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EEVblog&some other YouTube channels, no longer free, at best (HD) quality levels
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MK14:

--- Quote from: Bud on August 17, 2023, 06:08:21 pm ---At food courts in malls food is much cheaper and better than in most of restaurants here. Like 3-4 times cheaper. No i am not talking burgers.

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Yes, but if you're in a foreign to yourself country.  Many people prefer to eat out and neither have the inclination or cooking apparatus available, to make meals.  E.g. A standard hotel room, without cooking equipment.
langwadt:

--- Quote from: MK14 on August 17, 2023, 07:04:14 pm ---
--- Quote from: Bud on August 17, 2023, 06:08:21 pm ---At food courts in malls food is much cheaper and better than in most of restaurants here. Like 3-4 times cheaper. No i am not talking burgers.

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Yes, but if you're in a foreign to yourself country.  Many people prefer to eat out and neither have the inclination or cooking apparatus available, to make meals.  E.g. A standard hotel room, without cooking equipment.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_court
MK14:

--- Quote from: langwadt on August 17, 2023, 07:49:27 pm ---https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_court

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Yes, I misunderstood their reply.  I think they are still somewhat rare in the UK, and that term, seemed to cause confusion with me.  As I was thinking of Food Halls, such as Marks & Spencers, food selling area(s), from quite a while back.

Some UK motorway service stations and airports, can have things which are similar to these Food Courts.
MK14:
Moving back on-topic, and updating this thread with my latest thoughts.

As I see it, this YouTube Premium subscription, currently only seems to be suitable to a minority of the people who use YouTube, everyday.

It could be that the people involved, are at the lower end of the income bracket, or retired, or in education.  They may not be especially interested in much of what TV/Movies can offer.  So for these and many other reasons, many, many people, WON'T be getting a YouTube Premium subscription.

So, I'm disappointed that YouTube are limiting YouTube's features and capabilities, in some respects, for non-subscribers.

Thinking out aloud.  Another fundamental, method of working it, would be having an internet money system.  Where, when people pay access fees to go on the internet (broadband monthly connection charges, mobile phone charges, internet cafe charges etc).  They could charge one amount, but it could be split into two parts (a bit like taxation systems).

So, a percentage of the bill, e.g. 25%, could go towards paying people/things/websites, depending on what percentage and amount of the overall worlds internet traffic, they process.

E.g. A bit like how some countries (in theory), pay for their expensive road infrastructure by adding a tax for the sale of Petrol/Gasoline, that fund (tax) can then be used to pay for better/new roads and similar.  (In practice governments tend to just see it as a new way of stealing obtaining money from hard working people, and then using it for their own agendas).

So in the UK, we have pot-holes in some roads, which damage our cars (in some cases) and we have to pay big bills to get the car fixed (because of the pot-holes), and we have to pay ever increasing bills for car tax (disc's, although paperless now), and Petrol/Gasoline fuel duties, which are sky high, percentage wise.

They even dilute the petrol, before we even get it, rumoured to reduce the MPG we get (by adding Bio-Ethanol to it, so only some of the percentage of fuel we get is actual Petrol, around 95% or 90% is actual Petrol, I'm not sure).

So that world wide 'internet tax', could be distributed, to help pay for things like YouTube.  The fact that, that payment would also go to competitors of YouTube.  I think, would be a good thing.

But there would be potentially bad things, from what I suggest.  Bandwidth consumption, doesn't actually equate to good quality content.  If you don't agree, then please watch YouTube shorts for 24 hours, without a break, and see if you do, after that.
langwadt:

--- Quote from: MK14 on August 18, 2023, 10:36:58 am ---Moving back on-topic, and updating this thread with my latest thoughts.

As I see it, this YouTube Premium subscription, currently only seems to be suitable to a minority of the people who use YouTube, everyday.

It could be that the people involved, are at the lower end of the income bracket, or retired, or in education.  They may not be especially interested in much of what TV/Movies can offer.  So for these and many other reasons, many, many people, WON'T be getting a YouTube Premium subscription.

So, I'm disappointed that YouTube are limiting YouTube's features and capabilities, in some respects, for non-subscribers.

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they are offering a free and paid service, deal with it. if you don't like service you can stop using it


--- Quote from: MK14 on August 18, 2023, 10:36:58 am ---Thinking out aloud.  Another fundamental, method of working it, would be having an internet money system.  Where, when people pay access fees to go on the internet (broadband monthly connection charges, mobile phone charges, internet cafe charges etc).  They could charge one amount, but it could be split into two parts (a bit like taxation systems).

So, a percentage of the bill, e.g. 25%, could go towards paying people/things/websites, depending on what percentage and amount of the overall worlds internet traffic, they process.

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--- Quote from: MK14 on August 11, 2023, 04:52:10 pm ---Otherwise, we would end up turning the entire world, into some kind of communist/socialist singularity.

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and now you want some elaborate tax system???


--- Quote from: MK14 on August 18, 2023, 10:36:58 am ---They even dilute the petrol, before we even get it, rumoured to reduce the MPG we get (by adding Bio-Ethanol to it, so only some of the percentage of fuel we get is actual Petrol, around 95% or 90% is actual Petrol, I'm not sure).

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the don't "dilute" the petrol, ethanol works as an octane booster and it is a helluva lot better than using MTBE or worse lead

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