They're especially greedy when you consider they are not only the most profitable of all their competitors (Netflix/Disney Plus/Hulu/etc), but that they're unique in that they're the only one who doesn't fund creating any content at all.

At least the other companies put tons of money producing content alongside their other stuff. YouTube just lets others do that for them and then takes all the profit.

So how does YouTube really justify their costs for premium with zero production costs and the largest profit margin?

I knew Honey was sketchy, but I just assumed it made it's money from just data harvesting everything

Just disable everything on your phone right now down to the essentials. If you're on Android, there's a lot of really minimalist 3rd party launchers like Niagara launcher that can improve the minimalist experience as well. You'd basically mimic the light phone at that point while still having every upside and be able to selectively enable and disable what you're asking.

You don't need to pay for an overpriced phone to take your choices away. You can find the will power to just disable it on your current phone.

sounds like she's clearly just getting in touch with the local population

Who are "they"?

I mostly just watch YouTube. Man do I not ever miss TV.

Please let them get royally fucked over copyright laws. That's not how they work.

Reminder that verification laws do not work and are straight up fascist.

This is how you end up in the backrooms

Boring and cringe

Why did it matter? Did it trigger as metal or something?

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Session tokens are valid because they come from the service themselves, that's how they know they're good.

That doesn't work here because if there's no identifying information in this token from a 3rd party service (the ID verification service), then it is useless because it can simply be reused by everyone.

So you'd have to create a unique one for each site, which would involve the login website and verification service to link to each other, which is extremely privacy violating.

If it is NOT unique (ex: anonymous person request verification for site A), then that service can reuse that verification token and break it. So identifying the sites together is required for this to work and is a massive issue.

The solution is simple on-device parental controls and have the browser flag this. Yes it can be cheated just like "are you 18+?" prompts, and that's how it should be.

It's also important to point out that you're saying social media. ID verification would not stop there, it would then be used for sites like porn, which nonsense laws have already passed for this without proper solutions. Which the government should have zero business seeing what legal porn you watch, nor is there anything wrong with porn that it should be banned.

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What else would he possibly use it for?

First off, how can you possibly trust any 3rd party with that information and whatever you're browsing. Secondly, as soon as you show a statement to this company, that is privacy invasive right there. Also how do you know they're securely processing this and deleting it when they're done? This is where is becomes insecure and creates a surveillance state.

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Did you have an actual point with that comment

Lol these comments get increasingly emotional and deranged. This is why these are hiveminds responses.

There's a word for what the original commenter was talking about, and that's bereavement. It's also protected under US law.

So you're being incredibly gullible if you believe this person was fired for the sole reason of them being a teenager and their family member dying. That's just like cartoonishly evil and blatantly illegal, and it just reinforces a very black and white world view that this community is predisposed to. That's the whole point of why I suggested there's context missing here.

Also are you new here that you think votes determine truth?

No it's not. It's literally impossible, that's the issue.