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Why spend your own money when you can use your star power and proven track record to spend others' money. Nevermind, I forgot these guys are just paper billionaires but don't actually have any money, otherwise they'd pay a heck of a lot more in taxes.

To give benefit of doubt, author does state multiple times (including in the title) that these were "first impressions", so perhaps they should have mentioned something like "...In the next post, we'll explore performance and numbers" to avoid a cliffhanger situation, or do a part 1 (assuming the intention was to follow-up with a part 2).

The way I've come to think about this is that the relevance of the ad to you (as a YouTube viewer), is irrelevant. It matters not whether they are relevant to the content/topic of the video, or whether they are of the kind that SponsorBlock blocks, or those shown by YT algos. The ads serve one purpose, and one purpose alone - to bolster revenue for Google. What may have started out as a 'well-intentioned' (using the term loosely) means to recreate Costco-like ads for the digital realm in the early days of the web, was quickly consumed, like most everything else, by Corporate greed and morphed into a source of user frustration over time.

... for now, and barely.

If that's what you really believe, then I'd say Chinese government propaganda is working as intended.

Work faster to achieve AGI, so we can lay you off faster.

Came here to say this :)

...(APFS)

There's an app for that :)

Not anymore, AFAIK. Starting with the OP3 they switched to an instant purchase model.

On Reddit, one reads comments more so for their entertainment value, rather than actual substance or relevance to the topic posted by the OP. Of course, this is not always true and tend to vary by sub-reddit.