You can be a perfectly good dev and not enjoy working in the cli, especially when there are good enough alternatives

You just need to move to the new API, which is free, the old one is still available temporarily if you pay

You just have to move to the new API which is still free, the old one is temporarily still available by paying

They'd absolutely 100% be losing money with a $2 ad free tier. Ads make significantly more than that per user per month. Same with your """solution""" for higher res video. Bandwidth is goddamn expensive.

For reference this is about $20 USD

If you have a masters and 20 years of experience, you're pretty much guaranteed to have a job that has the health insurance to pay for all of that. If you don't, then you need a new job

Bruh almost like the internet is just reposts crazy

Google DOES make money from ads. A metric tuckton of it. Why the fuck else would they need your data other than to serve better ads???

People take the word "observe" at face value (no pun intended) a bit too often

Google ads are really the only ones worth a damn. Easy to sign up, they pay very well, and their libraries are incredibly easy to implement.

The alternative is some no-name you've never heard of that requires you to apply for entry to use their platform and serves you virus ads.

Pick one

Yeah FOSS is rarely better than the commercial equivalent. Almost universally they're terrible in a hundred minor ways that makes them annoying as hell to use. The best FOSS products come from... Company sponsorship.

Captchas pretty much worthless. They're easily bypassed for basically free. You're better off putting your instance behind Cloudflare with their captcha