The issue then is that all the investors that have already bought a ton of places can still leave them empty.

Haha true. That’s kind of also self-inflicted.

Most of the visitors on those awful sites come from google and are people who don’t have accounts.

It really depends on the content being served. Even with JS, a website is just a bunch of text on its own and should be pretty cheap to serve, but a website with just text and no media is out of the ordinary and very limiting. You expect wikis to have a fair few pictures and some sites even have legitimate reasons to be serving videos. The sites that autoplay some random bullshit video when you open them absolutely are bringing those costs on themselves, though.

Firefox can open PDFs and I’m not sure about the desktop versions, but the Android version is 117MB.

You can bet your ass they paid a lot of money to get their malware on your computer. It should be illegal to load consumer hardware with 3rd party bloatware that can’t be removed.

The way it was explained to me was that regardless of gender, if you see someone in the woods, there might be other people nearby and they might pose a serious threat to you. Bears don’t really gang up on people, so you should be okay if you keep your distance.

I don’t know whether or not I agree with that risk assessment, but I can see that it comes from a logical standpoint.

That doesn’t matter. If you buy a house and miss a sentence buried in page 2,784 of the agreement that says that the previous owner can arbitrarily decide to take the house back whenever they feel like it, that still won’t hold up in court. Digital products need to work the same way.

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That doesn’t matter. You don’t get to just unlitaterally revoke something people paid for because they didn’t want to sign up for an account at a company that was unrelated to Minecraft when they bought the game. This should be illegal.

Everyone else:

“Pardon me, do you have the time?”

“OH MY GOD A TALKING DODO BIRD!”

You need more data to recognize frames, but not a lot more data. A hash for each quality setting would be sufficient as long as they don’t start fuzzing the videos, which would be very expensive on their part.

It’s illegal to not identify an ad as an ad (unless you’re a movie maker, but that’s a different topic). All ad blockers need to do is read that indicator. That might not be super simple, but I have faith in the abilities of the brilliant people behind many ad-blocking technologies.

Myanmar’s average internet speed looks to be around 10-20mbps, so they probably stream with lower quality. Their GDP per capita is ~$1,150, so ads being shown to people in Myanmar wouldn’t be worth much anyway.

Well that sounds like an issue between YouTube and music publishers. It doesn’t change the fact that it’s a ripoff. They could just add a lower tier that only removes ads from non-music videos for like $2-3/mo.

Premium is a ripoff. It’s many times more expensive than the amount of ad revenue YT would’ve gotten if you watched a normal amount of videos without premium.

There are multiple Borg queens.

If replicators existed in our universe, they would probably have some sort of DRM built-in and make you pay a fee to the people who made the patterns it replicates whenever you use it. This would naturally progress to bundles and subscriptions, just like how we went from digitally “buying” movies to paying for streaming services that give us access to a large bundle of media. There would also be no way around this because whoever invented the technology would be the only one selling it and the DRM would likely be hardware-level.

You don’t need an entire VPN just to block ads. I use RethinkDNS on Android and it blocks ads in most apps.

I don’t really remember SQL, does it prevent you from using a range of values? I can understand why leap seconds would be an issue.