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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by CamperBob2 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @10:59AM (#37283333)
(Shrug) Insane, whatever. All I know is, when I call the IRS, I can get a human on the phone who actively wants to help.

Try that with Google, PayPal, Amazon, Apple, or any number of other companies when an error they've made but refuse to even explain, much less fix, threatens to wreck your livelihood.

To redress grievances with my government, I don't need to make the front page of HN or go viral on Twitter. We don't go a week around here without another front-page lamentation to appeal for noblesse oblige from one of these intentionally-faceless megacorps. That's not how you should have to deal with a company you're doing business with... but it is how you deal with a dictator who leaves you no other choice.

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by dahfizz on Sunday August 27, 2023 @11:53AM (#37283844)
"megacorps have bad customer support" is a wildly different assertion than "megacorps are indistinguishable from government"
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by CamperBob2 on Sunday August 27, 2023 @01:39PM (#37284880)
Ask the next person who comes on here begging for someone to unlock their account or restore their data so that they can make payroll.
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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by dahfizz on Monday August 28, 2023 @08:45AM (#37293127)
There is a really simple flow chart to figure this out:

"Does entity X have a monopoly on violence?" If yes, they are a government. If no, they are not.

Whether X is nice or mean, important or unimportant, is irrelevant.

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Re:Block YouTube Ads on AppleTV by Decrypting and Stripping ... by CamperBob2 on Monday August 28, 2023 @12:17PM (#37296452)
That's simple in countries without a Second Amendment, or that don't recognize self-defense as a fundamental human right, but it's not simple in this one.
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