Ah thank you for the clarification!

Signal does not require a phone number to register anymore, afaik.

Your comment wording implied cause to my reading.

Look, I’m not a huge fan of capitalism but it’s a little silly to pretend that the world was free from corruption prior to capitalism.

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https://youtu.be/yc2udEpyPpU

My dawg, I was just being pedantic for comedic effect. Didn’t land. 🤷

If it doesn’t have a price, I cannot extract its worth for the purposes of paying my rent. Unless you’re implying I pay my rent with the grail itself, which I don’t think is a good deal.

Priceless doesn’t do me much good when my rent is very much quantifiable.

Paru

You have a point except the portability. A single USB drive is infinitely more portable than a large cd collection.

This would not be gaslighting. Gaslighting would be, for example, saying the negative thing didn’t happen at all, not trying to cover it up with positive spin.

Premium Lite is already a thing.

That’s not what business is inherently; that’s what capitalism is.

All My Love by London Grammar. Retrograde by James Blake.

I actually think there is some value in the way YT is trying to do it versus other streamer sites. Most are not available to you at all for free, even with ads. And then you can pay, but get ads, or you can pay more to get no ads (or still get some, in the case of like Prime Video that serves ads for their own shows but don’t call those ads for some reason).

This is not a recommendation for it, to be clear.

For what it’s worth, I used a VPN on my Premium account many times over several years and never got banned, or even a warning. I would specifically use it to watch videos that were not normally available in my region.

A cheaper tier than Premium that offers fewer features. Along with this, there’s still some ads.

Are you sure they don’t have Premium Lite?

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There’s a difference between AB testing, and fraud. Charging someone a sub cost to not see ads, and then AB testing if you can get away with still showing them ads, is fraud. If they saw ads with Premium, it’s a million times more likely it was an error, but I frankly just don’t believe it. That’s just my opinion.