Honestly I love it. I don't typically rewatch things often enough to justify the price they charge to purchase a copy, and I have a shitload of stuff at my fingertips with streaming services.
With music it's a little different by because I do re-listen a lot, but streaming lets me just listen to music I might like instead of relying on reviews to guess what might be worth buying. I listen to way more different things than I would if I had to buy it all.
So literally no one, then?
I don't know who started this trend of "showing ads is the same thing as selling data" but it's fucking irritating to see so many people confidently wrong about something they could figure out themselves if they thought about Google's business model for 30 seconds.
*Me dan sed.
Paying a business to provide a service you use is not ransom.
"They might raise prices later" is an idiotic reason not to pay for something.
Who are they selling your data to?
They don't build land.
Reminder: the problem is 100% capitalism, 0% technology. We've built a truly perverse economic system in which eliminating labor hurts people.
Important technologies are almost always important because they result in a net decrease in the amount of human labor needed. The industrial revolution never would have happened if automation didn't result in huge labor savings. If a technology is merely a different way to do what could be done before without the same amount of effort, there's no reason to adopt it.
So you admit having a walled garden doesn't protect you from malicious apps, but you still want on to...protect you from malicious apps?
I wonder how many of the people who say self-checkout is unpaid labor will also try to shame people for not returning their shopping carts.
When deciding if something related to making chips makes sense, I think you also need to consider geopolitical risk. From what I understand, a pretty large chunk of the world's semiconductor manufacturing is in Taiwan, and there's a significant chance it will all be taken over by China at some point. Meanwhile relations between China and the West are steadily deteriorating, and semiconductors are constantly becoming more essential to the world economy.
As an analogy, imagine a scenario where most of the world's petroleum production was controlled by the Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War. It's something a lot of world governments would have a vested interest in avoiding.
They sell ads, but data. If you can't see the difference I can't help you. It's not "pedantic", it's being factual. Sorry you apparently think facts don't matter.