Yes, and there are much better countries than the UK.

Thankfully, you’re wrong. I mean even the most far right party in the UK, The Reform Party, has better social policies than Democrats in the US, lol.

Every US government is the same indeed. But the life outside the US is very different.

What the fuck is wrong with US? It feels like I’m leaving a comment like this way too often… What the fuck?

You’re forgetting amortization. You can’t copy a video file to a drive and expect it to last forever. It requires energy to run and the drivers break down over time. Google is one of the largest consumers of HDDs and SSDs in the world. Plus you need to pay engineers who maintain the whole thing, pay the finance team to make orders, etc. And then you have to have recycling and logistics. I bet they dispose of the whole truck loads of old drives every day, you can’t put that many in your recycling bin and call it a day.

No one will ever pay for services like YouTube. Thus ads is the only way.

The problem is very simple - the majority of people are technically illiterate. Apple and Google saw the Windows XP security fiasco, looked at how many people use smart phones today and decided that giving users any rights is not worth the risk.