Control, and a means of targeting anyone who they want to paint as "the other".

Did you hear what happened to Jimmy? Taken away to prison because he looked at GILF content.

It's only one step away from all the people who mysteriously fall out of windows in Russia.

Yarrrrrr indeed

Companies see that as a mistake. They want you on a subscription for life that they can arbitrarily change at any time.

Profits not increasing enough for this quarter? Better cut content, increase prices, increase the number of ads.

Profits increased amazingly this quarter? Better cut content, increase prices, increase the number of ads.

Profits down? Better cut content, increase prices, increase the number of ads, and start adding extra paywalls to some content

They want you to own nothing. Oh you unsubscribed? Sorry even the content you paid extra to unlock was only available while your subscription continued, you will need to start your subscription again and then pay to unlock the content again.

A show isn't popular enough? Better write it off, pull it from all distribution so you can claim it as a tax write off

Honestly might be part of it, by going out of spec on the timestamps it probably let's them more easily insert different length ads

Whenever a news article asks a question, you can always answer no.

Oil companies will simply reduce supply so they can make the same or more $ per barrel

For your experience to only be degraded a little.

For an slightly better but still degraded experience they want you on Google Chrome. But remember please use 360p or lower so their poor servers don't have to work so hard, they even help you do this by default on mobile!

They make a bunch of the other chips that go into computer devices, and from what I understand it's binary blob or nothing for a lot of it?

The only shocking thing is that the rich idiot who said "fuck you" to all the safety standards actually suffered consequences.

That's crazy talk! Just mentioning that made my shares in FuckThisPlanetOilForLife drop by 0.0000001 percent! You'll ruin the economy! Think of the share holders and the rich!

Adobe well probably use the tried and true excuse of "scanning for child abuse material" and cry that anyone who refuses must be a pedo.

Then they'll just steal the data anyway and use/sell it to train AI models.

Process sugar (diabeetus)

I have had many, many victories, often numerous victories in a single day while younger.

Now my victories, while still glorious, often occur days apart.

But I will battle on FOR THE GLORY OF THE EMPIRE!