Meat heist is unironically a real thing

Starting at step 0 is an important part of the programming process

I didn't know that Google built encryption on top of the standard, I thought it was part of it.

Besides that though, Google would be making the dumbest business move if they didn't let Apple's potential RCS implementation talk to theirs.

Besides that, the point that RCS is still an open standard stands and should replace SMS just because of how archaic and old it is. Heck, there's still a character limit.

My brain can think logically (like mathematical logic) but I have minimal practice. I'm not an amazing coder but I can get by.

The issue is content. Sites like daily motion didn't have the content to bring in the user base. No users means less incentive to make content means less incentive to make content for it, means less users and so on... that's the real reason no one's got competition

There's a European store near my house called wedel lmao. I'll see if they have it there

Enough that your insurance rates will probably go up

Yeah, but where's the user base and content? That's why YouTube is successful.

As much as I love to shit on Elon Musk and ~~twitter~~ X, the fact that he's paying users that generate traffic to his website means that he realizes the importance of user generated content. That's one good thing I commend him for.

The problem is that running a video streaming platform is too expensive for there to be competition and YouTube is the only platform with the user base to be able to do it while being profitable. If you want no ads because ads are annoying but you also don't want to pay for premium, you're advocating for piracy (which I'm not against either), but if you expect them to keep the servers running even after that, you're not living in reality

Just to add one more thing, if your criticism of premium is that they still collect your data after that, fair enough (get newpipe), but if you simply want to use YouTube for free and aren't that bothered about your privacy (like when you use adblock on a browser) then that's not consistent with that argument either.

That's a fair criticism. I personally don't care about it because I gave up on the idea of having any privacy ages ago but I get that people may not be happy with that.

If I were to play devil's advocate, I can say that the data they collect is important for serving you the right videos but let's be real here, Google definitely uses it to serve you ads everywhere else

I am lawful neutral but my mom's lawful evil and she throws the fucking thing away so I can't even do it :((

I literally only switched because of Boost. Also, since Boost for Reddit still works for me, I continue to use that as well