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Re:YouTube (Un)Blocks Blender Videos by majewsky on Friday June 22, 2018 @04:34AM (#17372430)
Nitpick: Can we please stop saying "free-to-use" and instead say, for example, "paid-with-data"?
Re:YouTube (Un)Blocks Blender Videos by Arnt on Friday June 22, 2018 @06:41AM (#17372936)
"Paid with data" sounds nominally accurate but misleading.

Suppose there were a paid mail service, and another free one with a billion users, and the paid service's spam filtering relied on the free one for accuracy. (Spammers can't very well spam a hundred thousand people without hitting at least a few thousand of the billion.) Would you say that the users of the free one pay with data? They do, but to me, the phrase "paid with data" suggests other data than just the spam you get and whether you click "this is spam" on a particular message.

Re:YouTube (Un)Blocks Blender Videos by throwaway080322 on Friday June 22, 2018 @05:56AM (#17372757)
Or "spyware"? The fact that it historically meant something else doesn’t make it less fitting in my opinion.
Re:YouTube (Un)Blocks Blender Videos by endless1234 on Friday June 22, 2018 @06:08AM (#17372814)
But that implies you don't (also) pay with data if you pay for the service, which is often not true
Re:YouTube (Un)Blocks Blender Videos by eythian on Friday June 22, 2018 @06:43AM (#17372945)
It's not always true. Many things (often smaller things) are free to use and not paid with data.
Re:YouTube (Un)Blocks Blender Videos by SmellyGeekBoy on Friday June 22, 2018 @05:17AM (#17372609)
Nope.