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Google announces April 2024 shutdown date for Google Podcasts (arstechnica.com)
submitted 11 months ago by flop_leash_973@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Time to get out of Google Podcasts for anyone that is still using the service.

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[โ€“] pete_the_cat@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

IIRC Play Music was a paid service, it probably had a free tier with ads/commercials, but I definitely paid for it. That's how I got grandfathered into YouTube Premium (when they launched YouTube Red as it was called it came "free" with the subscription to Play Music) and can't go back to the free tier or deal with the various hacked clients and ad blockers. It's been over a decade of ad-free YouTube (except for the sponsor segments everyone does now, I do use SmartTube on my Nvidia Shield to skip those).

[โ€“] variants@possumpat.io 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah I think at some point they started subscriptions but you were able to keep your old library from before