I feel it's worse than this. Imagine being the brightest mind in college, have a ton of experience, just to invent new algorithms to get people to click on more ads.

You gotta admit, it's fun to meme the opposite camp. Whether you are a GUI or CLI person.

Where I'm from, it's legal to download cracked games so long as you've bought it legitimately. Paying for games isn't a problem, it's treating everyone as suspects that bugs me.

Free as in freedom. Not free beer.

What is it with Lemmy and far-[left | right] politics...

They gathered as much data they could on dislikes before it was removed, so it also shows actual numbers on older videos.

Curious, what's wrong with Spotify?

I feel like this has been happening for a few years. Maybe it's age, but I increasingly find better tech related content on HN.

I've been using NextDNS for a while now. It's great compared to VPN implementations like Blokada because it frees up your phone to use an actual VPN.

I've found PDNSQS for when I need to temporarily disable ad blocking, a really nice addition.

Doesn't make them less clever.

Reddit def won, but I have no idea why people still continue to moderate it for free. It's crystal clear that the do not care about their mods, and for all intends and purposes treat them as peasants.

Things break in weird ways on Linux due to dependencies. Snap/Flatpak/AppImage has yet to show if it's enough to fix the issue.

I've been in the same boat, and ended up installing a lot of utils just to keep my sanity. I used this guy as a primary resource: https://youtu.be/cfsNO14hikA

It's also part of what I want to avoid with something GUI-based/low maintenance.

Agreed. Community@instance.com would currently trigger my email client. If Lemmy could intercept those while in-app, that'd be great.