It only seems like a bad deal because everything we’ve been getting has been free so far and the content isn’t coming from major Hollywood producers. It’s about on par with Netflix and Disney+, except we consume a lot more of YouTube. I’m pretty sure they are also taking into account that some people will continue adblocking. They need a lot more moderation than Netflix of Disney+ and they have a lot more load on their servers and consumption per user.
As an aside, people can downvote all they want, but if they are really going to push for this, they might better spend their time searching for alternatives that won’t domino alongside YouTube if this is countermovement is really going to be a thing.
I mean, I saw the warnings, but still could close them and keep watching them. Still, I ended up getting Premium to support YT streamers I watch without ads. It’s either that or that YouTube dies with a domino effect on the industry of small time streamers. I watch it far more than Netflix or Disney Plus, and have payed zero cents for the convenience of adblock. I’ll still keep it installed to use with other Google accounts, but I have no problem paying.
I can understand the people that are angry because a service that has been free for so long begins charging, but don’t be disingenuous and begin saying that the service doesn’t cost anything to maintain, or worse, that the whole business model is nonviable when it’s asking about the same for premium as other streaming services that have been having no problem existing, specially when the money coming out of those services should be in recent memory considering it was one of the major points regarding the writer’s strike (getting a cut from streaming).
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Another free remaster to try to sell the NVIDIA 40xx generation, can’t complain. Even as someone not buying into this gen it will still be there for future ones.
You mean the perfect example of the taxi industry coordinating against uber as a threat?
Those rates are also set to increase:
The fact is, if Uber had not existed there would be no Las Vegas taxicab flat rate as you know it.
Streaming is now just as expensive and confusing as cable.
Umm, are people coming over from an alternate universe? Cable was much more expensive and limited, streaming forced it to reform.
Ubers cost as much as taxis.
This shitty claim sounds false, specially with the antics taxis perform to make trips longer. If it does have any ring of truth, I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of it comes from having to acquiesce to the taxi sector, because they really cannot compete otherwise.
cloud is no longer cheap.
No shit, renting is more expensive in the longterm than owning something yourself? Tell me more.
Yes, a censorship state is muuuuch more objective.
Shouldn’t you be checking your banking accounts to see how many are at risk of getting closed off without warning due to defaults from the Evergrande crash? Everything is fine, nothing to see here. - CCP
Elon Musk has gone about trying to drive Twitter into the ground while doing everything he can to maintain plausible deniability that he wasn’t. Literally biggest example of big money misused to influence social networks.
There’s probably a context for this that has been removed, but I still feel that simply replying idiot repeatedly shouldn’t be allowed, specially when it seems to founded on attempting to brigade someone’s history.
While I’m sure a lot of mods have been getting away with murder on reddit and have carried it over to lemmy, it’s unfair to characterize lemmy by these The fediverse is the perfect opportunity to begin to demand servers that have transparent moderation and arbitration or that they get put on a block list of the servers that value it. That means being told when your comment is removed and being given a reason. Being sent a notification is something that the server could be doing itself.
I think it’s normal for any service to have drops after a spike.
Slow and steady wins the race. Helps that it isn’t led by a fan of confidence scams.
Thanks, spez / Steve Huffman. Now do us all a favor and fire yourself. It would probably drive that traffic back down slightly, but we could live with it.
Whatever happened to the hackers that were releasing reddit’s internal bullshit? Did they finally get payed and is that why spez is that extra bit of desperate?
Hey, at least I don’t need fake alts, comes with being right.
Tell your people/alts to distribute their downvotes further up the branch, they look as ridiculous as your inability to understand evidence even when directly presented with it. It’s sort of funny to not even have them show up on kbin, I imagine it might be some misguided attempt at obfuscating, although the positive upvotes from accounts with zero comments or activity in old deep threaded content tell me enough. Man I love the transparency in contrast to reddit 😀
In other words, you didn’t read the links. Here is another one from actual lawyers who actually know the law and do actually prosecute for it:
https://arighttobeforgotten.co.uk/right-to-be-forgotten-social-media
https://wolf.agency/en/the-right-to-be-forgotten/
I’m sorry, but outside of the US, you don’t get a free pass to be shitty. It will still require money and effort to bring to court, however.
https://gdpr-info.eu/art-17-gdpr/
Read it and weep, it’s not just PII, it’s PD. Sort of why it’s called “Right to be Forgotten”.
https://techgdpr.com/blog/difference-between-pii-and-personal-data/
“Personal data” shall mean any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person Even pseudonymised data falls under it,
Oh, and regarding the “Update”, most of those are still relying on YT hosting, and the independent exceptions aren’t dealing with even a fraction of the bandwidth or moderation costs, never mind actually paying content creators for their content. Yes, this is a piracy community, I just tend to mind it more when the content creators being affected aren’t Hollywood.