To be fair, what they want is to make money off of you, be it through metadata or through advertising. It’s just that sending you videos happens to be the model which they use to get the metadata or advertising income.

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I think it’s less to do with the fact that ads exist, and more to do with how intrusive they are. Early YouTube ads were pretty tame compared to the ones today, especially when it was just banner ads.

That’s a good question.

There’s actually more value in metadata than just for advertising, such as scientific and general market research. And even just talking about ads, it’s still useful for both targeted and non-targeted ads and is not limited to the YouTube advertising space.

My metadata does more than enough to pay for my usage.

This is a valid point, but should be something that gets addressed on a case-by-case basis since it’s inevitably about that specific employee’s productivity.

But the composition is not the same as space dust, and could have a negative impact on the chemistry of the atmosphere.

There’s a few other things that dark matter explains which MOND doesn’t, such as the relative abundances of the light elements and galaxies with seemingly no dark matter present.

Don’t worry, this was just the Chinese campaign. The Russian one is still going strong.