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Intelligence comes in more forms than just written language. Words can express emotion, but so can dance, painting, singing, even a glance can express so much. Why do you think it needs to stop at emoji's? Your inability to understand what they are saying with that emoji is not a failure of the emoji, but your ability to interpret it. That's like saying dancing doesn't convey emotion because you don't know what it is they are trying to convey. Perhaps you just need to learn more ways of expressing emotions?

Alright, I don't want to sound offensive, but maybe work on not being so obtuse. You need to think about other people more. Maybe that has some relation to it? When a person really can't stop and think about other people and why they might not have the most fluent internet posts, I feel like the other person is either lazy, or doesn't know how to stop and think about how big the world is.

Of course, this applies to me. I don't know who you are or what you've gone through, but I thought it would be a taste of your own medicine. People write in a lot of different ways than yours. And while there are a lot of correct and incorrect rules to English, there are not so many correct ways to communication. You (and I) type the way we were taught in English class. But just because someone else does not, does not make their typing wrong. It's not like they're going to get a grade for it. If you understood what they said, then it seems like a job well done.

And even if you CAN'T understand what they said or it doesn't make sense, you shouldn't assume someone is lazy. While English is the most spoken language, it is not the most spoken native language. Such a massive portion of English speakers have a non-English native language, and so so many are learning. Or maybe they aren't learning, and that's okay too. Or maybe they're young. Maybe they're developmentally disabled. Or maybe they just don't want to think so hard on a stupid internet post. Whatever the reason, stop and think about all the possible reasons they typed like that. I'm sure you can come up with quite a few, and one of them might even be right.

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especially when it’s poorly written I feel like the person either is lazy or doesn’t know what they’re writting.

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You CANNOT opt out of data collection from youtube

Right, and that's exactly what I said. Though Google specifically doesn't really need to sell your data. They just use it themselves to advertise to you.

Idk, there's a lot of people who have jobs designing websites without a place to host it. Shoot, people get paid to design an image of a website.

Idk, this one is pretty easily explained by Hanlon's razor. I'm sure others will disagree, which is fine, but it seems not only plausible, but likely that they intended for this to target all ad block users and not just FireFox. Google has waged a war with adblockers, and they are making quick retaliatory changes as the adblockers block the adblocker blockers. It's literally Google making changes and people changing the adblockers back. It genuinely seems more realistic for them to have tried to target all adblockers than just FireFox...

While I think Google is a monster that needs to be destroyed, it's silly to me that your two options are either block ads or leave. The third option would be pay for the service. If your only problem is the ads and not the tracking (which probably isn't true, but it's the only complaint you made in the comment), then paying for it is a valid solution. It shouldn't be controversial to say video hosting costs money to run, which obviously includes YouTube. So giving it out for free is simply not a realistic option. You're free to leave, but you won't have anywhere else to go that meets the "free and no ads" requirement. If you realistically don't want ads, you will have to pay. And if you're fine with paying, YouTube is currently the platform with the most content to offer.

Honestly, I'm thankful paying is an option. I wish Google would offer a paid package overall to stop the tracking/data collection. I would literally just give them my money for actual privacy with their services.

Not all of us are so lucky. I was hospitalized for 3 weeks until I was able to get my PiHole back up. I was nearly a goner.

Assuming they didn't pervert the signal protocol, then they really really cannot access your messages, even if they wanted to. The encryption key would only be stored on the local device. Though, it would honestly benefit them to actually do this. They then cannot provide user data to law enforcement no matter how many warrants there are, they cannot be susceptible to rogue employees stealing the information, and the list goes on. And like I said, they really don't need to know what your messages say. They get all the information they want from the metadata.

To really prove it you should type your username on it.

You hold the clutch at the bite point before you even reach the gas. He says before you even reach the gas, which means you are moving your foot from brake to gas.

The value of the data gets tricky fast. If they made everyone pay $10 for the service, they would make less money. They would make less money because fewer people would use the service. To offer it for free means more people would use it. While each person may provide less than the subscriber, the masses of the free users makes more money than the subscriber.

To profit more from free users, you just have to have enough people willing to use it for free, and wouldn't pay for it, to where their revenue exceeds that of the $10 plus the added cost to run the service with more users using it.

Just for easy numbers, let's say a free users makes Meta $1.00 a month. If there is a group of 20 people who use meta, and only 1 of those 20 people is willing to pay $10, then the paid service would make them $10 where the unpaid service would make them $19. Obviously super simplified math, but honestly the number of people that would pay for Facebook is probably a lot less than 1 in 20.

I am not saying $10 is a fair price, but rather it's not a simple task to pick a fair price. Not that meta wants a fair price anyway.