

YouTube has a paid subscription which is ad free and with additional features. How many of you here, who complain about ads, use YouTube Premium? Mmm?


YouTube has a paid subscription which is ad free and with additional features. How many of you here, who complain about ads, use YouTube Premium? Mmm?


You’re forgetting amortization. You can’t copy a video file to a drive and expect it to last forever. It requires energy to run and the drivers break down over time. Google is one of the largest consumers of HDDs and SSDs in the world. Plus you need to pay engineers who maintain the whole thing, pay the finance team to make orders, etc. And then you have to have recycling and logistics. I bet they dispose of the whole truck loads of old drives every day, you can’t put that many in your recycling bin and call it a day.


No one will ever pay for services like YouTube. Thus ads is the only way.
A few trolls can take America by installing a puppet red head president who will then dismantle the country in a few years time.
No, OsmAnd is pretty bad. Data presentation makes it feel like something out of 1960-s.
That was never the case. Traditional folk tales about vampires were a way to understand corpse decomposition. The narrative changed in 1819.