if google made youtube premium like $3/month no one would bat an eye and sub. but they're approaching netflix prices and that's just way to much. i rather support the creators directly than throwing money at google who will give the creators crumbs until they demonetize them because google is doing google things. also won't solve the privacy problem that comes with using their native site/apps.
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imagine getting first replaced by some kid out of a garage, then by indian code farms and now by ai developed by the grown up kids from said garage and trained by indian code farms.
at that point i consider it a microsoft tradition to do the "hey, i see you're using Y, we have a similar product called Z and it's better, do you want to try it?"-routine no one asked for.
can't wait for "shellshock", "wildfire" and "collapse".
for every based thing the eu does, they do at least 10 pants-on-head retarded things to contradict the good ones. it's almost like watching a contemporary art performance.
impossible people, sponsored content, ads and your data on a buffet - it was long overdue, but i'm glad it's finally gaining momentum.
oh lol
apple might oppose this to some point, they're often not in line with google.
same problem we had back in the ie5/6 days: it was just there and most people don't care. i physically cringe when i watch co-workers using chrome with not even a basic adblocker installed, klicking away ads, promts, pop-ups, videos and whatnot just to access a news article. it's horrible!
i still wait for the day when i can criticize the state of israel and some of it's policies without getting branded as an antisemite.
@grafcube it's very important to push back against google's browser hegenomy just like we did back in the day with microsoft because now it's not just about one company controllin the software to access the majority of the web but the privacy of it.
i remember when i was a kid, i was hiking with my parents and we spent a night on about 2500m and looking up i obviously had a great view of the cosmos BUT i also could see some satelites moving and even the then MIR space station. i was impressed that "we" are actually up there for everyone down here to see. i guess the current generation want's a pristine night sky AND 24/7 internet, gps and tv.
i agree, the problem is, that if google succeeds and (popular/mainstream) websites refuse to let said browsers access the sites, it's an uphill battle in wich we will eventually lose the normie webizens.
it's funny how the "when we were kids, whe didn't even had a tv at home and we were happy"-routine from our grandparents moved up to "we watched the same episode on vhs on repeat!" now millennials are getting older.
i wouldn't be so sure about it. apple strongarmed google with jpgxl support and the european union pryed open their eco system, at least for eu citizens. apple currently positioning themselves on the side of privacy advocates would lose this standing (and many customers who switched to iphone because of it). i know, they could sugarcoat this, but i have a little hope left that they will draw a line on at least the most user hostile stuff.
it's a glorified, automated search engine that just know linguistics better than siri does.
True, but musk did block woods recently.
you call it "some tweaking" when in reality for 99,5% of android users it would be the same to tell them to get better performance on their cars if you just switch out the engine, do a custom paint job und replace the computer", just to have them finding out, it's not even possible because on most models the hood cannot be opened.
no, we don't. we just don't want to pay several times to read a news article: first, a paywall (often with ridiculous prices), second, with our data. news sites mostly have the most hostile cookie policies in place i have ever seen - they want to "analyze" EVERYTHING, on of the bigger news papers in my country wants to install like 20 cookies just to allow me to visit their site. and third, ads left and right, autoplay videos and a hunger for hardware like a contemporary video game. finally, let's not talk about the quality of most contemporary news outlets, somewhere inbetween buzzfeed clickbait and being a gov't spox.
i worked over a decade in one of the biggest multinational publishing houses in europe, right on time when everyting went digital and that experience haunts me to this day.
since it's a a smaller polish instance i'm not sure they're even aware that they are hosting bots and defederation should be the very last resort, so i's good the kbin team is reaching out.
don't forget the absence of easy to install addons! such a delight!
i hope mozilla is already working on an iOS version for the EU market ;)
that's pretty much the case for all celeb accounts tbqh
"I would probably drop 50 cents to read a single article from a news site" - a complete newspaper is somewhere between a dollar and three.
the EU can be really schizo when it comes to stuff like that, that's true. i don't trust them. and apple as a last hope ... well, maybe when it comes to big tech. can't think of anything better within the FAANG pantheon.
"circlejerk" is the magic word. it's funny how many threads are just meta discussion about the platform and why "the old ones" are trash and doomed to fail, like some ppl have to convince each other over and over again that it's the others that miss out.
reddit is garbage and the problem isn't the lack of alternatives but that reddit culture is moving there with the tourists and migrants from reddit. it's like a social media human centipede.
because i distrust this kind of technology in general and for sure it would add to the dystopian, anti-consumer, anti-workforce agenda big tech is currently enforcing. i work in desktop publishing and about 3/4 of jobs in that branche would be cancelled the moment ai could replace them for a fraction of the cost.
one of the main reasons i prefer threema over signal is that threema does not run on any of my personal data to get started.
proton suite. i'm using it since 2016 and never looked back.
you're confusing things, i talk about not handing over my internet profile and it's associated data to a conglomerate to make money off it, you talk about anonymity. two different pair of shoes.
this. they simply have to port the version they're developing for android now and we're golden. i guess it might find it's way on non-eu-devices by community builds and testflight.
this is never going to happen unless musk looks for a reason to shut xitter down. like so many times before he's talking out loud what he's thinking right now, creating a massive migrane among the guys still running the site and everyone who is financially invested in it.
my masto experience so far (starting fall last year):
1st instance: everything goes well, got a small, but nice following. at some point i find out - by accident - that i'm shadowbanned. contact support, they told me that someone complained about something and to appease them, they muted my posts from the instances public timeline ("account was not suspended because no rules were broken") without even telling me. they refuse to this day to tell my what i posted to trigger this. deleted my account after this.
2nd instance: after one (!) day a zerg army of right wing weirdos started to spam my mentions, calling me a "fed" and other well known slurs because i posted something they didn't agree with. deleted my account after this.
meanwhile i still have my 700 followers on twitter and for some reason no one shadowbanned me or tried to bully me away. guess i should just open my own instance :^)
if you love being the product, go ahead. i haven't used any gapp in years and don't feel like i'm missing something.
twitter was still operating on a hail mary for years, musk just made it more obvious and his erratic handling of operations put a few more nails into the coffin. sadly, the fediverse won't be the successor we all hoped for,
welp, i guess it's over.
you know, those guys who like and retweet each other.
do what i did: bring your friends :>
streaming hit the wall the moment every corp wanted to make their own service to cut out netflix. the boom in streaming happend - at least in most parts of europe - because basically everything anyone wanted (even some hbo titles) had been on netflix for 10 eurobucks a month and now you have to sub at least three services for almost thrice the price each. and especially disney+ is complete trash if you're not a marvel/star wars stockholm syndrome victim. now asking for even more in times of inflation and recession is a slap into the face of subscribers.