Clearly a yuge conspiracy against Americans, everyone knows Americans are the best businessmen, anyone who says different only says that because they’re worse - it’s true, folks, these people love to lie - after my christening I closed a 7 figure deal, they can’t say that, can they? No they can’t because they don’t do christenings there, very sad, very rude to the Christian population those Christians always getting the short end of the stick but they won’t talk about that will they folks, no they won’t. I will though, somebody has to stand up for those righteous oppressed people and the media sure won’t do it but I’ll make sure everybody knows that Americans are getting a shit deal there
I pay for premium because YouTube does video delivery better than anyone else in the world, and it’s not free for them to provide. Lots of things to hate about YouTube/Alphabet, but theft is a corrupt way of expressing discontentment.
Also, if I pay for premium, then content creators get paid, and I don’t have to shell out for merch to not feel like a terrible person.
I imagine if it doesn’t make sense to you already, I won’t be able to help you understand, but here goes anyway.
A company pays a lot of money to have a service developed and hosted, then offers a paid teir, and an ad supported teir. If you neither pay, nor watch ads, yet still use the service, then the company is incurring fees due to your usage while receiving no revenue for providing the service.
Like, YouTube videos are great. Practically a utility at this point. However YouTube, the platform, is a company not a charity; if you cost them money, while providing $0 revenue, you’re stealing their money.
Personally I don’t think theft is justified outside extreme desparation (stealing food, basically), and given that YouTube gives you an option that does not require giving them money I find it hard to justify stealing bandwidth.
YouTube voluntarily chooses to still provide their service to me when I block ads. They could easily block that. But they don’t. They don’t even ban my account when I log in with an ad blocker and they still let me upload videos and publish them. Is it theft if someone hands something to you without a threat of force and you take it?
If YouTube started banning Adblockers they’d end up with really bad PR and an arms race, neither of which would sound terribly appealing (although I predict this is a policy change in the works already).
The problem with account bans is that, unlike steam accounts, YouTube accounts have no value associated with them. You ban one and another one pops up.
If I went to the drive through, and they handed me a coffee and said “that’ll be $3. Would you like to pay with cash? or points?” And I just drove off, they wouldn’t chase me over it, but it is absolutely still theft.
Listen, if you want to pirate content, go ahead, I can’t stop you, and it’s not like I haven’t done it myself, but don’t lie to yourself.
You skipped the part where, upon purchasing YouTube, Google used their infinitely deep pockets to deliberately run all other video hosting services, and there were several, out of business and create a monopoly. I’m not going to question my morals over blocking ads from a company that itself is morally bankrupt.
The user should always be in control of the 1s and 0s entering their computer. Allowing some data and not allowing others is not theft. It’s not all-or-nothing for which data Google sends me and recieves from me, that’s absurd.
This abstraction doesn’t make a ton of sense to me. Of course you’re in charge of your computer, but just because you’re free to choose a certain option, doesn’t make it moral, or legal. Using a companys service and making a special effort to withhold payment then saying “it’s not theft, they’re totally cool with it” is absurd. Why would they be cool with that?
I don’t care of they’re cool with it, I’ll use my computer how I want to. Google makes hundreds of billions in annual revenue, it’s hard to feel bad for them. Calling that theft is a massive stretch, they are not losing anything except for potential profit, you could argue bandwidth but that is so intangible compared to any kind of physical theft.
Keep in mind with adblocking we’re dealing with fractions of a penny per video and Google is still making money off me regardless. I directly support creators I like, sending them $10 is an order of magnitude more money than they would get over a lifetime of me watching ads.
you could argue bandwidth but that is so intangible compared to any kind of physical theft.
Have you ever paid hosting fees? Digital != Intangible.
Its up to you to decide what kinds of theft you’re ok with. I definitely pirate things, but I don’t lie about it and say it’s not theft. I just accept that sometimes I’m the bad guy.
For the one that looks most right, Gal Gadot is probably the best from this list. For the movie I’m most likely to watch? The Terry Crews version would be worth it even if it sucks
No biggie, chinese is hard as hell. You take a week off studying and there goes 100 characters from your memory. I didn’t want to sound rude, my level of Chinese is being able to read these characters
As a chinese that learn mandarin as my first language: yeah. I stop learning it at 15yo because it’s getting impossible for me to follow all these idioms and essays. Hard to learn, insanely hard to master lol.
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