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For free?? You know they get paid to run all those ads, right? Quit defending a corporation, it's beneath you
You know they wouldn’t get paid if nobody watched the ads. And if they didn’t get paid they wouldn’t have any reason to pay to run the site. Explaining that a corporation will not run a site like YouTube for free (which it wouldn’t even be, it costs a lot of money to run) if they weren’t getting paid. Quit attacking other users simply for pointing out facts. It’s beneath you (I think)
But the vast majority of users will and indeed does watch the ads already. You know how many times I've provided alternatives to people so they wouldn't have to watch the ads, only for them to stop and go back to normal YouTube because "it's what I knew best, I feel more comfortable with that, etc"? Or all the people who pay for YouTube premium "because it's easier"?
Quit acting as if such a gigantic monopoly like YouTube was a family-run business on the verge of collapse. They get paid already plenty and they have all the money they can desire. You are just defending corporate greed to squeeze every single cent they can from consumers while also trying to burn down every other viable alternative which is used by a single-digit percentage of their userbase.
I never said that Google is on the verge of collapse, nor did I defend them. I merely stated that Google is a corporation, driven by profit, and expecting Google to act in the interest of anything but their own profits is a fool’s fantasy. Quit putting words in people’s mouths. It’s unbecoming of anyone that wants to have a legitimate discussion and it’s just toxic.
I never said you said those things, tf are you talking about? I clearly said "acting as if". And you were acting like that. Because when you "simply state the fact that it's a corporation driven by profit" you play into their hand and inadvertently justify their mentality of 'profit over everything else', including privacy and truth. And speaking of putting words into people's mouth...I never said that I expect them to act in the best interests of anyone. I clearly said that YouTube does not provide all that content for free. It is very much paid for, by both the loss of privacy and the many ads they run. Also, I find quite interesting how for you suddenly when people go against what I assume are your stances, they become toxic. You also put words into my mouth and clearly misinterpreted my point. By the same metric, should I too assume you are toxic and not interested in legitimate discussions?
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