I think you're mistaken about what this lower price tier offers. It is still ad-free, except for Youtube Music which is ad-supported. If a regular YouTube video uses a song that belongs to the YouTube Music catalog, it will have ads as normal. Also, this tier doesn't offer background playback (with the phone screen turned off).
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I got genuinely curious, and so I asked ChatGPT to write a less biased headline. I got this: "Israeli airstrikes target Hamas militants hiding in civilian areas, leading to tragic collateral damage at a hospital in northern Gaza."
The moment Hezbollah resorted to launching missiles at Israeli territory, and Israel fought back, then diplomacy failed already.
Hezbollah has been sending missiles to Israeli territory for almost a year. So they started this war, but Israel has been very lenient by not starting a full-scale war until now. The patience has run out. Like they used to say: fuck around and find out.
Maybe they're eyeing potential spoils of war? These military operations will need sources of financing.
But, realistically, they're probably planing the formation of an exclusion zone to avoid Hezbollah installing missile launchers so close to Israel's borders.
I'd argue Lemmy is turning into its own echo chamber. I've seen some mods power tripping just like good old Reddit. I erroneously thought people would learn from past mistakes, but sadly this is not what happened.
For me, the page doesn't allow me to scroll past the first sentence of the article.
Maybe it's because I'm using mobile Firefox with uBO? I only managed to read the article through here.