Stumblinbear @ Stumblinbear @pawb.social

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Depends on which chapter of bankruptcy, which all entail wildly different things. There's bankruptcy that effectively eliminates debt and others which force you and your debtors to come to the bargaining table to restructure your payment plan or they get nothing since you could just file for actual bankruptcy

The difference is if you can afford to pay for the lawyers necessary to create that restructuring or if there's any trust at all that you can pay it off eventually without getting yourself deeper in debt

The polar opposite isn't necessarily better

They're taking information from the page they served you and runs the code they wrote to read the page they served you to ensure what they served you is actually what you're seeing

You're accessing the site, you're continuing to use the site, you are implicitly agreeing to allow the code they run to modify the page you're on

I fail to see how it specifically being used to check that ads are displaying is any different from code running normally in your browser to change the page without refreshing the page entirely

More importantly and actually on subject: how is this immoral? What moral code are they breaking here? You can argue legal semantics, but legality is not morality. You made a moral argument. How is this immoral?

Uh. It's not immoral to read the data they've served to you on the page they're visiting on their own website. I'm honestly genuinely curious what moral argument you could make, here

"Nobody" is a high bar you've set for yourself. There are many people in this thread with the same argument.

How very mature

Assuming it didn't exist for months or years before this. As far as I know, blocking ads has always been against ToS.

which makes it impossible to watch the videos anywhere but on their platform tho

The creators are free to upload content anywhere they want without restrictions. It's not YouTube's fault that they don't.

Then stop making stupid arguments, it only serves to make you look stupid

selling ads was just icing

You're talking about these as if they're separate things. Literally no company in existence harvests your data for any reason other than to serve better ads or to drive business decisions internally. Nobody gives a shit about your data otherwise. Ads are literally the only reason.

as if you were a tin-foil-hat wearing maniac

I mean... If the shoe fits, man.

How is YouTube a monopoly? You can use other platforms, YouTube is just the most popular. There aren't many because it's wildly unprofitable and people refuse to pay for it.

Google DOES make money from ads. A metric tuckton of it. Why the fuck else would they need your data other than to serve better ads???

Immoral? For making you watch ads? How are ads immoral? You're using the service, you watch ads, it's not rocket surgery

RustRover isn't ready for actual usage, I've tried it

Unfortunately RustRover is still garbage for actual usage. And I refuse to use an ORM when I can just write the SQL in a more common syntax that everyone understands across every language instead of whatever inefficient library-of-the-week there is. Raw SQL is fine and can be significantly more performant. Don't be scared.

Calling someone a bigot based entirely on the words they use instead of the intent behind them is a great way to be wrong 80% of the time

While I think this may play a part, YouTube was unprofitable for more than a decade and probably still is right now. It's not greedy to want to pay server costs

My company is heavily considering raising premium prices because ad revenue is now equal to the subscription cost, and we're still very unprofitable. That's not greedy, that's basic business

People take the word "observe" at face value (no pun intended) a bit too often

I literally can withdrawal it. I can convert my points to cash at a 1:1 ratio, or redeem it for a flight and get 15% off the flight. Pretty tangible to me.

Please tell me what IDE you're using that's capable of highlighting SQL syntax that's embedded inside another language source file

Also please fucking stop with the "it's current year stop x." The year is not an argument.