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To download means to own. (Without [[Data_lock-in#Videos_downloaded_inside_the_YouTube_app|YouTube Premium's data lock-in]]!)

The main purpose of YouTube is downloading videos to keep them alive after they are taken down from YouTube and after YouTube inevitably shuts down.

YouTube employee who reads this: **TRIGGERED**

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- [https://karl-voit.at/cloud-dependencies/ Karl Voit]

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Anti-features like [[Google_Chrome#Mandatory_pull-to-refresh|Google Chrome's mandatory pull-to-refresh]] are "helpful" to the user in the same way SpongeBob was "helpful" to Squidward in the episode "[http://en.spongepedia.org/index.php?title=The_Paper_(Episode)#Plot The Paper]".

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== Noticing similar patterns ==

When I hear Google saying they want to "keep Android open" ([[Android Developer Verification]]) while blatantly doing the opposite, I am instantly reminded of that scene where Bryant Moreland (EDP445) claimed he was just looking for a cupcake. Similar levels of shamelessness, and similar in taking advantage of people with little recourse, even though within different contexts. I am not going to explain the story with Moreland here; you can go look it up if you don't already know.

While what Moreland was trying to do was more serious on a small scale and was easily thwarted, what Google is doing with their developer verification program happens on a much larger scale. It impacts potentially over a hundred million people worldwide.

From the Merriam Webster dictionary:

predator [noun]:

[...]

2 : one who injures or exploits others for personal gain '''or profit'''

Businessmen, he believed, were often predators … — Nathan Glick

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(souce: [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/predator Merriam Webster], bolded for emphasis)

Things that make you go hmmmmm....

EDP445

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If it can be remotely disabled, you don't own it.

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 To d<b>own</b>load means to <b>own</b>. (Without [[Data_lock-in#Videos_downloaded_inside_the_YouTube_app|YouTube Premium's data lock-in]]!)
+The main purpose of YouTube is d<b>own</b>loading videos to keep them alive after they are taken down from YouTube and after YouTube inevitably shuts down.
+YouTube employee who reads this: <b>**TRIGGERED**</b>
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 </blockquote>
 - [https://karl-voit.at/cloud-dependencies/ Karl Voit]
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+Anti-features like [[Google_Chrome#Mandatory_pull-to-refresh|Google Chrome's mandatory pull-to-refresh]] are "helpful" to the user in the same way SpongeBob was "helpful" to Squidward in the episode "[http://en.spongepedia.org/index.php?title=The_Paper_(Episode)#Plot The Paper]".
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+== Noticing similar patterns ==
+When I hear Google saying they want to "keep Android open" ([[Android Developer Verification]]) while blatantly doing the opposite, I am instantly reminded of that scene where Bryant Moreland (EDP445) claimed he was just looking for a cupcake. Similar levels of shamelessness, and similar in taking advantage of people with little recourse, even though within different contexts. I am not going to explain the story with Moreland here; you can go look it up if you don't already know.
+While what Moreland was trying to do was more serious on a small scale and was easily thwarted, what Google is doing with their developer verification program happens on a much larger scale. It impacts potentially over a hundred million people worldwide.
+From the Merriam Webster dictionary:
+<blockquote>
+predator [noun]:
+[...]
+: one who injures or exploits others for personal gain '''or profit'''
+<blockquote>
+Businessmen, he believed, were often predators … — Nathan Glick
+</blockquote>
+</blockquote>
+(souce: [https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/predator Merriam Webster], bolded for emphasis)
+Things that make you go hmmmmm....
+<div style="text-align:center; display:block; font-family:aharoni, Futura-Bold, futura,'noto sans',ubuntu,'bitstream vera sans',sans-serif; font-weight:bold; letter-spacing:0.5em; color:black;">
+<span style="color:#4285F4;">E</span><span style="color:#EA4335;">D</span><span style="color:#FBBC05;">P</span><span style="color:#4285F4;">4</span><span style="color:#34A853;">4</span><span style="color:#EA4335;">5</span>
+</div>
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+If it can be remotely disabled, you don't own it.
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