and download all of yt music for free. You can also use the website beatbump.io to stream.

Youtube Premium is also unnecessary when you use the adblocker Ublock Origin on Firefox. On Android, NewPipe is also a great app to watch and download the videos ad-free.

That is possible because Google badly protects its content APIs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Huh, thanks for the info! I will definitely need to read up on all this.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

*legacied

The term grandfathered in has a pretty fucked racist origin.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Had to investigate, and turns out you're right about the origin. The original grandfather clause was meant to exempt blacks from voting. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandfather_clause

I'm not a fan of term banning, however. We still use the number 9 even though Hitler said it a lot.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Yeah but Hitler did not create the number 9. Slight difference. There is also no other term to express the number 9.

Legacied means the exact same thing and does not have the racist origin. There is certainly no ban on using 'grandfathered in' but there is no real reason to use it since it does not convey anything that the term legacied already does.