Streaming consolidator needed?

[Admiral Beez]

I pay for YT. It's well worth it for the kind of content available and it is useful for downloading podcasts/long form content and listening while driving, walking, doing chores. Also comes with music streaming. I share a family plan with my parents.

Isn’t sharing the new stealing?

 

[afransen]

Isn’t sharing the new stealing?

The family plan includes 5 google accounts.

 

[Jonny5]

YouTube ad blockers still work. Just update yours.

I did update and it works still, though I feel this was more of an experiment to see what would happen, and I'm quite sure the folks at Google know how to torch all of the adblockers any time if they really wanted to.

I did see this article that the limited adblocking attempt apparently caused huge swaths of people to uninstall them, which may satiate them for now.

YouTube’s Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls of Ad Blockers

YouTube expanded a “test” that threatens to cut off users who don't turn off their ad blocker. Developers of the tools are scrambling to respond.

www.wired.com

 

[DreamyCloud]

I pay for YT. It's well worth it for the kind of content available and it is useful for downloading podcasts/long form content and listening while driving, walking, doing chores. Also comes with music streaming. I share a family plan with my parents.

I just want to confirm that my understanding is correct. I plan on subscribing to YouTube Music to remove the ads on music, but I think that subscription will only cover music, not videos. However, if I subscribe to YouTube Premium, that will also remove ads on videos and music?

 

[afransen]

I just want to confirm that my understanding is correct. I plan on subscribing to YouTube Music to remove the ads on music, but I think that subscription will only cover music, not videos. However, if I subscribe to YouTube Premium, that will also remove ads on videos and music?

Yes.

 

[DreamyCloud]

Yes.

Thank you, @afransen

 

[Admiral Beez]

I'm quite sure the folks at Google know how to torch all of the adblockers any time if they really wanted to.

IMO, those who create the Adblock apps either work at Google or used to. It’s like computer viruses, I always figured the guys making the viruses had day jobs at McAfee or Norton.

 

[Admiral Beez]

I haven't had cable in 16 years and I'm not subscribing again even though it's $0 at Manulife. I have Prime, Apple+, Crave and Disney but we rarely watch more than an hour of TV a day.

I’ve today canceled Prime, and bought an annual sub to Britbox for $79. Well worth it, the Brits have such better TV.

 

[DSC]

I’ve today canceled Prime, and bought an annual sub to Britbox for $79. Well worth it, the Brits have such better TV.

Based on my own experience and that of friends, you will be cancelling BritBox after your year is up and the 'distant fields' of other services will then seem greener. The Brits certainly used to have lots of great TV but, in my opinion, not nearly so much now.

 

[PinkLucy]

I’m still using Britbox over a year in. Just watched the latest season of Shetland and looking forward to Unforgotten

 

[Admiral Beez]

I’m still using Britbox over a year in. Just watched the latest season of Shetland and looking forward to Unforgotten

In the middle of season 7 of Shetland. Apparently if accurately portrayed, at nearly 70 homicides per 100,000 people, Shetland would be the 11th most dangerous place on earth.

Actor Douglas Henshall says TV show Shetland turned island into murder capital

ACTOR Douglas Henshall admits hit TV show Shetland has turned the island into a murder capital — despite it being one of the safest places to live. The 52-year-old — who plays DI Jimmy Perez — is a…

www.thescottishsun.co.uk

We could have a Canadian version, CSI Charlottetown. A local spud farmer is found buried under a pile of manure. Chief suspect is the neighbour‘s Dad, leading RCMP Constable Macdonald asking the neighbour, “Who's your fadder?”

 

[Admiral Beez]

The Brits certainly used to have lots of great TV but, in my opinion, not nearly so much now.

It’s the old stuff I like most. In the days before political correctness, British tv was cracking good. When I watch On the Buses, Are You Being Served or Keeping Up Appearances I am transported to my youth in 1970s London and as a newly arrived Brit in late 1970s Mississauga.

 

[PinkLucy]

In the middle of season 7 of Shetland. Apparently if accurately portrayed, at nearly 70 homicides per 100,000 people, Shetland would be the 11th most dangerous place on earth.

Actor Douglas Henshall says TV show Shetland turned island into murder capital

ACTOR Douglas Henshall admits hit TV show Shetland has turned the island into a murder capital — despite it being one of the safest places to live. The 52-year-old — who plays DI Jimmy Perez — is a…

www.thescottishsun.co.uk

Same with Midsomer Murders, which recently launched yet another season. They even made a joke about it in one episode.

 

[afransen]

I’m still using Britbox over a year in. Just watched the latest season of Shetland and looking forward to Unforgotten

If you like these, try Karen Pirie, Traces, Annika, etc. I have a soft spot for British crime shows.

 

[afransen]

Same with Midsomer Murders, which recently launched yet another season. They even made a joke about it in one episode.

Kind of like Langmire. It's set in Montana and the amount of mayhem one sherriff has to deal with is really something.