This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
People buy a pile of rotting shit and then wonder why it stinks.
I finally gave up when they started blanking out my home page as I turned off history... I don't even miss it
Gotta give it to them. They are extremely innovative in coming up with ways of enshitifying stuff.
I just got a notification that Amazon Prime is doing the same with grandafathered accounts allowed across households.
Run a personal VPN server at the home address and have external users route through it. I'd think it'd work for any subscription service doing this crap. I'm surprised nobody has started selling a turnkey self-hosted VPN device that even a non-techie can get running in a few steps - all the end users would need is an app that does split tunneling for the media players.
Amazon is doing the exact same thing. Just got an email today that they're shutting down the family Prime sharing thing. Had that for ten years now.
It's always nice when the garbage takes itself out. And if you're inconvenienced, I feel for you, but the writing has been on the wall for years. They will keep trying to suck more money out of you every way they can until you cancel your subscription, and because that's going to happen in the end, why not cancel it today.
"There aren't enough seeds for these AI training data torrents we've been downloading. Anybody got any ideas?"
Well fuck. It never crossed my mind that YouTube would do this since I don’t view it the same as other traditional streaming services. This will really suck for my friends who I’ve happily let mooch off my plan for years.
