I think you’re mistaken about what this lower price tier offers. It is still ad-free, except for Youtube Music which is ad-supported. If a regular YouTube video uses a song that belongs to the YouTube Music catalog, it will have ads as normal. Also, this tier doesn’t offer background playback (with the phone screen turned off).

They should put the gift card through a scanner and send the image. If it’s that easy, charging for it is asshole-ish for sure.

If Piped is basically a proxy to access YouTube videos, who pays for this proxy (which shouldn’t be cheap)?

I’m out of the loop on this subject. I know Onedrive previously offered 15GB to free users, then strunk it to 5GB, but kept the larger amount to legacy users.

Have they made another reduction recently?

Lemmy taking over as a protocol would not be a bad thing, because by design it promotes the creation of multiple federated instances. At least the UI woukd be standardized, lowering the user friction in case he needs to migrate.

I was under the impression iAMA was pretty much dead after Victoria was fired. Has any AMA of note occured there since then?

I saw a “high refresh rate” option in the settings. Have you tried enabling it?

Is your phone 100% un-Googled?

Didn’t notice anything different. In fact, I can’t change to “All” anymore (coincidence?). That’s why I’m exploring Connect right now.