That’s just called malware

:)

You can be a perfectly good dev and not enjoy working in the cli, especially when there are good enough alternatives

So being recommended videos is bad now? Dam

That’s kinda the point

Oh man, the absolute horror of being told about new features! The absolute abject tragedy!

It was probably shown to you in a banner that looked like an ad that you closed out /s

I mean, I like being told about new features rather than needing to discover them myself twenty months after they came into existence

Yeah but the basic “give me my subtitles for this specific movie” very likely still works just fine, because… that’s like the whole reason they exist

You just need to move to the new API, which is free, the old one is still available temporarily if you pay

You just have to move to the new API which is still free, the old one is temporarily still available by paying

I’ve been seeing it more regardless of group size. I went to a restauraunt alone and they had the audacity to charge a service fee and ask for a fucking tip

I wouldve tipped more than the service charge! So I gave nothing instead

TOML is my bestie

Yeah but if it gets lost, they have to replace it, and if they leave it in a terrible place that’s ripe for theft I can claim I never received it. Stealing from multi-billion dollar corporations is always morally correct. Plus, I get free shit out of it and they stop doing that pretty quickly :)

I’m a pretty senior dev and have chat gpt open for quick searches. It’s great for helping me figure out what to Google in the cases where I can’t think of the name of a pattern or type I’m looking for. It also helps quite a bit with learning about obscure functions and keywords in SQL that I can do more research on

Hell, I use Copilot daily. Its auto complete is top-tier

You know you could just subscribe to remove them anyways right? I don’t see the difference here

Donations don’t work by themselves. Pretty much ever.

Ad based models aren’t great, but the alternative is subscription based. And we know exactly what the internet feels about that. Look at the amount of people here in this thread given that exact choice and refusing to pay

You adding views to some random video absolutely does not offset the cost of your usage through ads. Ads can make a surprising amount of money for a platform (upwards of 4 or 5 dollars a month per free user). Based on YouTube removing premium Lite, I think it’s actually very safe to assume that the consumption of free users is around that, so approximately $7 per month on average. Do you honestly think this would offset that cost in any universe?

It’s okay to want stuff for free. Just make sure you fully understand the consequences and don’t try to play it off like you’re the good guy.

Okay, let’s get rid of all ads and move to subscriptions across the entire internet. What a fantastic idea.