There are two ways that would happen. One is with IP bans, and even then, there are still ways around it. And if they start doing that, they'll start to cut off legitimate users with dynamic IP addresses that change often. The other is by dropping ad supported services completely and moving to a fully paid model. And I doubt they have enough people who give enough of a shit to start giving YouTube actual money for the bullshit that's on there.
Like I said, they lost the game before they started. They will never shake off the freeloaders without seriously kneecapping their company.
If they're doing better than ever, then why are they trying to constantly hack through my ad blocker now in a desperate attempt to show me an ad one way or another? I'm always gonna be one step ahead. They lost the game before they started. But they still won't give up for some reason. That's a lot of resources for a company to spend on someone that will never give a shit and keep blocking the ads.
Not that I'm a proponent of it or anything, but people were saying the exact same thing ten years ago after the first big bubble. I don't think it's going anywhere. There's too much greed in the world, and it's too enticing. At this point you might as well be a nun trying to get porn banned worldwide.
I was trying to run a forum in the early 2000s and was pirating Windows Server with IIS to do it, and I discovered this entire other free, legit OS to do what I wanted to do with ease. Back in those days you could install a "LAMP" stack during install which gave you Apache, MySQL, and PHP automatically configured, whereas in IIS I was having to install a seperate PHP interpreter and figure out how to send php scripts to it and back, the whole thing seemed janky.
After that Linux became my go-to for any IT related project, and even more so when I started my electronics hobby due to how you can just make it do any damn thing you want.
In 2020 it became my desktop permanently after Microsoft decided they didn't want their OS running on my perfectly fine computer anymore.
I'm curious what do people here consider "old" since that's the top complaint about Debian? It's never more than a year or two behind "bleeding edge" distros. When I think "old", I'm thinking 10, 15 years ago. That's considered "old" in the Windows world, but I guess that's super ancient geological history in the Linux world.
This is why I ask the Fediverse for home improvement tips first. Y'all will never steer me wrong. Plus my electrical breaker box doubles as a nice little space heater now, it's so warm!
With my kid, he just gets on Steam and starts doing his thing with his friends like everybody else as if he was on Windows. It makes no difference to him. I figure I'd let him learn the same way I learned computers, by just standing back and letting him poke and prod around and giving assistance and guidance when necessary. He can't break anything important.
I shouldn't really have to look up the instruction manual of a text editor to do a simple action like close the program. Every single other text editor I've ever used was intuitive enough to get started right away, going back to 1989.
Looking at you, Google and Unity. (sh.itjust.works)
*** (beehaw.org)
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Italians have great raw ingredients, if only somebody would teach them how to use them.
what caused you to get into Linux?
What caused you to get into it, are you an evangel and are you obsessed?
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elevator (lemmy.ml)
Lemmy memes (lemmy.world)
***buntu (lemmy.ml)
Linux Mint: am I a joke to you
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Any experience with teaching kids Linux?
Any one here has any experience with teaching 8 to 12 years old kids Linux?
Distros bad (feddit.de)
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nervous system (lemmy.world)
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Linux servers
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They just don't understand (lemmy.world)