Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers.

jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Fades@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Google more than just kind of sucks. Like you said they haven’t done shit in a long time outside of making the internet more hostile with shit like this and their planned chrome-based anti adblock (a LOT of browsers run on chromium which would bring the same shit, Mozilla4lyfe)

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  • Zealousideal_Fox900@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    UP FIREYFOX!

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• bitflag@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Android? Google Photo? Google Pixel? Google Pay? Google Apps? Chrome? Chromebook? Google Drive? Chromecast? Android Auto?

  They launched a ton of successful stuff since Maps came out in 2005

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  • chilicheeselies@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Google photo sucks

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    • papertowels@lemmy.one ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What do you prefer using?

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      • fiddlestix@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Immich is on a par with Google Photos, imo. It’s self hosted though, so not for everyone.

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    • bitflag@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I personally love it. Being able to search “Tom at the beach drinking a cocktail” and get all the relevant pictures is magic.

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    • lustrum@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Does it? It’s a fantastic service that works really well, whether it’s worth the price or privacy is a slightly different conversation

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      • ZiemekZ@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        whether it’s worth the price

        You don’t have to pay Google a penny. I bought a quite cheap (50-60$) used but working Pixel 1 XL specifically for unlimited lifetime full-quality Google Photos upload.

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You got me! Android came after maps in 2008. So that’s not a great argument for recent development. Is pixel meaningfully different than Nexus? That would put it in 2010, or 2016 if you insist pixel is a big innovation.

    Chromebooks are also a 2010 project.

    Google pay I don’t think is a success? Didn’t they like relaunch it recently and shit it up by tying it to phone numbers instead of your Google account? arstechnica.com/…/google-pays-disastrous-year-con… arstechnica.com/…/google-pay-hopes-to-recover-fro… . Also the original release is 2011. Quite some time ago. But technically newer than maps!

    Drive is 2012. Dang, got me. But that’s still more than 10 years old, so my actual point seems to stand.

    Chromecast is 2013, so maybe within this decade.

    Auto is 2015 but I know nothing about it.

    I guess I should’ve said “in the past 7 years” instead of exaggerating and saying since maps!

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    • bitflag@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      But all “successes” are gonna be years old. You don’t turn something like Chromebook into an overnight success. It takes years for an ecosystem to grow, users to find use cases, software revisions to polish the product, word of mouth, etc.

      For comparison the Apple watch came out in 2015 and Airpods in 2016. What other successes has Apple had in the past 7 years? Maybe their AR thing will take off, but if it does it’s probably 5-10 years from becoming a mass market product.

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• Polar@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Ignoring everything after Google maps is ignorant as hell. I mean Google Photos is literally used by a massive percentage of iPhone users as well, because it’s so good.

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  • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You seem to be unfamiliar with hyperbole, or maybe just didn’t recognize it here.

    Also they kind of enshittified Google photos by walking back the unlimited storage promise. Probably not the best project to point to for “Google doesn’t suck” arguments.

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    • Polar@lemmy.ca ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      They didn’t walk it back. Pixel 1 still has unlimited storage.

      You’re insufferable.

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      • federatingIsTooHard@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re insufferable. Whatever fits your agenda.

        irony

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      • LemmysMum@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You’re insufferable. Whatever fits your agenda.

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      • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        They didn’t walk it back. Pixel 1 still has unlimited storage.

        And for some time, other devices did as well. And then they changed it. Would some other term than “walking back” describe “they offered a good deal to customers, and then changed it to a less good deal” better for you?

        Do you like work for Google or something? Probably not. The handful of people I’ve met who work there aren’t nearly this zealous about defending it.

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• floppade@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most of their innovation has been for developers it seems.

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