ARE YOU KIDDING ME YOUTUBE !!!

and further more

Already seen it, he missed the point by quite a margin, hence i did not bother to post it here.
The lack of options is the issue, and that is why they can pull such s#it off easily, but something does not add up for me:
-why are payment processors forcing this when it lowers their profits
-why are credit card issuers submitting to payment processors when this lowers their profits
-why are companies complying with all above as again it lowers their profits and alienates customers
As a result crypto is flying high and will continue to do so, especially when someone figures out how to skip all above by using this, and this opens another black market on the net for po...kemon pictures and stuff...
My conclusion :
CONGRATULATIONS humans, you have become the most valuable asset on the internet!!!
If Alphabet, Meta, Tencent, et al can pay astronomical amounts of money to credit card issuers and payment processor for the loss of profits, and they accept it silently and without the smallest backfire, we as internet users have become quite pricey.
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BTW, do not fall for scams like "VPN is secure" =it is not and they sell all your data and use your PC for their stuff just check latest ticketmaster fails, "we are building new internet that has nothing to do with this one" = they can not, short of plowing half the world and laying new cables/optics.
For both of those there was and is a solution for over 10 years, use TOR, just do read a bit before jumping in, OK?

Also looking into TAILS a linux distro. It also uses TOR.  I am not surprised about VPN's it seemed
like a convenient way to funnel people into specific systems. Kind of like saving everything into
cloud servers except all in real time.  

TAILS is the only distro that is set out correctly out of the box to use TOR.
Other distros expect you to set up stuff and make sure the TOR network is ON and connected before opening the internet browser.
Again, the issue is internet, search youtube and you end up with millions of videos on how to stay anonymous on the net, all insisting on using Kali Linux. So far i've seen 1 insist on TAILS.
The "content creator" profession has cr@pped out, as with everything humans do, millions of dumb f@ks yapping about stuff they have no clue.
Pity, as there are some magnificent creators on youtube that i enjoy watching, some i watch despite being certain i am way more capable than, but i enjoy how they present and do stuff, some are funny, some swear and curse, some have no clue but learn by doing, some are just "watchable" .....
We need to start on that list.

tommylight wrote:

The "content creator" profession has cr@pped out, as with everything humans do, millions of dumb f@ks yapping about stuff they have no clue.
Pity, as there are some magnificent creators on youtube, some have no clue ....
 

Hey, I'm one of them, I've been posting YT content for 15 years with no structure, no script and no idea. Despite these failings, a month ago, I looked at what I had been doing and I had 980 followers but only 500 hours watch time/365 days. You can monetise YT if you have 1000 followers and 4000 hours/365 days so I am on a mission to get to 4000 watch hours.

One thing I found was that I had content on a couple of channels because I started before Google linked YT to your Google account and uploading from a phone inherited my Google user if I wasn't careful. So I used yt_dlp to download some content from the wrong channel and moved it to where it could actually be part of my real channel! Then I found all these clips hiding on my video camera for a few years.

I use a tool called vidIQ and I asked it to give me a AI script for my latest video. It really was an amazing script but missed the real detail you can only get with hands on experience. By the time I added that, after producing 7 minutes of it, , I found I have enough content for two videos. 

VidIQ is an amazing tool and I've had it busy fine-tuning titles, creating thumbnails and back filling all the Tags and SEO stuff under my watchful eye.

It would be easy to bang out content from AI scripts en masse, but digging up the additional resources and filming extra stuff that's needed all takes time.... I reckon at least a 40 hour week per video.

Anyway, my 365 day watch hours have increased by 100 in just a fortnight just by adding some structure.... andhelp from AI.

Rod, you have misquoted me.... see the end of your..hmmm..my quote.
Thank you for the info, and yes i am one of those creators, lousy one at that, but we only yap about stuff we know and have experience with.
I have 3 channels on youtube, well 4 but one is the old one with my full name and surname, and keeping them updated requires a lot of time that for now i have some, but convincing myself that stuff i do daily might be interesting to others might take a bit of time.
I have gathered cameras and mic's and stuff as i usually do hoarding everything, so i just need a kick in the behind, and a good one, to actually start doing something.
Please do comment/rant on this, i was thinking of doing live q&a on all 3 channels, about issues and machines and 3D printers and PC's, not "where are you from" and "how old are you" or "what is your shoe size"...
And the timing is a bit tricky as i am in Europe, so 10PM here is 4PM in US east side, so probably will have to do 12AM to 2AM here for 6PM to 8PM in US.