even for him

oh wait

Whatever it's called, idr

TBH I have youtube music so I can download shit to my phone for the train.

if you want to give someone money

you're already a paypig

do it through paypall

or something

at least google doesnt directly get money off you that way

Spotify is missing a couple songs I really like and it bugs the hell out of me so I switched to youtube music

you know what has almost every song to have ever existed? fethin' torrents

or youtube

youtube-dl

easier than any torrent

there's always copystrike-induced gaps in youtube's availability, audio quality is inconsistent, and screw downloading songs one by one

i agree local data is THE way for media playback tho

I have youtube music, I literally download songs one by one, with that, It has Harvest Moon by BOC and the audio is up to my shitty standards so...

Shrug

more obscure stuff is often missing/horribly mislabelled/shit quality on youtube

mostly obscure weeb stuff

Eh, I'm a pretty mainstream kinda guy

At least for music

i'm very much not

Well, mainstream enough that it doesn't amtter

When I said I have an irrational hatred of ads, I meant it. Me bringing it up twice is meant to be impactful on your understanding.

ublock origin
i haven't seen ONE ad in years, and i paid 0 cents to get there

I have multiple IP addresses blocked within my system32 hosts file.

why **pay** google then?

EA games betrayed me with their shitty C&C mobile game.

EA games abandoned any pretence of making good games on purpose way before even that

I understand economics and still want my content.

as in, anything good to come from EA is a happy accident

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/189483004404563968/637786616395595786/raidf.png

Accurate

Gud Generals triology when? Right b4 I forgive them.

https://babylonbee.com/news/motorcycle-that-identifies-as-bicycle-sets-world-cycling-record

youtube operates at a loss, it's funded by google because having THE video sharing site is invaluable for social engineering

even before the adpocalypse, youtube operated at a loss

I was paying for Red when it was $20, around $12~15 now iirc.