Luminous5481 [they/them]

that’s not stealing, that’s copying. you’re in the wrong comm to be calling piracy stealing.

I imagine what they earn depends on how many ad impressions they get.

is it OK to let little kids starve when you can feed them and clean up the environment at the same time? and what’s with this quotation marks around the word earn? that’s some privileged bullshit from somebody who has clearly never been hungry or homeless.

the guides who make their living taking people up the mountain would be out of a job. the industry supports thousands of people, shutting it down would mean those families and their children would starve.

creators get paid for views.

that’s not exactly true. creators get paid for ad impressions, not for views. a client like Freetube or Libretube does not view any ads, so the creators do not get paid.

this is why some frontends and browser extensions allow you to allowlist certain channels, so that they get paid for your watching their content.

these are people running from the war? if so, why not give them actual citizenship? they clearly do not want to live in Russia anymore, and I can’t blame them.

wild that the only reason he knows or cares about the violence in Nigeria is because he saw something about it on Fox News.