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If your answer to those questions is no...

You clearly know my stance about consumption of goods and services. I wouldn't say no to that.

Alphabet is a for profit company. They have every right to be. If they do something, it's to generate income in some way, at some point. Google Maps is here for a multitude of reasons. User data is what comes to mind. They also take sponsorship money. Be a restaurant, pay money to be on top of the "restaurants in x city" results. GSuite has a business model, the free model also tries to make you stay with Google. Of course this stuff can cost money. Of course it's also fine if they absolutely milk you for your personal data, as long as you agree, which in the past (and future) has been a problem... not topic of the day.

If they charge money (or ad consumption) for something and I don't feel like paying, I'm not using. This is the gist of it.

I'm not sure if Linus Tech Tips agree with me, but from context, I'll assume so. Anyway, the free market isn't a real argument to me. All it tells me is that YouTube and most big creators have a solid business model.

My argument consists of basically two aspects:

Paying money for Youtube content is better value than watching ads for YouTube content. Your time and to an extent mental state is, for 95% of users, worth more than that money.

Not paying money and not watching ads is not sustainable and morally reprehensible. Their service doesn't finance itself if nobody grants it any income. It they demand a compensation for their goods and services, you are to either compensate them or forego the offer. You cannot just assume that a bunch of other people compensate for the lost income through you. It morally doesn't work like that. If you do that, you better be okay with financially stablr people stealing in grocery stores too.

Or 5. It holds 6 people... 4 € per person best case. As for now, they aren't enforcing same household sharing only, like Netflix do. I can't tell you about the future.

Also, not to support such behaviour, but if you aren't made of money, I'm totally okay with you teleporting to Argentina, subscribing to YT Premium at maybe 5 $ a month, and teleporting back to never go there again. That doesn't require an argentinian CC.

I'm not sure about legal technicalities, but I do know that it currently works. Personally, I don't risk it if they ever decide to ban associated accounts, because u know, they totally can refuse to service you, if they were to feel like it.

Basically, not sure how Apple does it though. You have a Google family group. You can add individual accounts to that. The group owner cannot see any activities of other accounts, but he could remove people without their permission.

Removed users only lose active family subscriptions like youtube premium and google one (storage). Their watch histories and whatnot will remain the same. Watch out with Google one. If you have Google one and use more storage than google free, then remove google one, you only get a limited time period to remove data over the limit. Afterwards it gets inaccessible, I don't think they delete anything, but no insurance on that.

Homie missed the point. using ublock and sponsorblock is equal to petty theft. Disliking a company doesn't make it morally right to steal from them.

Google tells me 24 bucks for family. That's equal to what I do. I actually do pay that for all of em, but technically, it's just under 5 bucks a person since I share with 4 others.

ITT: "it costs more than 5 bucks a month!" yeah, if you don't share with friends with family, it does. Also, music service included, deduct your spotify payment.

"You can just block ads" You can just miss the whole point.

"I rather support creators directly" I'm happy you do that. YouTube hosting is not free for Google/Alphabet, pay them too, or you'll have to teach each and every creator how to webhost + help em search a "real job" because selfhosted won't pay enough. Also, good fun browsing videos then.

IDK man, paying for YT Premium really isn't that bad. Assuming you already consume YouTube content, that is. And I'm pretty sure that's like 98% of first world population between 4 and 70.

Blocking ads on YouTube is no sustainable solution. Hosting Billions of Gigabytes of on-demand content is SUPER expensive. Like, it actually costs money. Other, wayyy smaller indie creator on-demand video platforms charge 5 bucks a month, but i'ts okay if they do it, because they aren't big bad Alphabet.

If that's your view, you don't have a problem with pricing, you have a problem with morals. And if you still do voluntarily consume YouTube content in private, with or without ads in any which way, you inarguably have a huge problem with your own morals.

YouTube premium is a good deal. It's priced very well compared with competition, it actually does pay indie creators and it let's you access to features that many users really do use.

BUTBUT THEY ARTIFICIALLY LIMIT FEATURES FOR NO REASON WITHOUT PREMIUM. I mean, it's subscription software and streaming, what else would they do? Every for profit subscription software provider and their mother does this. I develop hospital software and we literally do exactly this. If hospital A has feature x and hospital B also wants that, we don't just hand that out for free even when we just have to add it to their system in like 10 minutes... what did you expect? They already use our software (like you use YouTube), we don't have a huge incentive to just randomly add features if nobody paid for it. If we do, be happy about it, send me a gift card, if we or they don't, that's just business.

Lass dir bitte durch dritte helfen. Manchmal ist das nicht so toll fürs Ego, aber für ein übermässig grosses Ego haben wir momentan eh keinen Platz. Sei stark und gestehe dir die Notsituation ein.

Falls möglich, gehe bitte zu Hilfsorganisationen wie die Tafel. Ich verstehe, dass das weh tut, aber alleine tuts noch viel mehr weh.

Lass einfach gar kein Ziele mehr setzen, für die Umsetzung muss man ja was tun und das ist viel Arbeit.

By extension, air cooling is global thermal mass cooling, which, by extension is radiative cooling, which by extension is universal entropy cooling or whatever you'd call that.

An die ganzen Auto-/Individualverkehrs-Hater: ein grosser Teil der "Kosten" ist Wertverlust der Karre. Das macht natürlich nur bedingt Sinn. Marktwert ist ja für nen Privatnutzer nicht dasselbe wie Nutzwert.

An die Öffi-Hater: Ich hab Arbeitskollegen, die kommen locker auf € 500 den Monat, tatsächliche Kosten. Man frage sich, warum die nicht mit dem Zug ins Büro kommen, bzw. warum die überhaupt jeden Tag ins Büro wollen. Zum Teil sind deren Zugverbindungen eh schneller, aber dann müsste man ja erste Klasse lösen, "in der Zweiten setz ich mich sicher nicht hin".

Aber ein Helm verhindert nicht Unfälle, sondern mindert das Risiko einer starken Kopfverletzung.

Ja, Verletzungen am Kopf fallen mit Helm im Schnitt deutlich weniger dramatisch aus, als solche ohne, sofern die verglichenen Unfälle gleichwertig sind.

Problem jedoch: Helme führen zu mehr Unfällen. Das wurde mal irgendwo in einem wissenschaftlichen Artikel behandelt und mit deutlicher Signifikanz für Wahr befunden. Ich selbst halte nix von Aussagen ohne Quellen, leider konnt ich die aber aufm Klo gerade nicht finden.

Tja, naja. Auch war im Artikel vermerkt, dass unklar ist, was dazu führt, dass Helmträger mehr Unfälle haben. Tragen riskantere, schnellere, sportlichere Fahrer öfter Helm? Wahrscheinlich. Wird bei der Frage ob man einen Helm trug gelogen? Vielleicht.

Die Idee ist jedoch, dass man sich selbst als Fahrradfahrer sicherer Fühlt, wenn man Schutzausrüstung trägt. Kann ich für mich selbst bestätigen. Auch realistisch: Dritte handeln "Fahrlässiger", wenn der Radfahrer weniger verletzlich wirkt.

Fazit für mich selbst: Helm tragen und so tun als wären alle Verkehrsteilnehmer inkl. mir selbst richtig dumm.