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  • ruh roh

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  • I'm guessing you feel like a bit of a mug for paying your hard earned money to faceless mega wealthy corporation so you want to believe that people who skip the ads without needlessly paying Google are stealing.

    Well, they're not. They're just skipping ads.

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  • And you want to make other people feel guilty for skipping ads because it's easy for them to get your experience without paying uber-wealthy corporations, so you try to make out that they stole something? Get off your high horse. Your giving would be far more beneficial if it went to a charity instead of Google.

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  • The content creators make content using which YouTube/Google earns vast sums of money in advertising. They top slice most of the money for themselves and forward very little of it to the people who worked to create it, so in that sense they change the content creators. They're one of the most profitable companies on the globe. Where does that profit come from? It comes from underpaying content providers. Still don't know why you're defending them. They dropped the "don't be evil" plan and they meant it.

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  • You know full well that Google is charging content creators way, way over their costs, even if they qualify for the more lucrative partner programs (most don't - the long tail - and those who do are the better off YouTubers), exploiting their monopoly position to extract money to an unfair extent from both content creators and advertisers.

    So, I do think it's weird that you defend one of the richest and financially exploitative corporations on the planet and all your criticism is for me for skipping the annoying and repetative ads and not for the exploitative monopoly corporation.

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  • Do you let the ads play in full, or do you press skip as sin as you can?

    Guess what, pressing skip means the advertiser isn't charged and the content creator isn't paid. Far more people press skip than get ad blockers. You should be criticising me for pressing skip, surely! Ad skippers hurt content creators far more!

    And IT IS NOT THEFT! None of it is stealing. The outright LIE is that skipping or blocking ads is theft.

    I actually don't use an ad blocker, I just skip the ads, and I skip them guilt free, because the majority of content creators aren't in Google's more lucrative partner programs, so Google keeps most of the money, and if their content doesn't qualify for monetisation, Google keeps all of the money from ads on their content.

    But I put an ad blocker on my elderly relative's computer because those ads that you keep defending kept tricking her into installing malware, and it's not even slightly illegal and it's not even slightly morally questionable.

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  • You’re spending a lot of time and effort defending one of the richest corporations in the world. It’s weird.

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  • Has put occurred to you that young impressionable minds are hurt by you lying on the Internet that skipping ads is theft or that it hurts people?

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  • So stealing is defined (in some states) as taking property with the intent to permanently deprive the owner of the property. So you're incorrect and commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com might be breaking YouTube's terms and condition not the law, and it's not theft.

    If Google were paying the content creators anything even remotely resembling the kind of income from advertisers the content earns, I might have a shred of sympathy for them losing a tiny bit of advertising revenue if some user watches a video without watching the same three ads they've seen ten times already that day.

    You're spending a lot of time and effort defending one of the richest corporations in the world. It's weird.

  • Trump Sure Seems Pissed at Elon Musk Over the Spending Bill | Donald Trump isn’t taking the “President Musk” rhetoric well at all

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  • I think he does shit his pants. MAGATs went through a phase of "real men wear diapers".

  • Trump Sure Seems Pissed at Elon Musk Over the Spending Bill | Donald Trump isn’t taking the “President Musk” rhetoric well at all

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  • This is the way.

  • Trump Says He Opposes Stopgap Government Funding Bill

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  • I want to go back to when Trump wrote crazy nonsense on social media and nothing happened.

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  • Signal messaging app.

  • What's something really good that is about to happen, and not a lot of people know about it?

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  • There are quite a lot in supermarket, fast food restaurants etc in my country, but they're a lot more expensive than home charging. Your point is a good one, and we need more on street chargers where people park overnight.

  • What's something really good that is about to happen, and not a lot of people know about it?

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  • Have a great time and be sure to tell lemmy all about it afterwards!

  • What's something really good that is about to happen, and not a lot of people know about it?

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  • I had absolutely no idea just how many electric chargers there are in my country until I got an EV and started using the zapmap app.

    But that's just for long journeys. Most of the time I just plug in every few days when I get home and it changes in the cheap hours overnight when I only pay 9p per kwh.

    I used to spend about five times as much on petrol as I do now on electricity. And the car is just so much more fun to drive. So much zoom.

  • TIL that electric toothbrushes are 10–20% more effective than manual toothbrushes at removing dental plaque

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  • This was my experience as soon as I went electric too, yes. If anything, the only thing that's surprising about the article title to me is that it's only 20% more plaque!

  • Brian Thompson, Not Luigi Mangione, Is the Real Working-Class Hero

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  • Thank you very much. Have a great rest of the weekend.

  • Brian Thompson, Not Luigi Mangione, Is the Real Working-Class Hero

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  • No industry is perfect

    No....

    — nor is any health care model

    True, true, but this is like talking about Jeffrey Epstein and saying "we all like to have sex sometimes"

    — and insurance companies make terrible calls all the time in the interest of cost savings. But the idea that those companies represent a unique evil in American life is divorced from the experience of most of their customers.

    Nope. Very very incorrect. American healthcare ranks near the top of the most expensive and most obstructive in the world.

  • Efficiency test of my 2024 Prius Prime: Gasoline vs Electricity in my first week.

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  • He spent half the weekend swearing at me and calling me names but then when I posted my data on his realtesla community he said he was loving rent free in me head, but when I replied with links to his ranting and raving here, he banned me for harassing mods!

    I don't really care about how irate and irrational he acts, he's called me all kinds of nonsense just to get me to shut up but it didn't work. He's kind of given up now though. Spent all his energy and once he got closure banning me he calmed down a lot. Somehow he thinks it shows he wasn't biased!