I also pay for YouTube. I just don’t normally bring it up because it usually results in a lot of rather unpleasant replies.

It’s fascinating, really.

Google gets a lot of hate for being a data collection behemoth. The whole “if you aren’t paying, you are the product” thing. And rightfully so.

And pirates love to say that if companies would just charge a reasonable rate for an easy-to-use service, then they would just pay instead of pirating.

But when it comes to YouTube, a lot of people seem to want to have it both ways.

Is hosting YouTube infrastructure free?

The irony of this post being behind a paywall

I could not care less about your or anyone else’s opinion of some billionaire. I am not OP. Do not assume to lump me into your rant just because I said a fictional character is better at reading the room than you are.

Even Vulcans can read the room.

The vastness of the ecosystem built around Apple products cannot be understated. You can’t just change the iPhone port every few years.

Ditching the 30-pin adapter created no small degree of controversy. Though the device itself got favorable reviews, the New York Times’ tech columnist at the time called it “not just a slap in the face to loyal customers” but a “jab in the eye.”

The Lightning connector was introduced on September 12, 2012, with iPhone 5. And there was so much controversy around it that they publicly committed to using it for at least 10 years.

The USB-C spec was not finalized until nearly two years later, in August 2014.

I can’t fault a company for activity committing to a decade of compatibility with peripherals. And I certainly can’t fault them for avoiding the disaster called Micro USB.

Have you de-Googled or something? They only really nail you when you don’t have a signed-in Google account with real-world web usage, particularly if your connection originates from a flagged IP.

Oh yes. People absolutely love it.

The reason I think this is needed is because a large percent of Internet users cannot afford hosting personal websites.

A number of cloud providers offer an always-free tier.

https://github.com/cloudcommunity/Cloud-Free-Tier-Comparison