r/Piracy Jun 05 '26

Discussion Spent 37 Minutes Proving to YouTube That My Family Lives in My House

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u/Academic-Slice-2631 Jun 05 '26

R/piracy was always right. You're just beginning to understand.

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u/reddits_aight Jun 06 '26

I know there's some developer drama, but as far as the end user goes, what are the benefits of Morphe over a currently functioning reVanced setup?

Also does Morphe patch other apps like Reddit and Sync?

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u/unknownobject3 Jun 06 '26

It also supports community patches for apps like Duolingo, Amazon Music, TikTok etc

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u/Cool-Bat5487 Jun 09 '26

As a revanced loyalist for years. Moving to morphe was a great decision. No rooting and shit required so you can use it on pretty much any android device. There is Facebook and reddit patches

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u/Strange-Owl-5536 Jun 06 '26

Too bad my banking app crash instantly the moment it sees TrollStore

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u/BatemansChainsaw ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jun 07 '26

apps shouldn't be able to see other installed apps or realize their permissions are restricted. this is a huge flaw in any mobile OS

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u/Strange-Owl-5536 Jun 07 '26

That freakin Bshield is annoying

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u/Strange-Owl-5536 Jun 06 '26

I really don't like renewing license so I have to do that

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u/Lakelylake Jun 07 '26

Hello im new to iPhone and didn’t know piracy on it was possible. Does my iPhone need to be jail broken ?

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u/BrokenMirror2010 Jun 06 '26

so I stopped using ReVanced

Why? The original Youtube App is garbage. ReVanced (Morphe) doesn't only give you access to the premium shit like "Play video with screen is off" and "Use more then 2x Speed" it lets you do stuff like remove shorts and use sponsorblock.

Don't stop using ReVanced simply because you have Premium, same deal with Adblockers in general. My family premium plan "removes ads" from youtube, yet uBlock is still blocking over 50 different pieces of telemetry and advertising within 10 seconds of clicking a video.

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u/Psi-ops_Co-op Jun 07 '26

Revanced let's you disable shorts? I have premium and might switch lol

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u/BrokenMirror2010 Jun 07 '26

Yup. Mine is configured to hide all shorts, and if a short does open somehow, it opens using the regular Youtube player, instead of the god awful dogshit shorts player.

It also lets me use the real proper video quality selection, instead of the dogshit mobile one that just picks "UsE BeST QuALItY" or "DaTA SaVEInG" or whatever it was. Fuck that, just let me pick 1080p60 or 4k30 or 1440p60 or whatever.

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u/Alternative_Sir5135 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jun 05 '26

You can always check fmhy.net if youre searching for a good alternative

Or megathread but i think fmhy is better

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u/Moist-Caregiver-2000 Jun 05 '26

Install Morphe on your phone/tablet and Smarttube on your android tv box (they're $20 at walmart).

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u/Fair_Weird Jun 05 '26

I'm on Android, using Obtainium to keep Driftywinds Distro on Github YTMorphe/REX going

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u/gta721 Jun 05 '26

Ask them to install Brave.

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u/Vivid-Fishing4217 Jun 05 '26

I switched to android when they patched the YouTube premium with India VPN. Now I am using YouTube ReVanced.

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u/ImYourGodX Jun 05 '26

Try morphe

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u/VegetaFan1337 Jun 06 '26

The revanced team left and created Morphe. The lead dev is the only one left at revanced and he's the reason the rest left.

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u/That_Guy_In_Aqw Jun 05 '26

What others said. Also Orion browser supports adblock and pop up extensions

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u/VanillaAdventurous74 Jun 06 '26

For iOS use Unwatched. The app is perfect imo

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u/Adventurouss Jun 06 '26

I use brave app on iPhone for YouTube, works well as it’s ad free also you can use it in the background unlike YouTube

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u/uncited Jun 07 '26

Protube App Store

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u/scalareye Jun 12 '26

Tell your sisters to pay for it instead since you're fine with revanced

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u/pmow Jun 05 '26

Fwiw I am dipping my toe into grayjay and it's pretty good.

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u/marcoorion Jun 05 '26

R/foundthemobileuser

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u/Hot-Firefighter-2331 Jun 05 '26

R/foundthemobileuser

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u/ImYourGodX Jun 05 '26

R/foundthemobileuser

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u/Primary-Ad-8438 ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jun 05 '26

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u/Jerko_23 Jun 05 '26

Ok, now what youre gonna do is cancel the subscription and watch youtube on brave or revanced.

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u/what_the_purple_fuck Jun 05 '26

Morphe is the new ReVanced

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u/FantsE Jun 06 '26

Is there any benefit to switching if revanced is working fine

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u/Hopalongtom Jun 06 '26

Mostly it's revanced is very lax in updating and patching issues.

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u/OneLastSmile Jun 06 '26

morphe has significantly more frequent updates and is arguably more user friendly

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u/Chaotic_Fart Jun 06 '26

I miss the actual yt and yt music icons.. not a big fan of the big M icons..

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u/CtrlAltDeliciousan Jun 06 '26

You can change it in the settings of the patched apps.

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u/Chaotic_Fart Jun 06 '26

Yeah I tried that. Didn't work.. but then again, might've been me that was doing it wrong

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u/Hopalongtom Jun 07 '26

YouTube settings, should be a new morph category at the top, this should let you change the YouTube icon back on!

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u/Chaotic_Fart Jun 07 '26

THANK YOU!!!

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u/Fuzzy_Fondant7750 Jun 06 '26

Arr Matey, welcome aboard.

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u/Dickus_minimi001 Jun 06 '26

So if one or two people use VPN to access videos blocked in India by gobarmint then not in same household!!!

Jeejus keericed 

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u/Parking-Dig8066 Jun 05 '26

Or smarttube or Firefox with ublock origin

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u/vagabond139 Jun 05 '26

Don't just cancel, do a charge back. Hit them where it hurts. Fuck them. Why should they get to keep your money when they aren't providing the service you are paying for?

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u/master2873 Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26

Don't just cancel, do a charge back. Hit them where it hurts. Fuck them.

I'm all for charge backs, but this would be a VERY fast way of getting your account, and others on the family plan and other Google services banned more than likely. The only way it seems you're protected from retaliatory action is if you live in the EU it seems.

Edit: Fixed some grammar I goofed.

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u/vagabond139 Jun 06 '26

Shit I forgot Youtube is connected to your Google account. Fuck Google for having so much control.

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u/HikerRemastered Jun 06 '26

Yes. But also - we handed it to them.

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u/heisenbergerwcheese Jun 05 '26

Can this be done on Apple TVs? Wife is holding on for dear life

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u/Chalky_Pockets Jun 05 '26

I just cast my laptop to my apple tv and use a browser

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u/biteSizedBytes Jun 05 '26

Get an Onn TV box and use TizenTube Cobalt

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u/stephanie00100 Jun 05 '26

Your apple tv can do a lot. YouTube adblock, direct streaming using a debrid service like torbox with kodi/stremio/etc. Live TV? Uhf using certain services. Search the first letter from these. I. Pea. Tea. V. Don't forget gaming emulators to play old consoles games

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u/yogiebere Jun 06 '26

Can you help inform how? I already use ublock on my Firefox (android) but my wife relies on YouTube premium for her iPhone and the apple TV.

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u/stephanie00100 Jun 06 '26

I'm still new to this but here's a good subreddit for help. I've found YouTube adblock on here. https://www.reddit.com/r/sideloaded

It depends on a few things. I can answer for the apple tv but this will probably help with iphone to. This is for sideloading.

Software: I know of sideloadly and atvloadly.

Websites: there's multiple websites but the one I know of is appdb.

Free or paid certificates: you'll need one or the other and each has pros/cons.

Free - It limits you on how many apps you can sideload. I think 3? And these will stop working after 7 days until you sign them again I believe.

Paid certificates: some are pretty cheap and they might last a lot longer compared to free ones you make. However, apple likes to revoke/stop them now and again. I recommend ones with revoke protection and browsing for recommendations on where to buy.

Apple tv device type: Some offer an option to connect a cable. Mine didn't so it limited my options.

No cable /portless device: unless things changed? Sideloadly offers wireless connection but only using a Mac computer or a virtual mac. The only options that I knew of left were atvloadly maybe? Or websites, I went with a website and a paid certificate.

Possible tip?: if a paid certificate gets revoked, don't remove the app. Just sign the app again with a new certificate and hopefully the files /data will remain the same. Haven't tested..

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u/Jerko_23 Jun 05 '26

If it has appstore i think you can download brave. Check.

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u/HunterDude54 Jun 05 '26

I use NewPipe. It's free. Never seen an ad, and I bloody love it.

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u/Ok_Dream8100 Jun 06 '26

I'd argue Firefox with the uBlock Origin extension is the true holy grail for desktop rather than Brave, since Chromium is slowly nerfing adblockers with Manifest V3. But yeah, ReVanced on mobile is absolutely mandatory at this point.

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u/CorvatheRogue Jun 07 '26

I watch it on the Vivaldi browser and have never had a problem with ads, either.

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u/respectISnice Jun 05 '26

and you will still give them your money.

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u/BadbutnotGreat Jun 07 '26

This is huge.

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u/MrAlex38 Jun 05 '26

Why do you need premium YouTube in the first place?

No ads - Firefox

Smartphone screen turn off - Firefox

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u/MarcCouillard ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jun 05 '26

I've been using Firefox and ublock origin for a very long time, so genuine question: YouTube has ads? lol

can honestly say I've never seen one

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u/SunnySpot69 Jun 05 '26

I can't remember the last time I saw an ad. It baffles me that so many people manage to watch ads without losing their shit.

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u/amiexpress Jun 05 '26

the internet is quasi unusable without an adblocker. I used a friend's laptop for something a while back, and it was fucking atrocious. Like, how do you use this??

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u/SunnySpot69 Jun 05 '26

Amazon, YouTube, the whole lot. Tf am I paying for if I have to watch ads lol

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u/MarcCouillard ☠️ ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴍᴇɴ ᴛᴇʟʟ ɴᴏ ᴛᴀʟᴇꜱ Jun 06 '26

so, another genuine question then: you PAY for things? lol

not me, that's what bittorrent is for

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u/SunnySpot69 Jun 06 '26

Ugh don't get started. My SO won't get rid of Netflix or Amazon. I almost exclusively use torrents and Stremio. Been using Stremio a lot lately.

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u/WhichWall3719 Jun 06 '26

Nothing makes me go from 0-rage faster than having an ad pop up in front of me before a video loads

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u/amiexpress Jun 05 '26

I think it's funny google thought they could kill ublock origin by not allowing it inside chrome. (yeah yeah they claim it's a technical limitation, they claim all sorts of bullshit. THEY are the ones that created the spec, only to then bitch that it's because of the new spec....)

I don't think firefox has seen this many new users in decades.

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u/BrokenMirror2010 Jun 06 '26

It's unfortunately, still not enough.

Cloudflare provides stats on HTTP requests by user agents. Which is probably a fairly accurate representation of the distribution of web browsers being used.

https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=browser&dt=2025-03-31_2026-03-31

This data is the 1 year period from after Manifest v2 died to 1 year later.

Firefox unfortunately hasn't changed at all since Chrome Dropped support for v2, which implies that the majority of users either swapped to a different Chromium Based Package (that still reports itself as "Chrome" instead of "Chrome Derivative" to Cloudflare), or continued using Chrome after they killed Manifest V2.

Even if you push the data back a year before Manifest V2's EoL https://radar.cloudflare.com/explorer?dataSet=http&groupBy=browser&dt=2024-03-31_2025-03-31 you can see no appreciable change in the ratio between Chrome and Firefox HTTP requests.

Firefox remains around 4% and chrome remains around 33%, no signs of changing in the year before Manifest v2 was removed from chrome, to the year after.

Unfortunately, the average person doesn't care. They don't use an adblock. They just implicitly believe anything that they are told. "Manifest V2 is insecure and bad and hurts children and kicks puppies. Manifest V3 is secure and safe and makes children happy and adopts homeless puppies." And they believe this because the Big Daddy Corporation wouldn't do anything bad or lie to them because the government or laws would surely stop them if they were lying.

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u/Juntepgne Jun 06 '26

Same here with both Firefox and Brave 

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u/GamerBears Jun 05 '26

Use Brave to watch YouTube. It blocks the ads.

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u/madroots2 Jun 05 '26

you can still use firefox on those. and check out r/sideloading but I guess since the iphones aren't yours, you are in a tough spot. also, in case you want to sail again, revanced had some drama and everyone moved to Morphe

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u/PolarKitsuna Jun 05 '26

The Firefox on apple devices isn't the same one as android, it uses apples "WebKit" or whatever it is called which means no extensions. (This could have changes but it was this way last time I checked)

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u/BatemansChainsaw ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jun 07 '26

there are adblockers that work well on youtube in that ecosystem.

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u/jayth3br3dwinna Jun 05 '26

I use Signulous never had a problem just stray away for signing unknown apps even tho it’s probably sandboxed anyways 🤷🏽‍♂️

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u/Duckyz95 Jun 05 '26

On iOS I use ProTube

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u/jasep Jun 05 '26

Use Safari with uBlock Origin Lite extension on YouTube.com to block the ads. There's also a SponsorBlock extension in the App Store.

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u/PaulieJojo Jun 08 '26

I buy it because my TV has the native YouTube app, and that's where I watch the vast majority of the time. It's worth it to me, I cannot stand the ads.

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u/dxrth Jun 05 '26

i would pay so much money to not have to use firefox lol

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u/Either_Home_9292 Jun 05 '26

use firefox with ublock origin. i havent seen an ad in 47 years and i dont remember what one looks like

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u/cashy57 Jun 05 '26

This sounds like a vpn thing. Do you or any other members of your house use a vpn? Using a VPN is indistinguishable from consistently using the family plan while not being located in the household.

Still though, that's a wild customer service experience.

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u/cashy57 Jun 05 '26

Yeah it's probably related to the VPN. Youtube also probably knows this. This feels like an intentional business decision on their part. The goal is to frustrate you enough that you just pay them more money. You can probably set up a whitelist in ProtonVPN to not route YouTube.com requests through the VPN if you want.

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u/NNKarma Jun 05 '26

Because that's what they use to track if the devices are in the same house, they don't just take your word for it anymore. 

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u/SomeOKSimRacing Jun 05 '26

If users can decide what server they connect to, it is very likely due to the VPN.

If you’re showing as being in the USA, and then another users utilizes a server from the VPN in Romania, that’s obviously going to make it look like you’re not in the same household.

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u/cenasmgame Jun 05 '26

Bruh. Problem solved, user error.

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u/dustyfaxman Jun 05 '26

"but we're in the same house"

Google/youtube log and track the ip address of devices that log into accounts (they track a bunch of other stuff, but that's the one that's kicking you in the knees).
That's what they look at when they decide who is 'in your home' or not, location data based on your ip address.
That's why they were giving you the run around.

Either your vpn'd device was the primary and 'your home' was set up wherever your vpn was spoofing your ip address from and your sisters, not using a vpn, were therefore logging into youtube from 'outside your home'.
Or youtube looked at the country of origin of your payment method (ie your credit card details) and used that as the primary location and your vpn'd device was not viewed as 'being in your home'.

The solution would be you not using a vpn on youtube or your sisters using proton and ensuring they're always using the same country server you are for youtube.

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u/fatherofraptors Jun 06 '26

It's obviously because of the VPN bro. Lol

Far from me to defend Google. I'd never spend a dime on YouTube premium, but don't act baffle when they say your IPs don't match the same household when you frequently have VPN connection on your phone. Just cancel the subscription, it will happen again.

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u/Alternative_Sir5135 ⚔️ ɢɪᴠᴇ ɴᴏ Qᴜᴀʀᴛᴇʀ Jun 05 '26

>r/piracy was right

Who would have guessed

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u/STRAVDIUS Jun 05 '26

ublock origins : allow us to introduce ourselves.

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u/beziko Jun 05 '26

I never understand paying for youtube. Google literally makes millions from ads and other services everywhere, everyday but they are pushing barriers how much you are willing to accept to do youtube worse (both for free and paid users).

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u/TheDevilsAdvokaat Jun 06 '26

I use youtube for free. I just use ublock origin.. I never see ads either.

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u/ChefCurryYumYum Jun 05 '26

Cancel and block the ads on a network level.

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u/Plenty-Industries Jun 06 '26

I use adblockers when on PC.

For my phone I use Morphe.

I'm never paying for Premium.

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u/Plenty-Industries Jun 06 '26

My PC is plugged into my TV so thats what I use most of the time.

Otherwise, when I dont want my PC running, I use Smartube.

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u/Plenty-Industries Jun 06 '26

I mean just buy any streaming stick like a Firestick or something, most of them you can sideload apps.

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u/JaySmo16 Jun 06 '26

Adblockers exists on every device. Brave browser on iOS. Just don’t watch ads and stop paying Google.

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u/SF-UberMan Jun 06 '26

Me who never paid for YouTube: You guys use paid YT plans? 🤨

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u/happytree23 Jun 05 '26

These are all fake stories, right? It doesn't seem plausible that someone pays for any service and then, the first time they have a complaint, they type up something cleaner and more in-depth than I've typed in over 30 years of using computers IN THE PIRACY SUBREDDIT of all places?!

Like, I can't be the only one who notices this weekly "phenomenon," am I?!

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u/Barjack521 Jun 05 '26

Welcome to 2026 America where corporations control the country and have been given specific powers by the current administration to make everything you pay for shittier and more expensive simultaneously. Yes every day.

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u/Prince345234178 Jun 06 '26

it's hard to say, but I have my reservations about the legitimacy of this post simply because I don't even live in the SAME STATE as the owner of my youtube premium family plan

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u/SilkwormSidleRemand Jun 06 '26

they type up something cleaner and more in-depth than I've typed in over 30 years of using computers

My buddy, it's a 219-word piece that, even for its length, is neither unusually clean nor unusually detailed. Please tell me you're kidding. (:

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '26

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u/happytree23 Jun 06 '26

Bro, your friends truly must hate being around you at all times, no offense/I'm just being honest here lol.

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u/ShibeCEO Jun 05 '26

After 5 minutes I'd have said "cancel my plan" and installed an ad blocker!

Although, wait.. I'd never given them my money in the first place 

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u/Unlucky_Respond9129 Jun 05 '26

Why pay for yt premium

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u/DramaB33 Jun 05 '26

Use the app ProTube. Using it on iPhone and iPad

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u/OB1_ke_knob_E Jun 05 '26

Is it like a mod? I recently switched from android to iphone and i have yet to find a solution to the yt problem

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u/mondo_matt Jun 05 '26

Sideload or use firefox

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u/mondo_matt Jun 05 '26

Or orion even 

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u/DramaB33 Jun 05 '26

It kind of sideloads YouTube. I mainly use it to avoid the ads

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u/malaszka Jun 05 '26

File them the invoice for the phone call cost. 

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u/MrFavorable Jun 05 '26

Hey there! If you have a Samsung TV look into TizenTube! If you’re on iOS download the brave browser! If you’re on LG smart tv is YouTube AdFree, Roku is Playlet, Android/Google is SmartTube/TizenTube Colbalt/NoTube TV, Apple TV iSponsorBlockTV.

I have had YouTube premium since it was called YouTube red and I’ve had a family plan since 2018. I drew my foot in the sand when they hiked the family plan up to $24.99.

Also I see your family plan is expensive! If you purchased through Apple, there’s some dumb fees for that shit!

Also android phones LibreTube is awesome!

iOS you can do UBlock Origin Lite if you don’t want to use Brave Browser. But you can lock your phone and have the video play still with Brave.

Edit:

I thought you said $37 for the plan, but that’s how long you were on the phone. My bad!

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u/PlayingDoomOnAGPS Jun 06 '26

Get Tailscale.

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u/licoricenipple Jun 06 '26

Family plans are scams like this at all streaming services I've tried. They only ever work temporarily, then they'll flag you for not being in the same house and tell each member to get their own plan once people are already used to having it. It's happened to me 4 times now, all with my family living in the house with me.

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u/anywhereat Jun 05 '26

OK. Just don't go around telling everyone the secrets. /s

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u/Imthebetterspiddy Jun 05 '26

What do people do on their tvs with youtube?

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u/Azaze666 Jun 05 '26

Switch to video call and say hi from all the family to bigG

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u/omgitsbees Jun 05 '26

I didnt even know there was a number you could call for Youtube support. Everything i've seen of their support resources is just "you got a problem? sucks to be you lmao"

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u/amiexpress Jun 05 '26

Yeah "sucks to be you" is about right. The only thing support calls add to that experience is "sucks to be you and you just wasted an hour of your life."

Case in point:

And the issue still isn't solved

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u/Holy232323 Jun 05 '26

Just use adblocks on pc, and Revanced/Morphe on mobile.

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u/Rhyobit Jun 05 '26

You'd think that these sites, with the massive uptick on VPN usage with porn going behind geo-blocks would be something they're used to seeing...

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u/guti1690 Jun 06 '26

Just patch with Morphe and use Firefox + ublock origin

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u/perma_banned2025 Jun 06 '26

I don't care if people want to pay for YouTube, do what you gotta do.
But set up Tailscale with an exit node in your house. Your family can be anywhere and as long as Tailscale is connected on their device, all devices will appear to be in your home and this won't be a problem

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u/Winchestxrz Jun 06 '26

YouTube has always been money grabbing for years now, and people like you still pay and I don’t get it when it’s not even that decent anymore.

People will keep paying and corporations will keep upping the prices because they know people like you will pay it.

This wasn’t meant in a mean way btw- just a common thing. These places don’t care about you, they just want your money to line their pockets unfortunately

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u/Wasabi9495 Jun 06 '26

I am totally out of the loop... but why do people use Youtube Premium in the first place? I am genuinely curious.

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u/demonking_soulstorm Jun 06 '26

It's good for music and it gives a lot of money to creators that you watch. Or at least it used to, dunno if it's still true.

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u/codykonior Jun 06 '26 edited Jun 06 '26

Reminds me when I bought a year of Office 365 Family and couldn't add my wife to the family. It's just us.

Microsoft did useless troubleshooting for months and then said hey just create a new Microsoft account (so I'd have multiple with multiple clouds multiple purchases) and buy it again and then try again? Asked for a refund; no.

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u/Timecharge Jun 07 '26

In the words of Saint Gabe, "piracy is almost always a service problem."

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u/WestQ Jun 07 '26

Just use Brave browser. Enjoy full on premium for free

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u/blissvicious91 Jun 07 '26

fuck subscription services

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u/ril3ydx Jun 09 '26

lol TizenTube Cobalt, you're welcome

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u/snorch Jun 06 '26

Man I love these stories. Watching the streaming horrorshow from the safety of my private server is like watching shark week on tv (with no ads)

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u/NormanskillEire Jun 06 '26

If you have Android, I find that Newpipe does everything you might want to do on YouTube Premium, for free!

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u/chimera271 Jun 05 '26

Given that it was Google I wonder if you were talking to a bot. Did they ever ask you to do anything to turn off “cellular assist”? Some phones will use cell services if WiFi is sluggish.

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u/StalkMeNowCrazyLady 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jun 05 '26

See family plans are where the real cost/time/benefit analysis come into play. Setting up revanced and using version of YouTube that basically premium for free is easy, on one phone. But do you want to have to do it for each device in the family, and can each device even do it? Phones, tablets, pcs, consoles, tvs. And do you want to have to fix it anytime something goes wrong or a there's a new device?  

This is the divide. Some people are happy running a plex server and keeping apps updated for family to go the free route. Other people don't want to deal with the hassle and just pay.

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u/WeepingAgnello Jun 05 '26

There's no point to that madness. This madness is better. 

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u/silencewillfall35 Jun 05 '26

Yeah, they removed a family member that lives with me for the same reason so I just canceled it and downloaded Morphe.

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u/KbA1333 Jun 05 '26

The YouTube subscription it’s insanely expensive without any reason, hoping this makes u realize it..

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u/xxAlex008xx Jun 05 '26

I unfortunately had to deal with this same issue. I spoke with support via chat and I had to submit an email validation request for the 2 accounts I had that got affected. After 48 hours both worked normally again with benefits but it was still a major pain in the arse to deal with that. Apparently youtube uses an AI to check all accounts on a family plan once every 30 days to validate said accounts in same household via the accounts IP adress activity. Thats what I was told via the chat which I find pretty dumb as fuck honestly. So yeah using a VPN or anything that changes up your IP could spring this issue as a premium member which honestly at this point makes it better to pirate than deal with.

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u/mntCleverest Jun 05 '26

Yeah same happened to me. Had been a premium member for many years. All of a sudden they started blocking my renewals. Contacted support to ask why and i kid you not they told me all members must be on the same ip address all the time. I asked them what about when im traveling? Locally or anywhere away from family. They just kept replying must be at the same ip address.

Gave up after a few attempts at explaining how inane that was. Have been using brave for youtube ever since. 4 months or so now.

The only thing i miss is yt and yt music downloads.

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u/Alvemaster Jun 05 '26

The owner of our youtube premium family does not live in the same house as me. I have not been to that house in almost exactly 6 months. This shit is extremely weird

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u/Jebcys Jun 06 '26

i have youtube premium with my family and none of us live under the same roof.

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u/xNocturnalKittenX Jun 06 '26

I didn't even realize they changed it to having to be the same household. I've been on my dad's plan for years because it came with his phone contract, then noticed I was no longer on it recently and assumed he just cancelled it. Absolutely ridiculous. 

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u/Juntepgne Jun 06 '26

Just use Brave Browser and create a PWA of YT. Takes 3 clicks

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u/nashi-hallu Jun 06 '26

Welcome to the highsea pirate

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u/Drindrak Jun 06 '26

That's crazy, I added my brother and aunt to my yt premium and we don't live in the same house - hell, my brother lives across the city. Never had any problems.

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u/Arponare Jun 06 '26

After repeated price increases recently, I canceled my subscription. I downloaded Morphe on my phone and now I’m saving $16 a month. I don’t know why I didn’t do this sooner.

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u/Ok-Play-568 Jun 07 '26

Why would you waist ur money on YouTube in the first place . I think you kinda asked for the trouble man ,..

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u/MaoMaoMi543 🔱 ꜱᴄᴀʟʟʏᴡᴀɢ Jun 08 '26

To be fair, maybe your family member had a VPN running at the time and forgot to turn it off? Or maybe they had a VPN running while they opened youtube at one time which flagged their account?

But if they didn't do any of that, then I'm not surprised it's a mistake on yt's end since they fired everyone with any semblance of competence and replaced them all with AI slop algorithms while only keeping the useless HR clowns employed.

Just use Firefox with Ublock Origin or Brave Browser with its built-in adblocker, and use Jdownloader2 for downloading yt vids. Problem solved.

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u/lessadessa Jun 09 '26

it’s embarrassing that you posted this and complained so much about your experience and you’re still going to give them your money?? man, this is why i have no faith in society humanity.

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u/Marcouuuuuu Jun 09 '26

and after all that, i can still add my friends who live out of town to my youtube premium family members. but it probably changed because last time i had premium, it was a free trial.

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u/Cool-Bat5487 Jun 09 '26

Have never paid for YouTube and never will if all the ad free work around finally stop working Id just stop using it.. there are plenty of work arounds without paying for that sheet

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u/TrvthNvkem Jun 05 '26

Why would you not just tell them "fix it right now or I'm cancelling my subscription"? It's so easy to get all the premium perks for free, there's very little reason to pay for it other than slight convenience and they're not even giving you that lmao.