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[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] khanas1f@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Pika@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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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