But how is it different than those of us who access it for free? I get a popup asking me to pay once a month but that's about it. Are you just happy to throw your money away if it goes to a giant corporation?
> Are you just happy to throw your money away if it goes to a giant corporation?
45% (which is a lot) of the money goes to the giant corporation. The other 55% gets divided up among the people whose content you watched.
I mostly watch smaller creators, so I don't mind 55% of my membership fee ending up in their pockets so they can keep making videos for me to enjoy.
I don't watch ads, the people I watch get paid because I watched. And obviously I'm not happy about the cut google takes and I would rather a higher percentage of my money go to the creators.
Just turn off Javascript. When a page won't give you and article without Javascript just don't read it. A scammy popup asking someone to pay money before you can read an article is not some place a hacker would send somebody.
"Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past."
It's a bargaining tactic from a lunatic. Trump thinks countries will call him offering to do things to have the tariffs removed. You are applying reason to someone who has been showing signs of dementia for decades.
Imagine a conversation about good options for message queues, and someone pipes in with this:
"I've been a sysadmin operating RabbitMQ and Redis for five years. I've found Redis to be a great deal less trouble to administer than Rabbit, and I've never lost any data."
Feel free to come up with a better example that uses the same basic pattern: someone online claims that they have prior experience with X and hence advises you to do Y.
The world has been full of snake oil salesmen since the dawn of time, all with a highly persuasive sob-stories.
If you rely on shortcuts, like anecdotes or 'credentialism' for those who profess to be experts, then you will get rolled over regularly. That's the cost of using shortcuts.
That information may be fraudulent and put forward by this season's Dr Andrew Wakefield has to be factored into any plan for using external sources.
Unless a comment is negative like "I used ABC and it was shit for the following reasons" I assume it is as fake as a 5-star movie review written by the director. I would definitely prefer to know why I should not use, watch, or play something rather than why I should. But since this is an anonymous post on the internet about ai slop you shouldn't listen to me anyway.
