YouTube is but one, and as I said while the story is about yt I was talking Mir in general. How do you pay for content/services in general?

Right now with via ads or a subscription.

How’s that work on tvs?

So, steal everything or something else? Content isn’t free. The ad model exists, but only works if people see the ads.

If everyone blocks all ads, and doesn’t pay a subscription, how’s that work for those providing the service?

I’m not defending YouTube here, just curious what your solution is to have a service and not pay for it.

I do pay for YT family Premium in the US. I watch mostly YT, and it is my music streaming service. I definitely​ liked it more when it was costing me $15/mo for that and was mad when that went to $23. I even tried switching to Spotify and using ad blocking on YT. I didn’t jive with Spotify, and while ad blockers work for YT, it’s a bit of a pain installing them on TV boxes and managing subscriptions across devices, asking with which videos you’ve seen etc.

“Alpha male” victim

I’m here, but not doing much with Arduino’s ATM… most of the new devices I’ve been playing with are ESP32’s connected to my Home Assistant. Much easier for me as a non programmer to edit/modify a yaml file :)

It’s annoying as hell. I can hide shorts on my shield TV YT app from desktop at 30 day increments. It sucks you can’t just turn them off

I’ll continue to not watch shorts, tik toks, reels or any other ADHD inducing short form content.

I don’t care about any game stats for my phone but it is annoying that my P9P XL lags when it’s connected to AA and I want to grab it fast, double click the power button to open the camera and snap a quick picture.

I’ve experienced the same lag with previous Pixels. Assumed it was a RAM issue and maybe it is, but it’s annoying nonetheless.

Ya, I’m not sure that has ever been true as a blanket statement.

*to women

The pay bill button on my capital one CC account doesn’t work on Firefox. Once a month I have to use a chromium based browser.

Something something shocked Pikachu something

My 9 pro did this last Friday when sitting on the AC vent in my car which I too have never seen before.

My 8 pro sat in the same place many times.

AccuBattery. It was some door security app my company uses . I just took away background access.

I’m happy with my choice to upgrade…

The AI stuff is gimmicky of course but for basically questions Gemini is doing ok (quickly getting torque specs for bolts) will out in the garage seems improved over “assistant”.

Battery life has been good after finding a stupid app that was running in the background killing it!!

Lower I275 loop outside Cincinnati near the Cincinnati airport (in Kentucky)

ROFL

I disagree, most of these subscriptions options are all built in and “enabled” if bought. There ain’t no car manufacturers looking to reduce their car prices for us. It’s profit above everything

I’ve only experienced real issues when out of network coverage for a long time.

I make sure I download the areas I’ll visit especially if the network coverage is spotty.

My Ford sync 3 amd my old Tundra with a Kenwood AA radio bot work fine out of service as long as I have the maps downloaded

I have a 2008 tundra a coworker just bought a new one so I asked for a ride. It was nice to see under the enormous center display, the HVAC controls!