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Google Play can go straight to hell. (lemm.ee)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by orphiebaby@lemm.ee to c/degoogle@lemmy.ml
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I was trying to change my primary YouTube/Google account while still holding onto my Movies & TV purchases.

  1. You can't change the email address associated with your YouTube account or Google Play Movies & TV purchases.
  2. You can't transfer your purchases to a new Google account.
  3. There is a way to create a Google Play family account, but it's so buried and un-obvious that it takes search engine research to accidentally discover that this is an option.
  4. Once you create your family account, apparently some purchases can't be shared due to how they were paid for years ago.
  5. When you try to share many stated-as-"eligible" purchases with the family by using the toggle, it errors, and a refresh shows that it never shared. I used Firefox, Edge, no VPN, and no adblocker. Tons of attempts. Nothing. No fix.
  6. Google has no proper support channel.
  7. If you try to remove the family account and host it under the Google account that owns all the purchases in hopes that they will now work, you will discover that none of the accounts can join a family plan again for 12 fucking months.

Lesson: Don't ever buy your shit through Google Play. Put your pirate hat on.

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[-] doctorn@r.nf 0 points 1 year ago

In a perfect world you don't, but many ISP's block torrentsites by poisoning their own dns lookups to torrentengine domains and even some torrenttrackers. (They purposefully send you back a wrong IP when your pc asks where the website is, usually one that goes to a "this website is blocked" webpage instead).

If you use an open one you kinda circumvent this measure and you can get on any site again without any further hassle. There's Google's 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4, cloudflare's 1.1.1.1, there's also 9.9.9.9, or if you are a techy you can even run a dns server yourself and then point to localhost.

Anyway, in my previous post I first said it ended on "dot io", but was wrong and then edited it to "dot to", but since edits don't always federate well I'm repeating now it is '.to', and not '.io'. ๐Ÿ˜œ

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