After all… Why not?

Why shouldn’t I ignore the 100+ cultures whose character set couldn’t fit into this encoding?

How dare you use facts to challenge our beliefs!!

First thing I do to a tv is flick it into a colour graded mode and flick all motion smoothing off.

Agree that it’s HDR, not actually resolution that makes that much difference.

What, you don’t think there’s work to do for a stay at home partner? From my observation, it’s one of the hardest jobs there are (that is if you actually take on all the home keeping duties as part of this - I’m not speaking about trophy-partners here).

As someone married to a woman I can tell you that I’ve got a strong data signal that it’s not necessarily your gender keeping you from forcing people to watch videos.

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And a good covfefe to you sir!

I agree that it would make more sense if they called it a “household” plan. That’s clearly what it is.

By Darwin you see a lot. I was merely stating that I think YouTube premium is worth the price I pay for it.

Is there no product you are satisfied with? Your life must be pretty bleak.

Is recommending a product that you’re satisfied with “shilling”?

Is there a product in this world that you think is worth the price? Does that make you a shill?

You mean removing sponsor led segments inside a video? Sort of. The jump ahead feature, which I think is a premium feature, allows you to jump in the video based on where everywhere else is jumping in the video. So when a sponsored segment starts and you skip forward 30s (double tap on mobile, ‘k’ on PC) you are offered to jump ahead. You click that and you get to the end of the sponsored segment.

YouTube steals other people’s work?

I tend to watch content creators who willingly put their content on YouTube. Am I missing something here…?

I know. I thought we were upvoting respectful debate, not having a popularity contest. But apparently not…

It’s a product. You can buy it or not. If you don’t think it’s worth it, stay away, or stay on the free tier. You’re acting as if you’ve got some kind of right to use a service that’s provided by a commercial entity.

It’s too expensive agreed. However YouTube has a lot of discounted memberships through other services. I wouldn’t pay full price for it, but through my mobile phone company I get more than 50% off and that’s a bloody great deal.

Same here. I’ve cancelled Netflix, never got Disney plus, never use prime (though I think I have access to something through prime shipping).

YouTube however; I watch this every single day, use it for learning, relaxation, documentaries etc.

It’s a fantastic platform and well worth the subscription AFAICS.

If you pay, the platform remains great. I get a discounted YouTube premium membership through my mobile phone company. I think YouTube is great, I never see ads, lots of features.

Just to offer an alternative view.

Sort of the same system they’re building in Denmark.

You will log into MitID (myID), authenticate with the MitID app, then be issued a bunch of ZKP tokens which you’ll burn off against age verification services. No trace, fully authenticated, fully trusted, damn near impossible to fool.

Ok. I get the concept that pornography doesn’t harm children. We can debate that.

But by that reckoning should we also allow children to buy guns online and have them delivered at home? Is there nothing we want to restrict online, on account that whoever is buying it might be too young?