If I watch something funny I’ll quote it with my friends, but I wouldn’t share a clip of me and my friends if I wanted to share the joke with someone. I’d share a clip of the actual joke.

It’s not a homage, it’s just the exact same joke.

Stealing in the sense that it’s the exact same joke.

It’s like a YouTuber creating a ‘reaction’ video that adds nothing but their face in the corner of the screen. Adding a link to the original video doesn’t suddenly make it reasonable.

Two muffins are baking in an oven. One muffin turns to the other and says “sure is hot in here isn’t it?”
To which the other muffin replies “Holy crap! A talking muffin!”

Changing the muffins to cookies would not make it a different joke.

I don’t know if I’d call it a paraphrase when it’s using 90% the exact same words.

without it’s original meaning being altered.

I think you mean “without its original meaningfully being altered.”

I get the analogy you’re trying to make, but maybe want to switch to something else.

Like any other vaccine?

Yes, my comment wasn’t about online casinos but about the people who think they have a right to tell others how to live their lives.

Who’s “they the people”? I don’t know much about the gambling industry the internet but if it’s anything like any other industry place then it’s not a centralized monolith but many independent business people.

Stockholm Syndrome

Completely off topic: Stockholm syndrome gets its name from a hostage situation where the police seemed to show no care or concern for the hostages’ safety and the captors did more to protect them than law enforcement. Of course the hostages’ felt more empathy towards their captors.

According to accounts by Kristin Enmark, one of the hostages, the police were acting incompetently, with little care for the hostages’ safety. This forced the hostages to negotiate for their lives and releases with the robbers on their own. In the process, the hostages saw the robbers behaving more rationally than the police negotiators and subsequently developed a deep distrust towards the latter.[9] Enmark had criticized Bejerot specifically for endangering their lives by behaving aggressively and agitating the captors. She had criticized the police for pointing guns at the convicts while the hostages were in the line of fire, and she had told news outlets that one of the captors tried to protect the hostages from being caught in the crossfire.

Good to know. Thank you.

Can Mint read files from a Windows partition or is it a different filesystem?

I’m waiting until there’s a good sale on Hard drives to set up a dual-boot.

Do you realize how low quality your stuff would be?

YouTube makes $30 billion a year. They’ll be fine.

Then people would bitch that they can’t get the high quality version for free

Reducing the max resolution for people who aren’t on YouTube Red will come next once they stop focusing on AdBlockers.

“Service quality will continue to decrease until profits improve!”

Same way I used to pay for YouTube and currently pay for Podcasts: A small number of ads, at a designated spot, that I can skip through if I don’t want to watch.

It would be trivial for youtube to stop adblockers by making the ads indistinguishable from the rest of the stream: Coming from the same source and behaving like the rest of the video (your controls don’t get locked). But that doesn’t grow their every increasing hoard of wealth fast enough. The product must be made worse for profits to grow more, and according to you I should be thanking them for decreasing the quality of their product for me. $30 billion is not enough! The company demands infinite growth in a closed system! (Or as biologists call it: cancer)

Yup.

YouTube could easily avoid AdBlockers by simply having ad part of the video itself. Not pulling it from a different server, not hijacking your video player to prevent user controls, just part of the video like any other part of the video and AdBlockers would not be able to detect it. They’re not going to do that though, because then users won’t be forced to watch an ad they have no interest in.

They are still using it and costing YouTube money in aggregate

The poor company only making $31.5 Billion a year has to eat the streaming cost for someone using as ad blocker? Won’t somebody PLEASE think of the billionaires?!

But it’s quite horrifying to see people around the world having been taught into thinking that everything should be “free”

Maybe the businesses shouldn’t have created the expectation that everything was “free” then.

YouTube used to be 1 skippable ad at the start of the video. Now it’s multiple unskippable ads throughout the video. If the 1 skippable ad wasn’t a viable business model then they shouldn’t have been pretending it was and then changing things later once people have gotten used to the “free” system.

That’s exactly what people are doing.

Or plan in advance and have some protection?

“I put the computer in the trash” is pretty easy to replicate.

“okay… What happens if I do this?”

Love the extra work you went through in order to not have to click the mouse button. :p

Humans are wild.