gohixo9650 @ gohixo9650 @discuss.tchncs.de

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ok, so the word "plus" is used to indicate that it is a streaming service. Got it

boo-hoo-hoo poor mega corps, I'm pretty sure the CEOs of these companies were paying by their own money the price difference of the true cost and the decreased subscription price of all the customers and they will walk out poorer. Not with millions in their pockets.

US americans are complaining for nasa, public schools if they don't have kids, public health sector, even for bike lanes because they use no bikes, but almost never for all the military expenses on the other side of the earth.

sure. However "plus" means that something is additional to something else. And the question here is what is the basic product that makes this one be the additional

in the 90s there was no technology to have an overlay of an ad following you while you scroll and when you close it a new one appears more aggressively. Or to let you start reading an article and then suddenly appear in your face not allowing you to continue. Yes, there was the worse situation that they would open a whole new window, but browsers started restricting it quite early

Once I was using a girlfriend's laptop and I told her very casually "I'm adding an adblock" when she replies me "no don't block them, I like them because sometimes I find nice offers in the ads" and I froze. I wasn't expecting that and I was so baffled like "what do you mean you like them, how do you live seeing more ads than what you originally came for" lol

or get an open source, free and privacy friendly one from f-droid in case you haven't tied your hands with an iphone

sure if you prefer to support the google monopoly

firefox for android + ublock origin and/or adguard-dns

The IT crowd

yeah you're right actually. I always use it combined with a local browser adblock and didn't think of that

yeah you're right actually. I always use it combined with a local browser adblock and didn't think of that

but this means that she would see the ads but not being able to click? I don't get it. They should had just disappeared, no? Or was she complaining that she wasn't seeing the ads?

ok, I think I had missed this crucial difference in the business model lol

interesting. thanks for sharing!

a bit off topic but when you say personal instance where is it hosted? And if it is strictly personal, doesn't google create the same profile for you which will be assigned in your IP if it is hosted in your house, or in your VPS's IP if hosted elsewhere?

I'm also curious why people pretend it doesn't exist when they say "there is no other video uploading platform like youtube"

I’m not quite sure who in particular you’re referring to in your last statement and surely I’ve misinterpreted what you mean with it, but to be clear, I personally don’t think it would be fair towards employees to slash their income and expect them to work without making ends meet so that the rest of us to enjoy a recreational service.

what are you even talking about? I never said employees' income should be slashed or expect them to work without making ends meet. I just said, that in such big corps, even though that in the papers they may saw declined numbers or even be below zero, there are still a few people (see executive board) who still make tremendous amounts of money. A CEO will always walk out with millions in their pockets because, well, that was their salary and the company's debts are not their own debts, so, well, capitalism. Ok, the company failed, there is no money to pay off debts and employees, but the money they made from the company is now theirs and cannot be asked back to pay off company debt. Because that's the legal system, the company was different entity. There is nobody liable for it in terms of personal liability.

It is always the lower level employees who take the hit.

I think it’s a very nuanced stance to suggest that price changes aren’t solely driven by corporate greed

do you seriously believe that the CEO of netflix was struggling to survive, was living on a month-by-month paycheck, and was having any cut in their "wage" ?

Some people tend to forget that behind a corporation that presents numbers that are falling behind, there are humans who make profits regardless.