The way ads are displayed effects how effective they are which in turn effects how valuable they are. More people turning to adblockers reduces the effectiveness of the ads and devalues the advertising method as a whole, more adblockers being used, lower effectiveness. YouTube then has to resort to putting in effort to combat adblockers which itself costs even more, ads have to become more intrusive to retain their value so YouTube can maintain it’s own servers and pay it’s content creators and it becomes an endless cycle of “fuck you I want your service for free and you are trampling my rights for trying to profit off me using your product”. In return all YouTube asks of you to obtain an ad-free video watching session for a month is $4 ($22/month split among 6 users)

What data privacy?

Privacy theater*

Future isn’t ARM it’s Risc-V. Apple just learned this and they are attempting to adapt.

One of the important skills you learn as a science fiction fan is the ability to understand what fiction means.

!Remindthem 6 years

I can’t tell, is this an angsty teenager take against YouTube Music.

That’s why Google announces the end of things unlike other companies who will just silently let them fall into obscurity. They don’t want to mislead people

Try installing fresh from USB. Typically works for me on any machine that says it couldn’t install on

What’s the useful part

Oh Jesus her we go

No it’s just a title list that’s presented to you on the first time startup wizard

I’ve never paid for it. Most Windows 11 users have not paid for it. You can buy a license but they also gave it away to effectively everyone and anyone who wants to can run it without buying it so long as you don’t mind the “activate more” watermark and less appearance options

God forbid they make money on a product they have given away

I’m not at all concerned about them collecting random useless data that will happen their own effectiveness

If I can rerun Windows 11 on a machine without actual Windows support I’m sure your issue is not going to be on the fault of Microsoft

1 minute during setup is not exactly a sacrifice

I’m running Windows 11 on Chromebooks without issue.

Windows 11 is pretty awesome though

Bro they don’t even have touchscreen support