ElectroNeutrino

Good and services are still primarily purchased with fiat in most of the world. You need to be able to actually use it for it to be useful, so whether or not blockchain is theoretically better doesn't matter there if there isn't wide enough adoption.

I wonder how that's going to play out with Apple and their monopoly.

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.

Because you aren't an individual to them, you're a statistic providing them with valuable market research on how their service is used.

"People that watch this collection of video classifications are more likely to watch videos who's thumbnails have these characteristics. Only 1% of them use ad blocking so we can improve our ad presentation rate if we present more videos with these thumbnails to this group."

Yes and no. Metadata is more than just tracking info. I did mention watch history, likes, and mouse position, which are not things that can really be blocked. This also includes things such as how likely you are to click on a video based on thumbnail and screen position, how long you watch specific videos as well as how long your overall watch train is. They know what they're showing you, where it is, and what you click and when; that's enough to provide a hell of a lot if data. All in all, how you actually use the service is something that they pay very close attention to, and is still very valuable.

Is it as valuable as tracking info and advertising, definitely not. But it's far from worthless.

Your metadata is still extremely valuable to them, and it's not limited to just watch history and likes, but rather everything on how you engage in their services, including where your mouse cursor sits.

And Musk has already initiated a lawsuit against those who have shone a light on it.

Not using it helps do that.

Fair. My point was more that there are some breeds where it's not just "more likely" to have poor health.

Counterpoint: The pug.

I've seen more than one hour long ad. It let you skip after 5 seconds, but imagine if someone were leaving it on as background.

Just like every other conservative social network *cough* Truth Social *cough*.