I value YouTube, at most, at about $5 a month. I can easily do without it.

There you have it. If the cost of the service is not worth it, then users won’t buy it. Either enough users will pay for it that the service will stay as it is for the price it is, they will decrease the cost of the service, or improve the service they are offering. Or, given Google’s track record, just kill of the service entirely.

I will also point out that many users pay for Spotify for $11 USD a month. YouTube premium includes YT Music, which is a direct competitor to Spotify. So for users who pay for Spotify, it would be virtually $3 for ad-free YouTube. Of course this doesn’t work if you don’t pay for a music streaming service, but as far as services go it certainly isn’t unreasonably priced. Sure, it may be unfair that they don’t offer just a YT ad-free package, perhaps with all this backlash they will. Or perhaps not. It’s Google, they’ll do whatever they fuck they want.

While I think Google is a monster that needs to be destroyed, it’s silly to me that your two options are either block ads or leave. The third option would be pay for the service. If your only problem is the ads and not the tracking (which probably isn’t true, but it’s the only complaint you made in the comment), then paying for it is a valid solution. It shouldn’t be controversial to say video hosting costs money to run, which obviously includes YouTube. So giving it out for free is simply not a realistic option. You’re free to leave, but you won’t have anywhere else to go that meets the “free and no ads” requirement. If you realistically don’t want ads, you will have to pay. And if you’re fine with paying, YouTube is currently the platform with the most content to offer.

Honestly, I’m thankful paying is an option. I wish Google would offer a paid package overall to stop the tracking/data collection. I would literally just give them my money for actual privacy with their services.

It is not well documented that our phones are sending keywords to advertisers from audio. Are phones always listening? Yes. How else would they be activated. And anything you tell it after activating it is going to be stored. But outside that, there is no reason for phones to save what you say. Most of that audio is entirely useless to them. If you have the documentation of them sending audio recordings to advertisers, I’d love to see it.

Where are you that 7 days a week 12 hour days is full time? That’s literally just always working. Standard full time in the states is 40 hour work weeks.

You don’t want someone who wants to get something out of you

Every corporation ever

Nah, it’s okay. The google chrome built in password manager is one of the worst options

“Way better” is an exaggeration in my mind. It may have a few nicer things here and there, but name one thing 1Pass can do that Bitwarden can’t? It certainly has a different UI, but I definitely preferred this over my former LastPass account.

I haven’t had a problem with auto fill. Especially once you regularly use their default ctrl+shift+L to autofill. It may also be worth noting that some custom fields, if you make the name the exact same as the field, it will include that in the autofill. One of the sites I use has a company ID, and it autofills that too.

Did you mean to say “removed”? We’re talking about the word “retard”

It means someone has a developmental disability. But that is not how people used it. They used it to call someone an idiot, 100%. If someone did something dumb, they would retort “retard”. How is that not exactly how it was/is used? Call them a bafoon, hammerhead, numskull, nincompoop, a schnook, make up a word for all I care. But to use a word that describes someone with a developmental disability should not be used as an insult. Don’t complain about there not being a substitute when there’s hundreds of options. You just seem to want to use it.

It literally is just a substitute for idiot. There are tons of words you can use. Here’s a list of 123: https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/idiot

Yea, I’ll correct anyone who says it. People may not love it, but there needs to be people calling out other people for shit. A little different direction, but still similar, is men calling out other men for sexist shit. Sexist men often don’t listen to women, but the moment their buddy says something they start to think.

You may lose a few friends doing this, but the people you probably want to be hanging out with will respect you more for it. I find people appreciate being willing to call them out, it takes guts. It takes a real man to call out sexist little boys, and also those who still use the outdated term “retarded” to call someone stupid.

I mean, it is the same people after all

I’m curious, what’s your system. I need something. I also have a problem where I’ll put rechargeable batteries in a device, and then not use the device for months to years, where the batteries sit there unused.

VSCodium takes the binaries for VS code and assembles it without Microsofts telemetry

Realistically, the only thing we can do is make sure people understand to a certain extent what privacy they are giving up, what that can mean for them, and what are their options to increase privacy (both practical and advanced, for those that want to know). If they fully understand what it means and they truly don’t care about their privacy, there is nothing that can be done.

Though I think most people care about their privacy when it comes to physical privacy. Nobody wants a stranger looking over their should at their phone screen. How many people would care if someone were sitting further with binoculars looking at the screen? Would people not care if they have their physical space, or would people care more about the fact that someone is watching what they’re doing? Let’s say anytime you got on the subway, it was guaranteed someone was always watching over your shoulder (tbf they might be), would you give up riding the subway? Some might, but I feel like people would make the compromise of their privacy for the convenience of the service. The only realistic way to get them to not take the subway would be to give them a private option that is just as practical. Otherwise, people would often give up the privacy for convenience.

Why are you signing your messages ~Bazoogle

Honestly, I feel like it’s from technological incompetence. These people don’t understand how a basic website works. They think facebook is entirely on their phone. Which, don’t get me wrong, there isn’t really anything wrong with an older person not understanding how it works. But it’s entirely different when you’re the one responsible for making decisions on laws involving technology.

Technology is developing at mach speed, and the government has a pack of snails pulling it forward. Couple that with many of the people making decisions being ancient, and you have laws that are not even close to matching our technology. Shoot, even photography laws are outdated. In the US, photography laws are practically non-existent. The only laws that apply to people taking pictures are trespassing laws. If you’re allowed to stand there, and you can see it, you can take a picture. Laws weren’t really needed when cameras weren’t in every single persons pocket all the time.

You were saying in the example of the government requesting the data. That’s not any different for reddit or Lemmy. If anything, it would be harder to get from Lemmy since it’s decentralized. And reddit is known to comply with government warrants.

Almost is the keyword. You’d still save a few bucks