Thank you. Downgraded. Perks doesnāt give me much to warrant the increase and I donāt use YouTube. They couldāve sweetened the deal with something like 6 months 0% on Flex or something with Perks.
Not sure if itās coincidence or planned that theyāve made two of the stickiest features (virtual card and connected account) available to a limited extent in the free tier. Not complaining though (especially since being let back into Starling I can get 4% on my easy access savings for free over there).
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Was only so long they could keep them paywalled as Starling offer virtual cards for free and Revolut has both for free. Even some of the legacy banks now offer virtual cards free
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You have to cancel your Perks to free and then subscribe to Extra. Thereās no option to downgrade directly to Extra.
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Looks like thatās the new app flow since the price hike. Theyāve 
anticipated a load of users wanting to downgrade so theyāve made it easier. That option didnāt exist before.
Theyāve anticipated a lot of people wanting to cancel might not check their options but might be caught into a lower plan rather than losing all the revenue
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Yes, thereās a lot of āhereās what you could still have for only Ā£X a monthā hard sell on the way out now.
I would consider upgrading to.perks, if the YouTube lite could be upgraded to YouTube premium Family, even if it was just say Ā£2/3 towards the Ā£19.99
I donāt know if YT supports what Netflix etc does though with the upgrade pricing.
Hell if I recall the Lloyd disney+ couldnāt get upgraded even though itās common to be able to do it with Sky although for that to work billing needs to be through Sky TV.
Gemini thinks this is unsupported, I guess the issue is that only Google and Monzo know what terms they agreed in terms of cost per user, so applying the retail price as a discount may not be right.
I do think though that Monzo should be able to offer other options, where we pay Monzo a premium and Monzo maybe make slightly more.
I know for Sky and Netflix they promote Netflix included, but offer upgrades to the basic Netflix
Yeah you canāt upgrade it.
NextDNS on my Apple TV seems to block all the ads anyway though.
Does NextDNS impact speeds? Do you have it set up on the router I take it?
Iāve been using Mullvad and find when it comes to downloads it massively throttles speeds and gaming can be unreliable. So it only gets turned for certain use cases nowā¦
No impact on speed for me.
You can set it up on routers, provided your router allows it. If youāre using the Sky Hub, they donāt allow changes to the DNS settings.
They have apps on iOS, Android, Mac and Windows you can use, or you can just change your DNS settings on device to use it.
The website includes guides to set it up on pretty much anything.
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I use my own router with Sky Broadband. No way would I be going back to using a ISP provided router. I have an Asus XT12 mesh system
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Not familiar but I would assume that would allow setting it up at the router level.
Its this, pretty sure it will let me. I was going to have Mullvad run on it but since sites etc have become picky with VPN users I just use on devices and turn it off when I donāt need it.
Yeah I donāt love leaving a VPN on full-time, as you say some websites are funny about it.
NextDNS blocks all the ads without the funkiness.
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I was NextDNS for years since the beta days but went ControlD
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I did use ControlD for quite a while.
I like how it lets you set a location to appear from based on which website/app youāre using.
I was able to appear in the Netherlands only when watching F1 TV, removing the need to enable a VPN
Signed up to the new Perks tier today (I was waiting for a 1st of the month billing date).
I donāt go to Greggs or use Uber, and Iām not eligible for a railcard.
But my default cinema is a Vue, so with that and YouTube plus the Extras bits that get rolled in thatās enough to be financially viable for me personally.
Couldnāt believe how easy the YT linking process was. 2 or 3 clicks and it was done!
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