Hot Take: Ads are cool.

    Hot take here, but I don't really care about ads. People on the internet constantly complain that there are ads in everything; they whine about the 'unskippable' ads on YouTube. In my opinion, YouTube is the best free streaming service in the world, despite their biases. It's better than Rumble, it's better than Odysee, it's better than Vimeo, or any other alt-tech platform. YouTube stores and hosts petabytes of data, supports livestreams, has a growing short-form platform, and you get all of that for a one-minute ad in a video? Is it really that horrible that you have to use an ad block or some third-party client and whine on Reddit about how Google is so horrible? Why don't you run a UGC (User-Generated Content) streaming service and get back to me on how you expect to make money?

    Ads in streaming to reduce prices are, in my opinion, good. We paid money for cable/satellite TV and still got ads, and now we are whining that there are ads in streaming services that cost about $100-$150 a year and have almost every show they ever made. It costs about $30 to buy the TV show A.N.T. Farm, $48 for Good Luck Charlie, and a whopping $114 to buy K.C. Undercover. (Source: Prime video) In essence, in the short term, you save money by streaming, as well as being able to gain access to other new shows that come out—and we are mad that you may see ADS! I think this is just a result of Redditors hating capitalism and thinking everything should be free, and that attitude permeates our culture.

    And another hot take here, but targeted ads are good. I'd rather see an ad for something I may want than an ad for something I don't. On some rare occasions, I may even find something useful—something I would never have found but see today. I think that's so cool. God bless and Tech Talk To You Later