You opened up Pandora's box. There's no closing it.

Fuck Nestle but also kitkat tastes good

Saw this and immediately purchased ad free boost. Not because I care about my privacy (I made peace with the fact that that's long gone) but because I wanna support the dev.

RCS is an open standard created by GSMA, not a Google product. Google and Samsung just have the most popular "flavours" of RCS

Yeah, I recently did it for a lab and it was... interesting.

My Ubuntu VM wasn't particularly great either but it was the one that my uni provided

Moissanite

They are but disposables are quite popular as well and are getting more popular (higher margins I guess).

To be fair, this is the most sane take I've seen about this from the pro adblock side. That's actually fucked up if they killed it out of nowhere but also sounds like Google.

Another sane take. Seriously, a breath of fresh air after seeing people on both Reddit and Lemmy talking about this with the entitlement of the average r/ChoosingBeggars post

RCS is an open standard created by GSMA. That's why you're wrong.

avenge the 1919 Jallianwalla Bagh massacre

Bruhhhh ain't no way. She was literally not alive for it.

That's a fair criticism. I personally don't care about it because I gave up on the idea of having any privacy ages ago but I get that people may not be happy with that.

If I were to play devil's advocate, I can say that the data they collect is important for serving you the right videos but let's be real here, Google definitely uses it to serve you ads everywhere else

I am lawful neutral but my mom's lawful evil and she throws the fucking thing away so I can't even do it :((

My brain can think logically (like mathematical logic) but I have minimal practice. I'm not an amazing coder but I can get by.

Starting at step 0 is an important part of the programming process

I literally only switched because of Boost. Also, since Boost for Reddit still works for me, I continue to use that as well

Enough that your insurance rates will probably go up

Meat heist is unironically a real thing

The problem is that running a video streaming platform is too expensive for there to be competition and YouTube is the only platform with the user base to be able to do it while being profitable. If you want no ads because ads are annoying but you also don't want to pay for premium, you're advocating for piracy (which I'm not against either), but if you expect them to keep the servers running even after that, you're not living in reality

Just to add one more thing, if your criticism of premium is that they still collect your data after that, fair enough (get newpipe), but if you simply want to use YouTube for free and aren't that bothered about your privacy (like when you use adblock on a browser) then that's not consistent with that argument either.