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If you want to be this cynical about it I can only tell you one thing: the world does work like that, because people can get away with it and they do.
Yeah corporations can decide to sell our time, eyeballs and data for smaller and smaller fractions of a penny without asking us. Because clearly it isn't about what is fair and equitable, it's not about making sure every party gets what they deserve, it's about what they can get away with.
Considering how much tech companies get away with, if anyone wants to moralize over not giving them what they demand, I can only laugh.
I mean they asked you, they told you the exact amount they won't do that for, you don't want to pay it, so they engaged you in a weapons race of adblockers vs adblocker detectors.
the world works like that because that's how the world works currently, because that's the point of evolution we are at, we haven't yet moved past the capitalist system.
are we still talking about fucking youtube videos or did the conversation somehow changed to be about access to drinking water? damn bro, it's youtube, a time-sink platform, you don't need it to live
You are the one who are trying to make a big deal over what people ought to do and how the world works over ads. If you don't think that's not worth arguing about, then I dunno why you're still at it.
I definitely don't think using an ad blocker is a moral battleground, I'm more baffled by the idea that Google needs defending over this.
I just dislike people making arguments that are really about their entitlement and try to pass it off as something else.
you could make some fair points, that youtube is essentially a monopoly and that locking some educational content behind a pay/adwall is unfairly disadvantageous to people with less money, but nope, your problem is that:
"How dare they ask us for money, why don't they ask us how much we want to pay? it's so unfair, why don't they just run their service for free??"
it's a bit whingy, innit?
I have covid so I have some free time to tire my brain out calling out whingy shit.
Sounding like you do want to argue about this. If you don't think this is a big deal then maybe stop nagging people over petty stuff.
Wow this is the dumbest argument for a monopoly I’ve ever read
How is YouTube a monopoly? You can use other platforms, YouTube is just the most popular. There aren't many because it's wildly unprofitable and people refuse to pay for it.
Read the room pal. Nobody agrees with you. It’s time to stop.
"Nobody" is a high bar you've set for yourself. There are many people in this thread with the same argument.