• 1 Post
  • 444 Comments
Joined 1 year ago
cake
Cake day: June 22nd, 2023

help-circle








  • Microsoft won’t even let you setup Windows now without an online account, unless you modify the installer or enter the terminal during installation. I don’t like Google but for God’s sake the issue isn’t just with Google. We need better laws and regulations in the US. Going after Google when other companies are just as corrupt or worse solves nothing. It just paves the way for worse actors. You can’t even remove your Microsoft Store apps once they’ve been downloaded from your library. At least with Google I can remove that and manage lots of privacy settings. Google isn’t an angel but there are bigger demons out there that seem to be getting a free pass.




  • I agree… however, that is an issue with the content creators relying on using content promotions. I have noticed when skipping ahead in videos that it usually indicates in the progress bar where the promotion ends. If the content producers utilized other ways to contribute and I liked them enough, then I’d do that. YouTube now has a subscriber only feature that should help with this. There are also extensions that are supposed to block sponsors too. I don’t think YouTube has implemented any functions to make blocking sponsored ads more difficult, especially for paying users… who knows though.



  • But you’re not. You’ve made several comments on this post criticizing the people who 1. want control over their own devices and 2. are sick of ads being forced into every aspect of their lives.

    They have control over their devices. You’re not making sense and can’t even articulate how they don’t have control. If they want even more control, they can install GrapheneOS or a plethora of third party ROMs that removes all Google services. Apple users can’t even do that. No one is making them use YouTube either. Google allows third party apps that blocks ads. It isn’t like a… “Ha, Google you’re idiots we are smarter than you cause you are too stupid to block ads.” Seriously, what kind of dumb person takes this attitude?

    And I happen to think that a company throwing such an entitled fit over money, when they are making an immoral amount of profit that is increasing YoY, is super relevant when discussing the profitability of one of their services.

    Dumb users are the ones throwing an entitled fit. Why is making profit immoral? If you want to say, “I’m anti-capitalist and don’t think the world should be about money…” then just say that. It is a much stronger argument and one that should be discussed more, but singling out Google is dumb. In terms of ethics, they are still way better than most companies, including Apple & Microsoft… In what realitydoes it make sense to attack the more ethical companies before going after the least ethical?

    YouTube doesn’t owe you cause they made profit

    Read your previous comment.

    People always complain when their convenience is removed from them. Welcome to the human condition.

    Not always. If I go to a coffee shop and they give me a free one out of convenience… I don’t go back and demand they keep giving them to me for free cause they did it once.