Imagine being killed by your tax.

Wipe your shit, wash your ass and wipe again to dry off your anus.

Most of their ads are still skippable, aren’t they?

In my experience, no.

And can you prove no one asked for a premium service? I certainly recognize ads are a way to pay content creators and would like an alternative way to pay them in exchange for not seeing ads, so that already disproves your claim.

I said annoying ads and premium service. If ads were not annoying and you still wanted to support your content creators without watching ads; that’s fine, premium service sounds a good solution to you. But Google chose the asshole way. They bombarded us with ads if we wanted not to pay. Even though I hate ads I am not against them. They should be short and not annoying.

And what does YouTube being profitable have to do with paying content creators, anyway?

If it’s profitable they can pay content creators.

YouTube, who were known for running at a loss for years at the start, needs a way to pay content creators as well as pay for server costs to host YouTube videos.

Google is known for killing their services if they don’t bring money. Let’s assume what you said is true, so you are telling me that Google paid from their pocket and waited patiently till they became monopoly so they can execute their asshole plan?

Sure, they are also greedy, but watching content without paying the creators is not the actual way to fight that, is it? If you disagree with how Google runs YouTube, just stop watching YouTube instead of punishing the content creators.

Google built an empire by tracking us through the web sites before ad blockers are a thing. I’m punishing Google not content creators. If Google cared about content creators they wouldn’t behaved like this in the first place. Why would care about content creators when their employer Google does not give a f**k about them?

Go watch them on alternative platforms where you can directly pay for their content like Patreon or Ko-Fi.

I haven’t heard about Ko-Fi before . I’ll take a look at that.

And finally I should add that Google is a danger to the internet. With this “pay for premium or you’ll watch more ads then the content” bullshit they are becoming a role model to other streaming services.

Skippable and short ads were fine. No one asked for annoying ads and a “premium” service. And it was already profitable. Greedy Google wanted more money.

It is not about money. Google created a problem and then asked money to solve it. If I were a billionaire I still wouldn’t paid a single penny.

I believe they want to process photos and videos to train their AI.

Asshole Google is doing asshole things. Before switching to Lineage OS this thing annoyed me so much. A few days ago I saw this prompt when using my father’s phone and I couldn’t believe that this thing is still happening. Google is so stubborn.

Talking to people loudly?

“the territory”

Well in Turkish, meme beans boob/breast.

Got all achievements in The Binding of Isaac (flash version).

I’m saying that if the US spies other countries with their closed source softwares and hardwares with backdoors they should not cry like babies. US is like “I want to be only one who spies other countries.” That’s my point. Do you think if US would let strong countries to ask Google, Apple, Amazon, Meta to sell themselves to local companies if they want to keep operating in these countries?

If the US said “China does not let our companies to operate there so we can not let Chinese companies to operate in the US” I’d be okay for that. Justifying Tiktok ban in the name of national security and privacy what sounds hypocritical to me.

What is the difference if both countries access to user data at the end no matter easier or harder way? US is trying to block Tiktok under the name of national security but US itself has been violating other countries’ national security and privacy of people of these countries for years. What bothers me is people like you support this hypocritical action.

Do you seriously believe in this?

Problems with this app go beyond just privacy and bleed into national security.

Entire world should ban US based apps in this case.