That’s just called malware

:)

You can be a perfectly good dev and not enjoy working in the cli, especially when there are good enough alternatives

So being recommended videos is bad now? Dam

That’s kinda the point

Oh man, the absolute horror of being told about new features! The absolute abject tragedy!

It was probably shown to you in a banner that looked like an ad that you closed out /s

I mean, I like being told about new features rather than needing to discover them myself twenty months after they came into existence

Candidate Who Won With Most Votes Ever in US History

Which has the exact same vibe as “the stock market hit all time highs!”

Yeah, no shit. The population is increasing. What else is new?

TOML is my bestie

They’ll release a second one, but never a third. It’s what they do

That’s really just not the case at all. It’s perfectly doable to get $5 a month per ad free user, so depending on how many creators and videos you watch they’d get that amount out of you every couple of weeks

You’d be surprised. Half the cost of premium goes to creators, and making $5-7 per user per month through ads is definitely doable. That equals pretty much exactly the cost of premium

I personally don’t value YouTube Premium because I know nothing goes to content creators except for the fact that it covers ad revenue income without showing ads.

Uh. Half of the cost of premium gets distributed to the creators you watch, and it’s a non-insignificant amount of money.

Hard to say they’re stealing when you give consent by agreeing to their ToS

Google isn’t entitled to make money by simply hosting reaction videos and hyperbolic political commentary.

This just in: man thinks storage, computing power, and bandwidth is free!

I have premium and have never seen this before

Anything is better than nothing. Besides, it’s still useful because you can see where the original link was copied from, and you still have the referrer header

There are common, well-known tracking parameters that Google uses such as the ones starting with “utm_”

DDG doesn’t really compare to Google search results. I can hardly find anything I’m looking for when it’s pretty much always on the first page of Google