if they’re weak enough to allow themselves to become addicted to a device

That’s not how addiction works.

Oh, that’s cool!

Why does a Blu-ray player need to connect to the Internet?

What a randomly racist comment.

Who Is Doing That?

I’m American and I just want to live and drink vodka.

You made a coherent argument as to why you use a service, specific to yourself. You get downvoted for doing so. Never change, lemmy.

…Or, perhaps, do change. Y’all can still sniff your own farts if y’all pull y’all’s heads slightly out of your asses.

It can gum up the works.

Seriously you sound like a Mac user in the '90s Linux user today.

FTFY

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So they are introducing ads and removing the download option, both moves unfriendly to consumers. Sounds like they plan to do a “We’ve listened to consumers and” shelving one of those moves for later (probably the download option) when the hubbub over the worse option dies down.

I actually was talking to a neighbor at my apartments 20 some-odd years ago. We got to talking about coke and he asked if I’d ever smoked it before.

“No…” So I followed him across the hall to his apartment and took a hit. “Whoa, this is fucking great! …Wait, when you smoke it isn’t it crack?”

“Yeah, it’s awesome isn’t it!? You know, if you want more I can probably find some…”

So, yup. I got my first hit of crack for free. I never thought that happened in real life before, either, and I’ve never had or heard of it happening since. Additionally, about six months later I stopped smoking crack.

It won’t matter, they would have all of your comments archived already. Even if you overwrite them AI will be scraping the copies they keep.

OpenUpYourWalletforAI

You are not making a valid argument, as evidenced by your argument being torn to shreds in the comments here.

Perfect. Then people can avoid ads at that gas station by going to another gas station with ads!

…Viewed on what? A Roku TV?

Even worse: Imagine being the guy working on this and being proud of yourself.

The three US states I’ve lived in all allowed children in liquor stores if accompanied by a parent or guardian

Oh, piss off.