I think there's SmartTube for smartTv's. Not sure how parental control stuff works.

Yeah, Nebula is great. But other than being not Google, their platform works in similar ways. You pay, you get content.. I mean, how could they even change that anyway?

Basically, not sure how Apple does it though. You have a Google family group. You can add individual accounts to that. The group owner cannot see any activities of other accounts, but he could remove people without their permission.

Removed users only lose active family subscriptions like youtube premium and google one (storage). Their watch histories and whatnot will remain the same. Watch out with Google one. If you have Google one and use more storage than google free, then remove google one, you only get a limited time period to remove data over the limit. Afterwards it gets inaccessible, I don't think they delete anything, but no insurance on that.

The textbook this person owns:

service provider: "Hello, I'm a window cleaner, do you want me to clean your windows? I'll actually do it for free this time! Please recommend me to your peers"

customer: "yes please"

service provider: "all done! Want me to do it again in three months time?"

customer: "yes, I love free stuff!"

service provider: "actually, I'd have to charge for that, can't work for free all the time."

customer: "Racketeering!"

Lass einfach gar kein Ziele mehr setzen, für die Umsetzung muss man ja was tun und das ist viel Arbeit.

Du musst da auch zwischen haben müssen und haben wollen trennen. Ich muss Bohnen kaufen, ohne Bohnen (oder andere gesunde Nahrungsquelle) werde ich sterben. Da machts absolut Sinn das zeitlich befristet reduzierte Produkt zu kaufen. Ich will Deko haben. Die reduzierte Deko ist schöner als meine jetzige Deko. Ich brauch die Deko aber nicht. Ich spare also durch Verzicht 100% der Kosten.

Sprudel ist auch eher Genuss als nur pure Hydration. Meine Freundin kann kaum stilles Wasser trinken, die braucht immer Sprudel... da macht man sich allerdings schon Gedanken, wie die den Tag übersteht.

Oh buddy I get you so well. I'm not german by the way, but I guess DACH is close enough.

I actually do work software development now, even though I said systems engineering in an earlier comment. Systems engineering is 'just' my past, back when I actually learned stuff. Funny enough, I work for the medical sector. Not IN the medical... oh what ze hell... We make software stuff for hospitals and whatnot. At least that's what I'm up to right now and I don't have to tell you, it doesn't feel as good as it should. I am essentially hired for life. As decent people in IT do, I earn more money than one should reasonably spend and demand is so high, I could just sit back and relax 4 days a week with no major consequences other than my team hiring yet another person to compensate for my lazyness.

I don't wanna work there anymore. I probably won't be working there today one year later. Not because we scam people or anything, I just don't think we do justice to what should be expected from us. Our oh so cool product saves lifes and that's good. But shouldn't we care a bit more about better quality control, more efficient workflows, more reliable products?

We're good enough to "win" the capitalism game. People want the thing we make and the thing we make is a good thing. But is it as good as it could be? Definite no. Do others do better? Probably, they just invest more... higher costs. Could that mean that we are inactively killing people because we force them into buying our product due to cost efficiency? Yeah sure but it's not that easy, is it? There's no right or wrong here, really.

So.. anyway.

I see your point about you not blocking ads actually being harmful for the advertiser, because you differ from the average Joe in terms of advertisement influence. But I don't believe that's for us to decide. By opting for advertising a product, companies risk approaching people like you (and ME if we are being honest.. I guess it's the high rate of autism in IT (I'm not gonna include a sarcasm tag here because they stink)), that don't recieve advertisements well and might actively steer away from their product. They contractually do NOT risk their advert not being displayed at all... you see where this is going.

Genug Moralapostel. The existence of ads in modern media is okay with me. I don't exactly wanna see them, but I understand their business model and it's not really all that reprehensible to me. I do prefer straight up pay walls over ad walls... sometimes. At least for video streaming platforms. To be honest it's probably the other way around for most situations. I gladly accept ads on websites if it means I don't have to pay for each and every single website access all the time. Moral dillemmas everywhere.

I don't think our opinions differ all that much. We basically had a "well if you feel like this, why don't you do this?" "oh it was just a hypothetical, I actually already do this. But this and such.." "Ah yes, but no but, this and that"

I don't feel like adressing every point seperately because I'm just slothing with my cat in my bed right now. I'll just be rambling a bit.

Anyways. Yeah sure, Google is a bad company in many regards, I'm with you. Morals and ethics are about as subjective as it gets, so here's my take on that. Just because some entity is morally in the wrong doesn't justify my own actions, whatever they may be. What makes it fair to obtain goods and services from Google without paying the price? It's quasi-stealing but I already brought that up before. If the Alphabet Corp. (Google and stuff) is so bad, then maybe you should avoid their products by principle.

I know in the grand scheme it doesn't matter what I do. The odds of my actions actually doing anything at all are quite low. Where I'm from people used to say "somewhere a bag of rice tipped over". It's inconsequential. And I believe that's true in everyday life but I also know it's not true in the grand scheme. While I am an individual, I have to look at my actions as if they are not. It doesn't matter if I burn through 100 gallons of petrol a day... but it does matter if we all do it.

So yes, I agree with you in each and every way. Except I somehow also don't. It's really hard to live by the same morals and ethics each and every day. Utilitarism sounds good.. but not for everything, same goes for deontology. Many concepts in ethics are not compatible with eachother and I don't think it's "normal" to even strive to find your own morals.

Google may be bad, but their business model with YouTube specifically isn't really all that evil. They maintain a well established, feature rich platform and people get to share their content on that site for free. A small percentage earns money or even gets to make a living through that. They also maintain said platform for advertisers with promises on how often their ads will be shown and how they will be placed, received and forced upon a user. In this instance it's not entirely clear who the bad guy is. All of em, kind of.

I studied for a bit a few years back and we had a series of courses called "ethics for engineers". It was mainly about figuring out what you get to do and what you have to do as an engineer of any kind in terms of ethics. Right now I'm wondering, would I really feel all that bad as a software engineer or whatnot at such a company? It really depends I guess. Sure, increasing the ad counter from 2 to 3 sucks for users. Yet they accept it in some way u know? If they didn't accept, they wouldn't stay on YouTube. Using YouTube is not something you are forced to, you could, at any time, just stop. So, if supplying more ads is really totally nessecary to have the platform be profitable (which, be honest, in some form or another, it must be), it's morally sound. Would it really be better to let the platform die? I don't belive so. I believe the platform kind of self regulates in a sense that it would just die off it they took any negative aspect too far.

I don't know what they promise their content creators... this view might look completely different by the way.

So. Yeah. Dunno. I don't think "cheating" YouTube by blocking ads or whatnot is all that fair. It's still legal, though. Probably still better to stay away if you believe that they are such a bad company.

One of my friends once made a "crown of dumb". It was used at their summer camp to reward the dumbest action of the day for the tutors. Sadly, it never fit anyone because it was way too big, they could wear it as a necklace basically... until we recently found it in one of his moving boxes, and it fit me like a glove. Guess I'm the king of dumb now.

Anyway. I mostly wear headphones in office or while playing games, not so much music nowadays.. somehow moved on to in ears for that, since headphones don't really do as well outdoors (maybe because they don't fit).

I'm not really looking to buy new headphones, usually I just self assemble some stupid solution. For example, one of my headphones has a piece of bicycle tubing around the headband, holds up quite well.

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