Which shitshow? Imo that's like saying the internet is forever stained by whatever "shitshow" there was. It's just a technology, there are good and bad applications
Stumblinbear
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One could argue that we're paying for it without our consent
One could argue that the Flying Spaghetti Monster exists. That doesn't make it remotely true.
Google doesn't pay anything in taxes
Uh. Google pays a shitload in taxes. There hasn't been a single year that they HAVEN'T paid taxes. They paid 11 billion in income taxes alone in 2022.
DDG doesn't really compare to Google search results. I can hardly find anything I'm looking for when it's pretty much always on the first page of Google
Which is really unfortunate because there are some actually useful, neat projects
Nebula can only afford to do that because basically nobody who subs to nebula actually watches the videos on it. They did a video about their revenue model and people treat it as a way to support the creators, not to actually watch content
They'd absolutely 100% be losing money with a $2 ad free tier. Ads make significantly more than that per user per month. Same with your """solution""" for higher res video. Bandwidth is goddamn expensive.
I mean you didn't buy it before so why would you now? You don't need excuses. You just don't want to pay for it. Own it.
Honestly, I'd be fine with even 20. Much more than that and I'd be questioning it pretty hard. I watch YouTube tons and know how goddamn expensive cloud bandwidth is so I'm biased
Probably because it's less noisy in small text
So... A form of democracy?
For reference this is about $20 USD
Oh sure I'm not a huge fan of the GPU shortages, though very few crypto things need them anymore
Depends entirely on where you live and if you trust your government, but yes the USA and most Europen countries are fine in general. I personally just prefer anything that can be decentralized. That's why I'm on Lemmy, after all, haha