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I live for 90s TV sitcoms
Which is so sad because since they basically put themselves into that state. Fear is the biggest political motivator. Fear of the west has been keeping them going, when I doubt anyone would care what they do at all. It’s all being fed to them
I’ve been very disillusioned for sure. I think the pointed term is that it depends on a “well-informed electorate”. Except, what if the electorate is willfully ignorant, lazy, resentful, and hateful? This isn’t being taken advantage of in only the US either. It’s a fundamental flaw.
Its almost as if these old white people _don’t _ understand how teenagers think
They actually did. They called it Google Play Music, and Google TV/Google Play Videos. I paid for those. Youtube Music and Youtube premium are the enshittified versions of those, and they will continue to make them worse.
This used to be the case, but it’s a different equation now. Ads used to be one or two per video. Fine, I get there are bills to pay.
Now it’s pure greed and pushing us to a subscription for a service they purposely made shitty so we would think exactly what you are. 4-5 ads, with forced ads interrupting the videos, and auto redirects to more ads after the video fonishes. Unskippable multi-minute ads.
And if you’re thinking “well then just pay for it”, tell that to Netflix, Hulu, and all of the streaming services that were “ad-free” until they decided that actually, pay twice as much or watch ads (even though your paying).
So while I understand you’re saying, you’re assuming Google will play fair. They won’t. They will up the price, they will still force ads, and it will get worse. I’m taking a stand now saying enough is enough. I’m not rewarding them for enshittifying the service.
You see, the reason you didn’t know was because we had eradicated it before you morons decided you were smarter than the entire science and medical community because you watched some youtube videos
Which makes me sad, I find their culture really interesting, and I would love to visit, meet them and have a drink, but because of exactly that I’m very hesitant to do so.