Knightfox

The example is the Telluride though? That's the whole point. Of course any sane person would pick a cheaper car. For that matter why would you ever buy a brand new car?

I definitely agree, but I went with the option which would have the lowest monthly payment. On the other end local rates have a 36 month loan at 6.75%, but that's $1,800 per month.

I just Googled and the 2024 Telluride has an MSRP of ~$55,000 in my area, used 2023 models are about ~$45,000.

Looking at an auto loan calculator, that's between $700 and $900 per month with a 96 month 9% auto loan.

Point is, if you can afford the car you're probably not worrying about the subscription except on principle. If you can afford the car and have principle concerns you'd probably buy a different car.

If you're on desktop and open several videos at once (such as getting home from work/school and opening all the new videos on your subscriptions tab) you really don't notice.

What I do notice are the ads at the beginning, quarters, middle, and end of a video

when better candidates are clearly available for both demopublican parties has to some other reasoning

You're absolutely right, but if it comes down to Biden vs Trump at the general election, who are you going to vote for?

People seem to forget that the way Henry Ford was so successful was that he paid more than double the normal rate of that time. He of course didn't do it out of the goodness of his black heart, but it's undoubtedly one of the reasons for his success.

I have Windows 10, so things may be different for 11 or whatever version you're on, but can't you just uninstall OneDrive without specifically closing it? I feel like that's what I did when it was default installed.

Weird, you'd think that Google would give them more options than that and allow them to tailor their ads to their audience. I guess this is how google puts forth the minimum effort for the maximum profit. Thanks for the insight.

I'd really like to know what the level of input creators have over the ads that appear in their videos is. It feels like some videos are just whatever Google throws out there while some videos seem to have no ads and finally some seem to have very limited ads.

Is there some sort of dial that the creator has behind the scenes that determines how shitty the ads for their video are?

Ads on YouTube used to not be so bad, a 5 second ad that was so unintrusive that I'd just let it play, a 15 second with a 3 second skip, and it also didn't feel like the same quantity of ads.

Before an ad would roll at the beginning of the video and I'd likely quickly skip it. If the video was fairly long there might be an extra ad in the middle. Sometimes the creator might also have an embedded ad, but I generally don't mind those.

Now it's a double 15 second ad at the beginning, only the first one is skippable. Then there is another double ad every 15 minutes, plus the embedded creator ad, and if you make it to the end of the video there is an end of video double ad before it auto plays to the start of the next video and next set of double ads.

Make the ads short and unintrusive or make them long, skippable, but rare. I hate having to constantly tab out to go click the skip button every few minutes.

When the YouTube ad blocker ban started I was on chrome with uBlock and it seemed to be refreshing the block even with uBlock. I thought to myself, "Hey let's try it with the ads, I'll whitelist YouTube and support the content creators." After about 3 days I said fuck it, dropped Chrome and updated uBlock again; I haven't seen an ad since.

Yeah, I remember an article from 2016, they were interviewing a college kid and asked who he supported, he said he supported Bernie Sanders. When asked how he felt about Bernie losing the primary he said he felt guilty because he had forgotten to vote.

Aren't young Democrats the lowest turnout group in nearly every state in every election? I'll double check the numbers when I get home, but from memory that was the case.