[4/*] My first thought was, well, YouTube Premium allows me to upgrade to a "family membership", which would allow me to add other accounts. That would allow me to make a proxy account on gmail, add it to my "family", and use that for the login.
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[15/*] What?? I know I entered it correctly. What happened? Well, as I try it again, I realize what happened. The password field DEFAULTS TO AUTO CAPITALIZING THE FIRST LETTER. So it helpfully capitalized the first letter of my password which (hax0rz take note!) wasn't caps.
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[16/*] OK, I do it again. I undo the helpful auto-caps this time, and it "works", in that it goes to the next screen. But then, the web browser is replaced by simply a Sony error code. It literally just says "Error WS-something-something". That's it.
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[17/*] So I'm like, OK, maybe that was just a mistake, let me try again. I close the YouTube app, I do the whole process over again. Same error. So this time, I notice there is a triangle cue at the bottom for looking up the error on Sony's website. I press triangle.
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[18/*] This brings me to Sony's website with the error code in the URL. The website says... and I kid you not... "error code not found". THEY DO NOT EVEN HAVE THEIR OWN ERROR CODES ON THEIR OWN WEBSITE.
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[19/*] OK, well, hmm. Let me think. What might be going on here? What's the most likely problem? And then I think, you know what, that's probably the step where it tries to do the thing I didn't actually want in the first place, which is link my YouTube to my PSN.
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[20/*] And then I remember, oh right, the PS4 was probably just logged in to someone else's user, that doesn't even have a PSN account. I checked, and it was. So that error message - the one that they DO NOT DOCUMENT - is just, "you don't have PSN". Isn't that very common???
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[21/*] So now I'm like, OK, no worries, I just log out of that user, and I log in as my user which does have my PSN. Nobody ever uses that user, but like, I do have it for me buying games. So now I'm super confident this is going to work!
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[22/*] I go to the video apps menu again, and this time - I swear I am not making this up - it shows all the icons but they're just little spinny arrows, like it hasn't loaded yet, and then POOF - the screen goes black. Period. Done. Hard crash - so hard that it doesn't reboot.
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[23/*] So now I have to kill the power to the PS4, because there's no other way to get it back on. Of course, if you do that, now the PS4 decides it needs to fsck, so, I get to sit there and wait for a few minutes while the little "checking the disk" bar trolls along.
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[24/*] It finishes, and then I am presented with the offensive "you know, you should learn to power off devices properly" screen, which always enrages me because in my entire life I have never shut down a PS4 improperly. THAT SCREEN ONLY HAPPENS BECAUSE YOUR STUFF CRASHES, BRO.
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[25/*] I get the thing back on, I get back to the apps, I click YouTube. You would think that would launch YouTube. Hahahahahahahhaha... very funny! What a sense of humor you have.
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[26/*] No, of course not. Instead of launching YouTube, it brings up a dialog box telling me that I don't have _permission_ to run YouTube, because YouTube was downloaded by _another_ user of the PS4. This is a real dialog box that really opened. On a consumer device.
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[27/*] So it provides a link to the PlayStation Store, and tells me, if _I_ want to run YouTube, well then I am going to have to download it _again_. Now that may sound ridiculous to you, but we're only getting started.
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[28/*] I click OK, sure, bring me to the PlayStation Store, and I go and I click on the "Download" button below the YouTube logo. Surely that will do the trick.
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[29/*] Nope. Time for dialog box #2. This dialog box lets me know - and I double swear I am not making a single step of this process up - This dialog box lets me know that I cannot download YouTube because... wait for it... IT HAS ALREADY BEEN DOWNLOADED ON THIS PS4.
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[30/*] THERE IS LITERALLY A DIALOG BOX TELLING YOU THAT YOU CANNOT RUN A PROGRAM ON THE PS4 THAT YOU DIDN'T DOWNLOAD YOURSELF, AND THEN WHEN YOU TRY TO DOWNLOAD IT YOURSELF, IT TELLS YOU IT'S ALREADY DOWNLOADED. This is a thing that actually exists in the real world.
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[31/*] But thank god for small favors, dear reader, because for whatever reason, after that second dialog box, the "download" button magically changes into a "start" button, and when I click the "start" button, it launches YouTube!!!!
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[32/*] Now remember - I literally haven't actually accomplished _a single thing_ a this point. Everything you just read was just me _trying to get back to the YouTube app as a different PS4 user_. That's ALL I WAS DOING.
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[33/*] So I'm finally in the YouTube app again. I click on Sign In. I go through the process. I hit "next" and... IT WORKS!!! IT ACTUALLY WORKS!!!! I am logged in to YouTube with YouTube Premium on my PS4! Oh joyous day. I can now watch Mikey Chen and RLM with no commercials.
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[34/*] And so now you might think, ah, the end of the saga. Nope. Google had one more surprise up their sleeve, just to put the turd cherry on top of this poop sundae.
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[35/*] I come upstairs to answer some emails. The YouTube Family screen is still on my computer. I look at it. And it says:pic.twitter.com/LtaFyFRG7j
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[36/*] That's right folks. "Foo". My "Next Family Home" apparently has one "group of devices" - whatever that is - called simply, "Foo".
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[37/*] I can't click on it. It's literally just an icon that says "Foo". It's not active in any way. I can't remove it. I can't add a new one. I just have one "group of devices", and that group is called "Foo", and if I don't like it, well, I guess that's my problem?
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[38/*] And that is apparently the level of quality you can expect from the most popular video site on the most popular console, from two companies whose combined market cap is _two trillion dollars_. That's the experience they were 100% comfortable with.
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[39/*] PS. I totally forgot! PSN also sent me a receipt for $0.00, and thanked me for my "purchase" of "YouTube (Application)".
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