[Louis Rossmann] Google supports right to repair? Think again.

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Google supports right to repair? Think again.
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For the people in the comments not in the know: Rossmann is a respected voice for this sort of thing, even if this post looks like an ad. He's not one of the bad ones (yet).

this guy is insufferable. these videos are just unnecessarily long speeches that would fit an article so much better than a video.

not to mention that his whole YouTube/Odysee channel is disguised advertisement for their businesses.

But if you just watch his videos and buy his stuff he will teach you how to repair yours!11! /s

The few times I watched his videos, he sounded like a libertarian bro, saying that if you just put the effort, you too can become successful. You just have to pull yourself by the bootstraps or something. He's showing you everything you need to know to be as successful as him! And maybe it was sarcasm and I didn't catch it but at one point he muttered something about Trump fixing the potholes of New York. That's about when I stopped taking him seriously.

He's still an important voice for the right to repair movement but you're right. I also can't stand him. Unfortunately he has very dedicated/vocal eeehm, fans, so legitimate remarks on him are often met with downvotes.

For the last 3 years he's been saying it's no longer possible to be successful financially doing what he does. He did used to say that, though, because at one point it was true.

Why does it feel like this post is an ad?

Posting the URL grabbed the first line of the video description which is an ad for his repair business.

A person who repairs is talking about right to repair.

Right to repair benefits consumers, whether he makes money from it or not

Selling only a bundle of parts that cost near the price of a new one is worth diddly to consumers. Third party repair is a benefit for consumers and they need individual parts and scematic to repair.

because it is. Every time I see one of this guy's videos posted it ends up being a clickbait video to promote his business.

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