My credit card has expired and thus my youtube premium with it.
I received some alerts from YT before it happened and now the subscription has been terminated and the first video I watched without the premium had 3 ads in 5 minutes.
3 ads. In 5 minutes.
I’m disgusted. My hatred towards the greedy corporations has been gradually exceeding the boiling point for the past couple of years and now I experienced how YouTube tries to force it’s users to pay the tribute.
I’m using YT a lot so I’d take no issue paying if it just improved the experience, but not if it’s the only way to use the “free” app. I’m not gonna get my money extorted by a fucking corporation.
Fuck them, intalling ReVanced now.
Even then it’s still android store apps, and incredibly hard to side load.
Oh, and if you didn’t know, the shield now displays ads all over the place, even the app selection screen. Yes, the $300 piece of hardware throws ads in your face and there is no way to control the behavior.
You can install a different launcher. I use Projectivy