If you get it, purge and update your cache. It still works.

That would be a much better comparison if it was artificial intelligence, but these are just reinforcement learning models. They do not get inspired.

It is difficult though. Godot has been in development since 2007. It was not FOSS until 2014. It is still way behind Unity and Unreal Engine in many ways, which have been around since 2004 and 1995 respectively.

You aren’t paying creators, you are paying executives and middlemen.

Happily, not really. I pay for YouTube Premium, but I don’t like the monopoly they have and disagree with a lot of their decisions. I’d rather have a different economic system.

But yeah, I’d be willing to pay for the subscription in that case, even if I end up pirating most everything to get a better service.

Does it? Haven’t seen that and am in the European Union

That would be cool, but there is no good way to donate directly to the people contributing to the media you consume.

Like I said, subscriptions barely matter for the artists on those projects. Actors and animators generally get no royalties from streaming.

I wish there was a way to support the production, actors, writers, vfx artists, animators, etc. of good shows adequately while getting the piracy experience. This system really just fucking sucks. Even if you pay exorbitant amounts to streaming services, the people that made the art get jack shit.

Just a small note, universal healthcare isn’t an EU thing and not really adopted properly across the EU’s constituent countries

The good news is that GDPR protects you somewhat regardless of where you’re from and who you are. If a company fucks with the privacy of an EU citizen living in the USA they are still on the hook, so companies generally adopt the measures (e.g. the ability to request and delete all your data) globally. You can even just get a VPN and set it to somewhere in the EU.

Accepting cookies is not a GDPR regulation. It’s the cookie law, which is a lot older than GDPR.

Why not have a state-run instance on an open platform? It’s better than relying on a corporation’s platform. The government is ‘the people’ more than corporations are.