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My dude, white knighting a company that had almost $60 billion in profit in 2022 and $73 billion profit in 2023 isn't a good look.
Source.
My dude... There are 100s of legitimate things about Google to complain about, but you pick the weakest argument and then say I'm white knighting them. YouTube doesn't owe you cause they made profit... you've been able to still bypass their ads for this long, and so now users are complaining that they were able to circumvent something easier in the past?
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.
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.
Pretty sure I didn't say they did.
People always complain when their convenience is removed from them. Welcome to the human condition.
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?
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?
Read your previous comment.
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.
Please rewrite this to make sense and we'll get back to you in 3-5 working days.