Subscribe to channels you like, and skip the front page, go to your subscription page by default. Not only will this feed you content you want, it will train the algo to server you better suggestions when you do go to the home page since you will be watching mostly videos you already like.

Even if there was, do you think it would be free with no ads? That is impossible. They would have the same issues.

No, that isn't how it works. This isn't TV. They get paid for ad impressions not by viewer ratings. No ad served, no money. The lower the number of ads that are served, the less attractive the platform is to the advertisers.

Hahahahahahahahahaha WOW the fucking ego. Are you really that deluded? No, it does not make it more valuable. You're a leach on the system. Your views have no value to Google because they have no value to advertisers who pay the bills. You dilute their profits on a per-hour-viewed basis. Your other interactions on the platform do nothing for Youtube.

Well you are obviously one of them if you actually believe what you wrote, so you tell us, why don't you understand basic economics?

"and take with them at least a portion of All my friends (over time) who were not bothering with Ad Blockers anyways." and how, exactly, do you plan to accomplish that?

You are like the guy who goes into a restaurant, takes up a table, only orders a water, and threatens to "take his business elsewhere". Guess what, they don't want you as a "customer". Feel free to leave.

The same applies to AI though. Just because it can do something doesn't mean it has, or would. No AI can write every possible story, paint every possible painting, invent every possible invention, produce every possible movie,... It's physically impossible. There's not enough mass, energy, or time left in the universe for any AI, no matter how powerful, to even come close. Just because a powerful AI could do something better than you doesn't mean it would do it before you, if at all. So I go back to what I originally said: There are people alive today that can do anything you can do better than you. Why would the knowledge that someone or something could do something you want to do better ever stop you from doing it?

You could, but then it wouldn't be GPLv2, it would be something else. Which, again, is perfectly fine. But that's not what he did here. He declared it GPLv2, then came back and tried to add a modifier onto that after the fact (reports are the modifier about the app store restriction was added at a later date). In addition there is the complication that his project incorporates an emulator that is not his and licensed as GPLv3, so this project is not 100% his work. In his later project, Delta, he's tried to separate his original code from the AGPLv3 of the project he incorporated, but again, his "license" declaration is a mess and I'm not sure it would hold up.

We are also doing more with lower broadcasting power as we move from analog to digital, and moving more and more to shaped, directional broadcast patterns in much of our technology. Just look at how cellular technology has progressed for a prime example. RF 'dimming' may be a natural course for most advancing civilizations. There may only be a small window where they are broadcasting with enough power that they could be detected over interstellar distances.

There are people alive in this world today who can do everything you can do, but better. Has that kept you from perusing any goals?

I agree with this. When people go "buh buh Apple" when looking at these two cases, I always go back to #2. Google went way over the line when they interfered with a business deal they were not a direct part of. They want to have the "we're open source!" cake but then maintain unreasonable control over the OEMs and they played it very dirty.

When I worked at a large consumer products company (they make amber colored bubbly water) they were testing an earlier version of these over a decade ago. They worked pretty well in most cases. They did have a tendency to trap unaware truck drivers who ignored instructions to stay out of the trailers when they were being loaded in the back of their trailers. They were smart enough not to crush the driver, they just adjusted where they put the pallet and basically walled them in.

In regard to the summary, they are asking for two things (they are asking for a lot more, I suggest reading the filing linked in the summary):

1) Allow distribution of 3rd party app stores via the play store (not side loading) for a period of 6 years.

2) Allow third party app stores to be pre-installed on Android phones if the app store owner and phone maker or carrier strike a deal to do so.

That last one was a big part of their lawsuit against Google: Google interfered and managed to kill a deal between Epic and OnePlus to include their app store on the device out of the box.

How? It says banning the sale to minors under 16, not banning possession by minors under 16.