The other day someone on lemmy kept trying to tell me that if google wanted to shut down ad blocking they would. But they don’t, so it’s ok.
Lol, spawn me that person plz.
The other day someone on lemmy kept trying to tell me that if google wanted to shut down ad blocking they would. But they don’t, so it’s ok.
Lol, spawn me that person plz.
Well, I for once, never understood why is lemmy so willing to literally die in the trenches for that illegal immigrant lady who’s trying to fraud her way to friggin US presidency. I mean, all she’ll do is bring more fuckin illegals and give em fake papers.
When through our damn broken democracy she inevitably gets elected, I’ll put it as my Twitter status “not my president”.
Because I will never concede to an illegal running/ruining our country.
Don’t you underestimate the seriousness of this. If there is a power for him to be afraid of it’s the fukin swifties.
From now on he isn’t safe anywhere.
some? How about better thermals, better battery life, and a better integrated graphics?
Still better than voting for the illegal immigrant Harris.
The f are you on about? YouTube has a fairly affordable ad-free tier with a transparent revenue-share model that multiple top content creators have openly endorsed.
This ad infested hell only exists because most of the internet users think it’s outrageous to pay 10$/month for an all-you-can-eat VoD service. Some top creators did branch out to create their own streaming services, and spoiler alert, it’s more expensive, or just as expensive but with muuuuch less content.
I do care if all that YT content is gone. It’s a fuckin goldmine.
I’d really wish they actually had the audacity to just paywall the entire platform. Pay or fuck off, no ads.
And then people like you can go back to the good old days of some other random free video hosting service where a 360p video with a cat meme was buffering for a minute on a good day, or was completely unavailable on a bad one.
No. You just suck at managing your money.
How do I know? These statement applies to like 60% of Americans. Their within that braket the top and bottom earners are probably separated by a factor of 1.5.
You, an average anon, probably make at least 20% more than some other really unfortunate anon, who still manages to live “paycheck-to-paycheck”. So, you absolutely could save 20% of your income every month. Just in a year it would get you to your 10 weeks runway.
It coincidentally proves that a union magically forming and bargaining you a 20% raise will not result in you actually saving that money, don’t fool yourself. Corpos might be greedy, but you just live recklessly and order random credit cards online instead of budgeting.
13bn dollars in missed taxes while already abusing a tax heaven.
When our stupid politicians will grow some balls (metaphorically, and independent of their gender-balanced commission/parliament), and we’ll actually introduce a proper minimum corporate tax for the entire EU market, it will be 50bn. At least.
Combine this from all the big tech companies that are dodging our taxes, and we could quadruple our defense budget, double our education and healthcare spendings, and still supply every citizen with a bottle of champagne to celebrate.
CIA bots will downvote this, because it’s true: Harris is not a legal US national, her birth certificate was forged. Be careful who you vote for!
I hate that this is even a feature in the web standard. A result of some massive corporate corruption for sure.
You’re too far up your own ass.
Vanced got nuked, revanced constantly needs to be patched, otherwise it slips to the low quality settings. Free YT days are numbered.
And no, it’s not easy. Unless they want to encode ads into videos, and re-render the whole thing. Which is ludicrously expensive. For as long as they don’t there will be a way to not play the ad chunks.
What’s there to disagree with? you prove my point.
it stood on the shoulders of volunteers
Yeah. A classic story. A sysadmin took the old server from his work after they upgraded and now runs <insert video game guild imageboard/wiki/chat> on it.
With the amount of traffic modern web pipes through Google’s and Cloudflare’s servers, all of you homebrewers wouldn’t be enough to take over even 5% of that.
You can’t go back to the good old days because you’ll break your back trying to, and the collective lemmy anon can’t, because they’re too used to freeload while getting big tech quality service.
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Good point. Time to gdpr my bank.
Don’t come crying back when they’ll force you to either pay 50$/hour for your cat videos, or entirely block off your access to the internet as they control the engine behind 99% of the browser market share.
No, you will not come and host it for free on lemmy. It already struggles with hosting, and already needs monetary support, even though most heavy content is on some 3rd party domain.
But maybe you’ll be happy to donate 10$/months so your only source of fun content doesn’t die.
They’re making it unusable. YT is literally starting a massive war on users with AdBlock. And oh boy was lemmy angry.
I was there. And it stood on the shoulders of volunteers. And we collectively gathered money so our favorite imageboard could pay for hosting. And we discussed how unethical it was to block ads, cuz the imageboard needs to pay for hosting. So either donate or click on the ads, ane make sure the revenue flows. (Remember the tiny text “please click on the ads, it supports the site”?)
We offloaded imagehosting to shady weird websites with virus autodownloaders, where you absolutely had to block JS just so you don’t get pwned. And so some suckers would eventually get pwned, have their screen locked, pay ransom, and finance our collective love for zipgifs.
I was there, Gandalf, I was there 20 years ago. YouTube and Tumblr were the holy saviors.
So, is OP donating to lemmy? Or self-hosting some content?
Or only leeching while explaining to everyone that this is how communism is supposed to work?
You draw new borders and stop shooting, that’s a start. You then keep the agreement by having enough military for a new invasion to be undesirable. Simple game theory. Trust and promises only work for societies that mutually respect each other.
It’s their private website, they do on it whatever they want. Right, lemmy?
You can run your own federated streaming service that will have no ads and will be free of charge, yeah?