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  • halcyoncmdr@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldDark Times
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    20 days ago

    Many people now don’t use any wired internet connected devices. So wifi being out at home means none of their devices have internet.

    Maybe an exception for their cell phone. Even then a lot of people have limited mobile data plans and rely on their home internet most of the time.


  • Don’t know, the couple of articles I saw going around didn’t actually have any actual info in them, just the report by a random person in Germany which is one of the Premium Lite (or whatever they want to call it) regions.

    I don’t really care that much to be honest. I pay for YouTube Premium. My region doesn’t have a Lite option. I pay for several reasons, not just the lack of ads. I pay so the content creators I watch get paid more for my view. I pay for no ads. I pay for the bundled YouTube Music. All of those are part of my usage. The lack of ads is only one aspect. For others that may be different, and for them the price justification may be different as well if they’re only paying to remove ads.

    Not to mention that partial ad experiences at a lower cost are an inevitable middle option to regular ad and no-ad options. YouTube isn’t anywhere near the first to do this, and they definitely won’t be the last. Complaining about it will do absolutely nothing, they don’t give a shit and the only people that could force a change are shareholders, who only care about profits at this point. Customer satisfaction for a company like Google means fucking nothing.

    So why expend the energy? That can be focused elsewhere to much more effect.





  • That it was. Vista was Microsoft finally starting to enforce practices they’d been telling developers to do for years. Things like forcing most drivers out of the kernel and forcing developers to use user folders for settings and configuration instead of the Program Files folder.

    The annoying UAC prompts all the time were because of lazy developers not doing what they were supposed to be doing for years already.