[11/*] So now I believe I am ready to log in to YouTube on the PlayStation, having insulated myself from the rather obvious security hole that neither Google nor Sony seems to think is concerning (which is especially amusing, considering Sony has had major hacks in the past).
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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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