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the rules are clearly presented. either youre not paying attention or youre just an asshole who purposefully throws their opinion in a place explicitly not wanting it.

what the fuck is wrong with you guys?

The same as with those women wanting to get in this men space? I wonder...

More seriously, you ask a legit question (as it would be legit if it was a man asking why some women so badly want to join in men-only spaces), a question that could trigger an interesting discussion, but why does it have to be so fucking angry? (See how poorly it passes?)

I actually used to pay for YouTube Premium for quite a while. It was $7/month and I split it with someone so it cost me $3/month to eliminate the very slightly annoying ads, which was well worth it.

I could have written that. I was fine with paying for YT, even though they asked too much to my taste I paid for years, but I decided their attitude was way too hostile (and too dumb) and decided to cancel my Premium membership.

I watch a lot less YT nowadays, like a lot, and I do it on Waterfox with those extensions: uBO + SponsorBlock (and YT Enhancer). So far, beside a few slow downs and the occasional refusal to play a video, it seems to be working fine.

None. New gen Hollywood will be so politically correct that there will only be remakes of Bambi without the hunters.

I want to know what draws people to it and why keep consuming

Like mentioned by others, for most people sex is a basic need porn being a substitute to the real thing which can be a lot more difficult to achieve than, say, wanking in front of a screen.

and making it?

Why do people make porn? Money. Porn is big money.

nothing. We clean the place and we open windows as often as possible (even during winter cold).

I just don't see the point of telling people what they already know,

Like I said previously, if the web was only populated by non-redundant content (and books written alike) it would not be the Web we know and our bookshelves would be empty too. Also, the thing is that I'm probably too old to understand the 'needs' of younger generations but I consider repetitions, alongside with failing (aka trying and not doing great, aka spending time trying) as keys to any true learning. So, saying what you seem to consider obvious is not something I'm anywhere ready to stop doing, sorry but feel free to block me if it's too much of a nuisance ;)

But others will surely vote you up and vote me down, so I guess I'm in the minority.

Does it matter? We share our opinions, which could be the start of something interesting, why should we care what bystanders can think about that? Even less so, I already explained that in a couple other discussions (repetitions, always repetitions) that I consider people silently downvoting without making the minimal effort of explaining their motivation/reasoning not worth of my attention. Alas, not only am I stating the obvious, and I'm a useless commenter but it looks like I'm also very mean. Looks like there is not much to like in me.

This in particular makes little sense, and IMO the whole comment is nihilistic and defeatist and generally not very helpful. Just my opinion.

Most modern democratic societies have matured/thrived on a few key notions, including the idea that we, their citizens, had some fundamental rights among which were a few freedoms and at the very least some notion of privacy/intimacy. Those same fundamentals rights and values our actual leaders, so vocal about their unadulterated respect for democracy ad its values, happily are sitting on, when not pooping on.

Hope this makes a little more sense. If not, well, ok next time I will try in French.

As a side note, since you seem to consider comments should serve a purpose (if only, would you imagine what a nice place the Internet could be if it was only populated by useful participation and people willing to contribute to building a better place?), do not hesitate to tell me why this comment of mine made little sense to you (you know, it may help me understand your own comment) instead of just telling me it's useless and nihilistic which, I don't think I'm taking a huge risk here, you did not intend to use as a compliment. But, like you said, that's just my opinion.

Surprise?

Maybe more people will start realize that, even more so in our so perfectly democratic societies, digital/online privacy and intimacy have very little future (and that's the very optimistic version).

Libewrolf is a FF fork, Vivaldi is a chromium one. So they inherit all the differences between the two (edit: including the limit/support for extensions)

For a FF-based browser, I've chosen Waterfox (which works perfectly with uBO) and for chromium, I use Vivaldi.

You need to enable JavaScript to run this app.

That's not true. I just need to click the 'x' next to the tab. Why should I be bothered with waiting for some JS to be able to read text?

They are one of several signs of LLM writing. That said if you've always used them then you do you

Not the person you replied to but allow me to chime in: I've been using em dashes for decades and I will not stop using them because AI has started playing with them—no more than I will stop writing because AI can write too ;)

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