I had been paying for YouTube Premium for about six years because I fell for the trap when I bought my S9 at launch. (in fairness, I do spend an extreme amount of time a year watching YouTube so at the time it did make cost-effective sense) They gave two years of YouTube premium as a benefit of getting it then I never cancelled. I finally canceled about five or six months ago because the price I had been paying originally was close to $10 a month. I had over the years jumped up to almost 18 a month and a little while I had survived ongoing on a student discount. But when the student discount plan jumped to almost $12 a month, I said screw this, cancelled and installed grayjay and tizentube/tizentube cobalt.
this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2026
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Any reason I should go for grayjay instead of Morphe? In context of youtube since I don't use any other video streaming platform that Grayjay offers.
I have never used morphe so I couldn't tell you, but I like how grayjay let's me make playlists and download offline across multiple platforms while still allowing sign in, plus, I know a lot of people won't like this, but I do like the ability that it still allows to give me personalized results, which is something that I noticed the other YouTube front ends don't do without workarounds. it also gives me those personalized results across all platforms.
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I paid for premium until I started getting ads out of nowhere. YouTube changed their policy to include ads in my previously ad-free package.
I cancelled and started using smartTube f-droid. It has sponsor block integrated. Auto-skips all ads, not just the ones injected by YouTube.
Newpipe user for many years. Started to donate some small amount on a regular base. Totally worth it, still way cheaper than YT Premium and money doesn't go to big tech.
PipePipe is a fork of Newpipe that has more features (such as SponsorBlock) and gets fixes faster whenever YouTube changes something.
Not for me it's not!
Currently I‘m sharing a premium family subscription with as many users as Google allows which is like 6€ for each user.
If Google ever cracks down on sharing or this gets much more expensive (because even 6€ is too much IMO) we’re probably just gonna cancel the subscription altogether.
They did crack down on my family. They realized we were all at different IPs and cut us off.
I have my sub shared across a couple different families in 4 different houses, in 2 different states. If they crack down, I'm dropping my subscription.
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My whole family uses my google account with a grandfathered $7.99 price from the GPM days lol. I'm fairly certain they lose money on us.
They make up what you think is a loss by harvesting your data.
no, they aren't losing anything.
they don't take in as much
there is a huge different.
Kind of unrelated but youtube adds new free movies all the time. Sometimes over 100 per day...other days 15. This site shows all newly added movies:
https://www.justwatch.com/us/provider/youtube-free/new/movies