ElectroNeutrino
@ElectroNeutrino@lemmy.world
- Comment on Hackers steal NFTs worth millions. In other news, NFTs worth millions. 11 months ago:
Good and services are still primarily purchased with fiat in most of the world. You need to be able to actually use it for it to be useful, so whether or not blockchain is theoretically better doesn’t matter there if there isn’t wide enough adoption.
- Comment on Epic win: Jury decides Google has illegal monopoly in app store fight 11 months ago:
I wonder how that’s going to play out with Apple and their monopoly.
- Comment on Google admits it's making YouTube worse for ad block users 11 months ago:
To be fair, what they want is to make money off of you, be it through metadata or through advertising. It’s just that sending you videos happens to be the model which they use to get the metadata or advertising income.
- Comment on YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button 11 months ago:
Because you aren’t an individual to them, you’re a statistic providing them with valuable market research on how their service is used.
“People that watch this collection of video classifications are more likely to watch videos who’s thumbnails have these characteristics. Only 1% of them use ad blocking so we can improve our ad presentation rate if we present more videos with these thumbnails to this group.”
- Comment on YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button 11 months ago:
Yes and no. Metadata is more than just tracking info. I did mention watch history, likes, and mouse position, which are not things that can really be blocked. This also includes things such as how likely you are to click on a video based on thumbnail and screen position, how long you watch specific videos as well as how long your overall watch train is. All in all, how you actually use the service is something that they pay very close attention to, and is still very valuable.
- Comment on YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button 11 months ago:
Your metadata is still extremely valuable to them, and it’s not limited to just watch history and likes, but rather everything on how you engage in their services, including where your mouse cursor sits.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
And Musk has already initiated a lawsuit against those who have shone a light on it.
- Comment on [deleted] 11 months ago:
Not using it helps do that.
- Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users 11 months ago:
I’ve seen more than one hour long ad. It let you skip after 5 seconds, but imagine if someone were leaving it on as background.
- Comment on Advertiser exodus expected to deeply impact X ad revenue, analysis indicates 11 months ago:
Just like every other conservative social network cough Truth Social cough.
- Comment on Google sues people who “weaponized” DMCA to remove rivals’ search results 1 year ago:
Unless it’s themselves making it less reliable to push more ads.
- Comment on Is gravity instantaneous? 1 year ago:
To add onto the pedantry, it’s only changes in gravity which propagate at the speed of light. A static gravitational field doesn’t need to propagate.
- Comment on Mullvad's public encrypted DNS Servers run in RAM now 1 year ago:
It’s a variation of a cold boot attack. Instead of forcing an OS crash and rebooting into an OS connected to a portable drive, you cool the memory to extend the time until the data degrades and can then do whatever you want with it. I believe you can extend it up to a week.
- Comment on Mullvad's public encrypted DNS Servers run in RAM now 1 year ago:
Harder, yes, but still good to note not impossible. There’s some cryogenic techniques that allow them to preserve what’s on the RAM long enough to read it.
- Comment on First live birth of a #chimeric monkey using embryonic stem cell lines 1 year ago:
Ed… Ward…
- Comment on College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down 1 year ago:
So pump n dump has more than one meaning here.
- Comment on Unredacted FTC suit shows 'Project Nessie' price-raising algorithm made Amazon $1.4B 1 year ago:
And yet, they are the ones accusing Amazon of price fixing.
Like I said. go tell them that they got it wrong.
- Comment on Unredacted FTC suit shows 'Project Nessie' price-raising algorithm made Amazon $1.4B 1 year ago:
Go ahead and tell the FTC that you know the law better than they.
- Comment on Unredacted FTC suit shows 'Project Nessie' price-raising algorithm made Amazon $1.4B 1 year ago:
Yes, which is the price-fixing I was talking about. There doesn’t need to be an overt agreement to fall under price fixing.
- Comment on Unredacted FTC suit shows 'Project Nessie' price-raising algorithm made Amazon $1.4B 1 year ago:
Which is exactly what was described.
- Comment on Unredacted FTC suit shows 'Project Nessie' price-raising algorithm made Amazon $1.4B 1 year ago:
Price fixing, whether explicit or implied from conduct, is absolutely something anti-trust regulations were designed to prevent.
- Comment on Do you feel, as I do, that this adblocker ban by Youtube will harm all of Alphabet's companies? [discussion] 1 year ago:
I think it’s less to do with the fact that ads exist, and more to do with how intrusive they are. Early YouTube ads were pretty tame compared to the ones today, especially when it was just banner ads.
- Comment on T-Mobile Walks Back Forced Plan Migration, Won't Make People Switch Plans After All 1 year ago:
- Wait until the new cycle rolls over and implement a similar plan anyway.
- Comment on Did youtube give in already? 1 year ago:
If the publicity around this action causes more people to move in the direction of using addblockers it could be really counter productive for youtube.
That all depends on if the revenue loss from an increase in ablocker use is more than the revenue gain from people either disabling advlockers or purchasing a plan.
- Comment on Microsoft fixes the Excel feature that was wrecking scientific data 1 year ago:
How about just not auto-convert everything and keep the integrity of the data unless specifically asked to? Is that so hard?
- Comment on youtube getting more agressive 1 year ago:
My metadata does more than enough to pay for it.
- Comment on Metals from space junk are polluting Earth's upper atmosphere 1 year ago:
But the composition is not the same as space dust, and could have a negative impact on the chemistry of the upper atmosphere.
- Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers. 1 year ago:
Ads aren’t the only form of revenue for them, and historically, YouTube has been run at a loss for years.
- Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers. 1 year ago:
I’m sure they’ll try to implement some type of DRM BS into the web
Funny you say that:
- Comment on YouTube cracking on ad blockers. 1 year ago:
You and the other person’s misrepresentation of the reason people are complaining about this are little more than complaining about other people complaining.