Google's brilliant, really truly free YouTube Red trial promotion https://plus.google.com/+LaurenWeinstein/posts/cqesrz57VuS
One of my gripes about "free" trials on the Net is that they nearly inevitably require both a payment method on file and will start charging you automatically when the trial period ends. Having the payment method in the system isn't that big a deal, but automatic charging when trials run out has tended to rub me the wrong way. Google/YouTube has broken that mold. While browsing around, I was offered to download the YouTube Android music app (which is designed for playing both ad-supported and subscription supported music). When I logged into the app, my standard YouTube account was immediately upgraded to YouTube Red for two weeks -- meaning no ads and a bunch of other features. At the end of that time my account will revert to normal, and the welcome message notes explicitly that there will be no automatic charges. Now that's the way to do a free trial! --Lauren-- Care About Science and Tech? Our Job One: STOP TRUMP: https://vortex.com/stop-trump - - - Lauren Weinstein (lau...@vortex.com): https://www.vortex.com/lauren Lauren's Blog: https://lauren.vortex.com Founder: Network Neutrality Squad: https://www.nnsquad.org PRIVACY Forum: https://www.vortex.com/privacy-info Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: https://www.pfir.org/pfir-info Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Google+: https://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 I have consulted to Google, but I am not currently doing so -- my opinions expressed here are mine alone. - - - The correct term is "Internet" NOT "internet" -- please don't fall into the trap of using the latter. It's just plain wrong! _______________________________________________ pfir mailing list https://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir
