FrostyPolicy
@FrostyPolicy@suppo.fi
- Comment on The Prime Reasons to Avoid Amazon 22 hours ago:
Prices mysteriously go up about a week before prime day sales, then drop to a few dollars below normal, scream “39% off” and you feel like you beat the system.
Gladly this practice is illegal in Finland at lest. Here companies having sales have to show the lowest price of that product within the last 30 days just for this very reason.
- Comment on Why your old mobile phone may be polluting Thailand 1 week ago:
That’s usually the answer to these kind of questions.
- Comment on Why your old mobile phone may be polluting Thailand 1 week ago:
Mine too.
- Comment on If you live in the EU or UK, don't forget to sign the Stop Killing Games petition! 1 week ago:
Signed it months ago.
- Comment on Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026. 1 week ago:
Businesses can’t be expected to indefinitely support a piece of technology for free.
Of course not but they themselves announced long ago that win10 will be EOL’d in October 2025. Then later they announced that you can buy extra support for plenty and increasing amounts of money. And now this.
Though even longer ago they announced that win10 will be the last windows ever.
- Comment on Microsoft Came to Bargain: Use OneDrive for Device Backup, Opt into Loyalty Program and Use Their Products Till You Earn 1000 Points or Pay $30 and They Might Give You Security Updates till Oct 2026. 1 week ago:
So windows 10 isn’t EOL’d in October 2025 after all.
- Comment on Google’s Privacy Sandbox is Dead. The Fight for Real Online Privacy Continues. 3 weeks ago:
Good riddance. It was never about privacy anyhow. Only to enhance google’s monopoly in ads.
- Comment on Portal 2 Community Edition's new, upgraded lighting system (no raytracing required) 1 month ago:
It’s a mod. …steampowered.com/…/Portal_2_Community_Edition/
- Comment on YouTube's new ad strategy is bound to upset users: YouTube Peak Points utilise Gemini to identify moments where users will be most engaged, so advertisers can place ads at the point. 1 month ago:
Laughs in FreeTube.
- Comment on Garmin adds AI and a subscription tier to its app 3 months ago:
at least existing features and data remain free.
For now.
- Comment on How I’m Building a Trump-Proof Tech Stack Without Big Tech 3 months ago:
Have a look at european-alternatives.eu, www.privacytools.io and www.privacyguides.org/en/tools/
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 4 months ago:
On a related note. Why would creators add sponsored segments/other sponsoring/patreon etc if YT pays them enough?
spoiler
YT doesn’t pay them enough. Unless your some kind of super star.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 4 months ago:
Even youtube doesn’t pay the creators that much. Lois Rossman in a recent video showed some of his video in YT that had > 200k views generated ~100 $ of income.
- Comment on Those YouTube ads everyone hates made $10.4 billion in just three months 4 months ago:
Nebula pays creator, and you pay to Nebula.
- Comment on Freed At Last From Patents, Does Anyone Still Care About MP3? 4 months ago:
Even university students studying computer science don’t have this basic knowledge anymore.
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 5 months ago:
Grim Dawn with Reign Of Terror mod.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
In the EU this kind of automatic opting-in to marketing/data sharing is against the GDPR as it requires explicit consent from user/customer. I’m in the EU and have those settings but they were both toggled off, as expected.