Growing up I’ve just learned how to make things sound professional. “Independant research to contribute to peer education.”

So they’re literally building the mountain next year. Neat.

It’s in my normal vocabulary. Again, my condolences for your teachers.

Thinking people owe you something that comes at a cost to them is entitlement you little goober.

If you think “apt word” is a ‘very smart’ phrase I am so sorry your teachers failed you.

Every time we get close to a science victory our military advisor finds another war to divert production to…

Toll roads are a perfect example actually. You need it, alternatives are inconvenient, you have the ability to pay and drive through or you can choose not to. They just don’t have the advertiser workaround. It’s pay or fuck off.

Your entitled attitude is what’s going to get us to a point where premium will be required to watch videos. Adblockers only work because they let them. You’ll have a rude awakening soon.

Pay or stop watching isn’t the choice I’m putting in front of you.

It’s the one YouTube is winding up to put in front of you. Good luck.

Right, so only scrappy startups deserve to run a profitable business and Google should be forced to choke down the abhorrent cost of YouTube out of… what exactly? If they were making money hand over fist on it, sure, fuck em. But they’re not. YouTube isn’t profitable and the reason there aren’t competitors is for that exact reason. They are literally free video data storage with no limit. No site can compete with that. Everything else would make you pay for a membership or have a small hard limit or even have some kind of gate yet you take it as the standard.

If YouTube fails there will be no alternative to take their place. Amazon might try, but their greed might stop them. They’re already a household name, what would the point be?

Your analogy falls apart like wet toilet paper. Private highways require tolls, a small contribution to the maintenance of the road. Renting a car, house, etc. The concept of letting people use something expensive for a small nominal fee is the very foundation of our society and on the internet, that fee can be pushed to advertisers if you don’t want to cough it up. Block the advertisers, you’re stealing the service, which comes with a fine or jail time. Since we can’t do that, want to know the alternative?

Blocking adblockers. Hulu and Twitch already do it. How long before they remake their player to do the same? You don’t get it. The mega corporation always gets paid and they will damn sure sink the platform if they can’t.

A park is funded by the city. The city is funded by non-negotiable taxes.

You’re new to this, aren’t you?

Lol you’re the one contributing to making it worse. Google already loses money on operating YouTube and freeloaders only exacerbate that loss. They’re going to make ads longer, unskippable, and take away your perception of a choice. They’re going to kill every other option you have. Pay or stop watching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation

Okay, so how’s that Premium consideration going?

Browsers that block data, Adblockers that block ad revenue, no interest in a subscription.

You give nothing, take everything, then act entitled to do so. Yeah, stealing is an apt word for it. At least own what you are.

Alternate caption: “You guys wanna stop stealing our server bandwidth?”

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