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Oh brother.
It does seem somewhat relevant
It's a doomer, conspiratorial take without any evidence, especially when it's a vailed insinuation.
Susan Wojcicki has died
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Re: Susan Wojcicki has died
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YouTube has worked well. However, I did try their YT Premium, for a while, and was incredibly disappointed in their UI. I assume that the Premium UI was designed for people that use their free tier, but is very strange, to folks like me, who come from other paid services. But I am likely not their target audience. I suppose that YT Premium does well.
I’m not sure what you mean about the UI, but I pay for YouTube Premium exclusively so I don’t have to see ads, and for that purpose alone, to me it’s worth it.
Why not just use an ad blocker?
Re: Susan Wojcicki has died
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I feel like there's an unwritten "recently" in there. If you were to speak ill of Colonel Sanders, nobody would berate you for speaking ill of the dead. But when a CEO like Wojcicki, who made changes that were unpopular to the end-users (but helped turn YouTube into an actual profitable company) dies, it's considered very impolite to use that opportunity to bad-mouth decisions she made. When her son died earlier this…
> "Don't say things that will hurt the feelings of those who are grieving" I for one would prefer "don't get attached to evil people"
Few people are comically evil enough that you can look at them and say "Ah, yes. You are evil. I will not get attached."
Re: Susan Wojcicki has died
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If you live long enough you will most likely die from either heart disease, #2 killer, or cancer, the #1 killer. Accidental self inflicted injury is #3. We're not doing anything wrong. Quite the opposite. Since not even having a billion will allow you to cheat death, perhaps we shouldn't allow billionaires to cheat everyone else in life.
> Accidental self inflicted injury What does that mean?
"The leading causes of death for unintentional injury include: unintentional
poisoning (e.g., drug overdoses), unintentional motor vehicle (m.v.) traffic,
unintentional drowning, and unintentional falls."
https://www.cdc.gov/injury/wisqars/animated-leading-causes.h...
Re: Susan Wojcicki has died
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Why not? Isn't it in "their interest" to keep people alive longer and longer?
A cured customer is a lost customer. Indefinite remission while taking a daily dose is plausible, or maybe $2.5M per head as Zolgensma.
How many people simply wouldn't be able to afford that and thus die?
Wouldn't it be better to have them cured and live longer and just spend their money on curing other illnesses we're all going to have anyway?
There is something about this cynic explanation that just doesn't sound right to me
Re: Susan Wojcicki has died
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It does seem somewhat relevant
It's a doomer, conspiratorial take without any evidence, especially when it's a vailed insinuation.
All evidence starts as anecdotal observation. Even the world’s most groundbreaking papers are, at their root, a collection of anecdotal observations others look into.
Secondly, absence of evidence, is not evidence of absence. Just because there’s no evidence for something being harmful, doesn’t mean there’s any evidence proving the something isn’t harmful.
So look, I’m not an antivaxxer, but I say, “prove it.” Instead of saying “there’s no evidence it’s causing cancer,” write papers proving that it can’t be. I have no problem with the burden of proof being on for-profit billion-dollar companies repeatedly convicted of wrongdoing.
Re: Susan Wojcicki has died
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I’m not sure what you mean about the UI, but I pay for YouTube Premium exclusively so I don’t have to see ads, and for that purpose alone, to me it’s worth it.
Why not just use an ad blocker?
Well, YouTube premium will work on every device you can sign in to YouTube on. Adblock is available for the most part, but isn't easily available everywhere.
Re: Susan Wojcicki has died
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To a fairly casual observer like myself, YouTube early on looked like mostly a platform for massive video copyright infringement--especially before home video became so relatively cheap and easy. I don't use it nearly as much as some here but it definitely transformed into something much different for the most part and managed to make it work as a business (at least as part of Google).
Younger folks forget that YouTube launched (2005) a few years before both the iPhone launched and Netflix pivoted to streaming (2007). In that weird era, (a) average home Internet connections became fast enough to support streaming video (with a healthy adoption growth rate), (b) the most widely deployed home recording device was likely still the VCR (digitizing analog video from cable to burn to DVD was a pain), (c)…
The slogan "Broadcast Yourself" was really inspiring at the time, because it actually was kinda hard to do that at scale in video.
Re: Susan Wojcicki has died
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To a fairly casual observer like myself, YouTube early on looked like mostly a platform for massive video copyright infringement--especially before home video became so relatively cheap and easy. I don't use it nearly as much as some here but it definitely transformed into something much different for the most part and managed to make it work as a business (at least as part of Google).
Younger folks forget that YouTube launched (2005) a few years before both the iPhone launched and Netflix pivoted to streaming (2007). In that weird era, (a) average home Internet connections became fast enough to support streaming video (with a healthy adoption growth rate), (b) the most widely deployed home recording device was likely still the VCR (digitizing analog video from cable to burn to DVD was a pain), (c)…
And Cisco didn't acquire Flip until 2009.
Really most of the content that YouTube had available was material recorded off of broadcast/cable which was mostly not available otherwise unless you had recorded it or gotten it off a torrent.