We can talk about what kinds of ads are appropriate but the right to use YouTube without paying either in money or time spent watching ads has never, will never, and does not currently exist.
This is a deeply interesting comment. Obviously, YouTube began and spent several years as an ad-free, subscription-free platform, so to state that no one has ever had the "right" to use YouTube without paying or watching ads is patently false. But why would someone make such statement? Are they too young to remember an ad-free YouTube? Do they have some vested interest in pushing the idea that the YT user experience has never been and never could be more consumer-friendly than it is? Has the state of political rhetoric in 2025 - the age of Applied Big Brother, where simply stating one's preferred history makes it "real" - trickled down to normal discourse?
Who knows? Anyway, I use an adblocker and Grayjay.
People can offer, graciously or not, you something for free.
They can then change their mind.
You are not entitled to it, you never had any “right” to it, and no force real or imagined in the universe will make that so.
I believe that payment in “exposure” is exploitative bullshit and many of my favorite video makers rely on revenue from YouTube as a not-insignificant portion of their income, so I pay.
Terms of Service say otherwise. Until the ads came in, users absolutely had a "right" to access YouTube's services for free. I'm sorry that you misspoke.
AI in cyber defence and attack
Quantum resistant cryptography
Death of the password? Passwordless, passkeys, phishing resistant MFA
More suppliers compromised, another major open source project long con
Doing more with less: automation and consolidation
Maybe we should support logging in with an OTP to email for many more systems than we do currently? Combined with conditional access and MFA its actually not bad.
No password to remember and supports this "pattern"
I've seen a couple of enterprise/corporate services switch to the "OTP via email" pattern (usually as mandatory 2FA), and I hate it, because there's no way for me to autofill that email OTP, unlike for e.g. WebAuthN or TOTP.
Australia has many GP's now using apps. Very easy to get even a same day appointment. But we have single payer healthcare, with 2% of gross income taxed for Medicare. We also have a system that encourages high income earners to pay for additional private health. Seems like a good system to me.
Hate that you need a credit card to try it. Installed anyway, Martin just crashes. Does not load at all. Fail. iPhone 11, iOS 17.5.1. Location in Australia.
Just like research on X wonder drug cures y needs the mandatory [on nice] feels like 4 day work week articles need the mandatory [for the same pay as 5 days]
