Right but this is an easy win for Starmer. Something very unpopular you can scrap, that is costly, that even if you're a bigot you can recognise isn't working, etc. That's something you can instantly do to create the impression you're very different to the previous party. And the impression, per your comment, is impactful. It really doesn't say much one way or the other about more important policies (e.g. like the Tory cuts that he said pre-election he would not axe).

in the end, you’re leeching off a service you enjoy.

I don't think that's a fair or true statement.

For one thing, the "service" here has risen to a point of ubiquity that it's a de facto public space. Everything is on YouTube – legacy media channels, individual enthusiasts, alternative media outlets, the worlds of tech, fashion, politics, sports – you name it. If you were deprived of all access to it, you would have a qualitatively poorer access of what is going on in society. So it's not equivalent to a traditional service like a trade.

For another, blocking ads is not merely refusal to pay a fee of some kind. Advertisements are cognitively intrusive, designed to affect your willpower and decision-making, used to track and control your behaviour, compromise your digital safety, and turn you into a product for companies to whom you do not give your consent for the opportunity to be exploited. Blocking that system of "payment" is not simply prudent but right, and the choice between paying a monetary fee or being so exploited is not a fair choice at all.

For me, what works perfectly is this setup:

Desktop – Adguard

Android – YouTube ReVanced

Never get adverts ever. The day I'm forced is the day I stop using it altogether.

I used an emoji therefore I am sad he's a bigot and he's a Tory?

No, you've misread the original comment. I said you sound disappointed that Linehan has aligned with the Tories. I used the phrase "a bigot" to refer to GL, because he is; I used the phrase "a collection of bigots" to refer to the Tories, because they are.

Using those phrases in those constructions does not imply anything about what you think or know about the Tories or GL. The phrases are plainly in my voice identifying them by what you can infer I think is factual: their bigotry.

Your sadface emoji generally connotes something like disappointment. So my comment is essentially: oh, you're really disappointed that this guy is aligned with the Tories? Why, when he is a bigot and they are also bigots? Why would you even want him to be aligned with a party you do support?

picking random fights based on your poor reading skills

Irony. Helluva thing.

Considering the version you were given by the author could be watermarked in some way, and they could get into shit from a publisher if you uploaded it for mass retrieval, you ought not to do this without their express permission. It's different if you had downloaded the article from a journal/database yourself, or if it was some other version (like an unformatted manuscript).

So do people in the US chiefly send messages via SMS rather than WhatsApp and others like it? That's so bizarre to me haha.

Are we allowed FOSS alternatives to common FOSS apps lol? In which case, I'm saying NeoStore > F-Droid.

Also, separately, Zotero > all commercial reference manages and increasingly over PDF readers too.

Yeah it is pretty solid. I used to use KeepassX, which while also a very cool project, was a bit more tinkering than needed. I hosted the database on a mainstream cloud provider though, and figured at that point, you might as well use the cloud storage of a company with a great security reputation instead and just bundle all together. And so BitWarden.

As much as I thought her original comments were disappointingly wrongheaded, or at the very least poorly put, she's right about the procedural issues with this investigation. It stands as yet another example of the Starmer project's chief goal: to purge the party of its left.

Basically: American teenagers/kids think Android is backwards and uncool, even though this is false; Android historically and presently more capable than iOS etc. But big problem for Google in this market. Partly driven by fact that most popular Android phones are cheap and full of bloatware. Some optimism in the Pixel sales and Google should push their own hardware more to address the problem /end

Think you've missed the point a bit of OP's comment. They're asking not how the end-user is protected from copyright claims, but how the debrid service itself is.

I think to the uninitiated it's a bit of a minefield. Are there guides to the best providers, and ones you can subscribe to using anonymous forms of payment?