If it was only few seconds. At best you can skip after 5s but then you get plenty of 15-50s ads every 5+ minutes or so with some videos. It makes it almost impossible to watch it.

Yes, sure, I just don’t want to watch ads. There is really too much of them

I would of if there was a family tier that plays YouTube without ads in my country. The content I watch is good and authors deserve payment IMO. Sadly there is currently no competition, there are some marginal subscription services and there is peertube which doesn’t have monetization.

There is another benefit - it can be played in the background if I remember properly.

Funny how such companies don’t care that employees would be more effective with better tools and those license prices would result in way over $20/month profit. 🤷‍♂️

Core development tools licenses are too expensive? That’s an odd company or from a very low standard country?

Any disk can and will fail at some point in time. Backup is your best friend. Some sort of disk redundancy is your second best friend.