Most estimates are around 30% for people who use ad blockers. I would guess half or more of those are probably people who had someone else install the ad blocker for them (I personally do it for any family who has me help with their computer) and don’t even care about blocking ads. Half of the remaining half would gladly turn off the blocker to keep getting their YouTube fix. So we’re left with a tiny percentage of users who would actually be upset about this.

Something tells me they’ll be fine and they know more than the tiny population of lemmy, a niche community of people notorious for using free software, pirating paid software, and avoiding corporate media.

For someone who doesn’t care and has no viable responses to the questions here, you sure do have a lot to say.

Spoiler: it won’t be.

They won’t. But complaining about them on Lemmy and Bloomberg is empowering them.

Then stop already. Stop mentioning the name. Stop posting articles about it. Stop sharing articles about it on other social media.

You know what’s immoral? Posting ragebait articles about a platform because you know users will engage.

Fair enough.

You want pedantic? Those are wind turbines, champ. Windmills are used to mill grain, no matter how many people like yourself try to bastardize the term to apply to anything that rotates with air.

What’s next for you people, pinwheels are now windmills?

They’re only doing what everyone else is right now. B2B companies in particular are going nuts with it. I know several companies that pivoted their entire near-term strategy to focus on the value AI/ML can bring to their customers.

It’s not clear why Starz, which is home to TV shows like Outlander, The Serpent Queen, and Minx, made the move

Seems pretty obvious within the sentence itself.

They’re one of the very few companies that even could afford to do that, and they didn’t have to. I think people who invested into Stadia lucked out that it was Google and not some other company.

I would be reluctant to sign up for a similar clone service unless you also get a key to another store.

I’m actually impressed by how bad of a take this is. Well done.