It scares me that people make a talking point out of it XD what an incredible event, someone got fired!

In countries where people are free (almost everywhere except the USA) you can simply open a coffee shop in a "residential district". You have these ridiculous zoning laws so at most you can drive to a Starbucks.

Funny, in countries where people are free (everywhere except your city in Poland) you can use an electric leaf blower to clear your stoop of leaves so neighbors can sit with their coffee.

USA != World.

I mean, that's objectively disproved by the advertising industry who is profiting from these ads.

Maybe you and I aren't, but lots of people are.

But why?

For 7EUR/month I have 30GB of data transfer + unlimited SMS and calls in my my country + ~8GB of data in whole EU, every month. There is no cheaper option. Who needs public Wi-Fi?

EU should increase the competitiveness of communication operators and not finance such stupid ideas. Also map in that app is online only. So you need internet access to get internet access...

Perhaps you are assuming that your conditions, plans, and access are exactly the same across all ~500 million people in the EU.

Because of shit like https://www.telekom.de/shop/tarife/smartphone-tarife?tariffI...

Data prices vary wildly by country. And no, you cannot use a foreign carrier to get cheap data and roam all year, they'll find you and charge out-of-package pricing for every gigabyte you've used (which isn't the standard rate).

True but if you go to Telekom you're basically _asking_ to pay a lot. A 30 second search cuts that price already by 66%: https://www.alditalk.de/kombi-pakete https://www.nettokom.de/tarif/nettokom-smart-l/

If you can settle for 50Mbps (not really 5G, but already Aldi and Netto had a 100Mbps limit which is... basically the ITU definition of 4G), here's 50GB/month for 13 EUR: https://www.lebara.de/de/vertrag/hello-flex/hello-25-flex.ht...

every Samsung Galaxy XCover has IP68 and user replaceable battery.

Please explain how is the app that plays music clips from YouTube and hides the ads is "shaking up the system"?

By taking control of the UX of the most popular platform?

in my city (in Poland) there is a ban on the use of combustion and electric leaf blowers. The aim of the restrictions is to eliminate secondary dust (PM 2.5, PM10) emissions from streets.

https://www.poznan.pl/mim/info/news/zakaz-uzywania-dmuchaw-d...

In Los Angeles, they imposed fines and even jail time for their use near residences in the late 90s. Gardeners responded by staging a hunger strike that lasted 7 days in front of city hall, and the city walked it back and has not bothered enforcing the ordinance since.

Before Lithium ion batteries, a ban on ICE blowers probably meant having to rake which is way more manpower.

Interesting my city, Encinitas in the US, banned it to reduce green house gas emissions.

https://www.encinitasca.gov/government/departments/developme...

so back to sweeping I guess?

I recently bought a Kärcher push sweeper and it's life changing. Completely silent and cleanup same sized patio space in fraction of the time. Yet when I recommend it others the response is usually "na I need my blower" ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

To be fair, that sweeper isn't an exact replacement for a blower. It works on hard surfaces, but a blower works everywhere.

When I was a kid, the city would send trucks around in the fall to vacuum up piles of leaves left at the curb.

I think it would be cool to vacuum things up.

Naw, we'll go to using the water hose and a sprayer!

It's not as uncommon as you might think/hope.

> If you don't want ads on youtube, just pay the $10 premium fee.

YT premium doesn't actually block the ads that creators put in their videos, SponsorBlock+AdBlock does. Give me the same functionality for 10$ in YT Premium and I will pay.

So how would you monetize YouTube with its huge infrastructure & payroll? And if everyone used something to block in-video sponsored ads, how would you monetize your hard work as a creator?

YouTube could offer a way to block sponsor segments too. If a small open source project run by one guy (super nice guy!) can do it, they can figure it out too.

The sponsor segments can be longer than any native YouTube ad so it makes YouTube premium a bit useless.