Can you please stop verbally spitting at me?

I am not an American. I just have a different opinion on some things then you. Ever tried some empathy?

Pragmatically speaking, I prefer YouTube Premium because I hate their inability to filter out scammy ads, and I still feel like supporting creators at least a bit. As a customer, its not always my call how much of my money goes to creators. Thats why I refuse to use Apple Music and/or Spotify. I spend my money on BandCamp, which I consider an appropriate compensation for other "sins" I might commit on the net.

How does people having the ability to activate alternative app stores on their phones affect you? Or have a Pebble with similar functionality to an Apple Watch? Just don’t activate the App Store or purchase a Pebble and stay in your walled garden.

We’re lucky our computers aren’t walled gardens because if Apple knew it would work this well with iOS, MacOS would be the same.

> Ever tried some empathy?

Well, yeah. That's why I want walled gardens to "have options" without enforcing that people must/must-not use those options.

What's wrong with paying for YouTube Premium to not have any ads?

Apparently if you pay for things you lose your nerd club membership card.

There are other websites than YouTube…

Right, but the content creators that I watch upload to YouTube.

You don’t use any kind of content other than video?

YouTube Music.

And you don’t read any articles or look up random stuff like “how to unclog a sink”?

What's your point, exactly?

That such websites also contain ads and YouTube premium is not going to help you there.