Copernican
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- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 2 months ago:
YouTube wants you to keep watching the videos. The more time you spend on the site the more ads you see. They care about finding the balance of acceptable ad load to maximize ad space, which requires a consistent user base.
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 2 months ago:
It’s the opposite. If you pause the ad you the viewer are almost always looking at the screen. The pause button on a mobile phone or web browser is literally on the player. You are guaranteed to see it immediately after you push the button. You will see it when you in pause. These ads are display banners not video.
Unlike video ads that just auto play, especially when the video player auto plays more videos, there probably is more probability you aren’t actually watching, unlike pause ads that require user activity and focus on the screen to push the pause button.
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 2 months ago:
Look at the article linked to it. It has a render of a pause ad being a banner that shrinks the video player somewhat, but the paused video is viewable.
- Comment on YouTube confirms your pause screen is now fair game for ads 2 months ago:
I doubt they are video ads. On other streaming services they are just static images with transparent backgrounds displayed on one third of the screen. Pause ads aren’t new and I’m guessing YouTube is following other streaming services.
- Comment on Dagger Directive Brings The Old School Tactical Shooter Style In Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
But can’t you do that with a scope over the iron site that is not full screen and not blurring the peripheral around the scope on the center?
- Comment on Dagger Directive Brings The Old School Tactical Shooter Style In Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
The picture in picture scope is a weird design choice. I remember old delta force games, after moving on to rainbow six, ghost recon, or operation flashpoint, not sure why you would go back to that for scopes…
- Comment on Microsoft Says Bye-Bye DEI, Joins Growing List Of Corporations Dismantling Diversity Teams 3 months ago:
Yeah. I never understood why DEI required a discreet team. It seems like it should just be a function, commitment, and initiative of HR.
- Comment on HP forced to ditch popular printer range following user backlash 4 months ago:
The kind of people that can’t use an always online connected printer. But seriously, for some professions and shift to work from home during covid kind of made printers in a home more common again.
- Comment on Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more 4 months ago:
Yeah, that was disappointing. But I do think it was a tough situation. Sanders wasn’t a Dem, he was an independent. I think Warren as an established D could have had more pull and commanded more from the establishment side. Unfortunately she picked party over platform.
- Comment on Supreme Court weakens federal regulators with Chevron overturning, threatening net neutrality, right to repair, big tech regulation, and more 4 months ago:
Bernie was such a good surprise candidate, but that only happened because Warren didnt run. I wish she did. I think that was her time and would have avoided some of the criticisms (whether fair or unfairly thrown) at Bernie.
- Comment on Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle 6 months ago:
Say what you will about streaming, but I think everyone born before 1995 will understand that todays streaming is way way way better than renting and old school cable. In the old days there was no on demand, so you could only watch what was on at the time you wanted to watch it. You literally had to go to to block buster to rent physical media that wasn’t always available for things like new releases. TV shows weren’t easily available by VHS/DVD. So with streaming, it’s basically cheaper than what Cable + Renting movies used to cost, but I can do it without limits of physical media and have access to crazy amounts of back catalog. I purchased Band of Brothers back in the day on DVD box set for like 70 bucks which is 10 1 hour long episodes. For 99 bucks a year I can get all of band of brothers and a lot more content than that. Sure I don’t own it all, but that’s fine for most of my purposes.
- Comment on Comcast Unveils Peacock, Netflix, Apple TV+ Streaming Bundle 6 months ago:
I don’t think you understand how pricing works. Someone like Disney demands a high carriage fee agreement and mandates that ESPN must be in the basic cable package for all comcast subscribers, otherwise comcast doesn’t get any Disney owned TV. As a result Comcast has to charge basically 10 bucks a month to all subscribers to have ESPN, not counting the general cost breakout. Sure, comcast leases STB’s for X dollars and gets a cut of the subscription fees as well, but the point is the people that make the TV programming are the same. So it’s not magically going to make the cost of TV significantly cheaper by cutting out comcast. Comcast is the person that collects the bills, but Disney, ViacomCBS, etc, are very much involved of setting up the prices consumers pay on cable and streaming.
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- Comment on [Ahoy] What genre is DOOM? 6 months ago:
Doom was a top down 2d shooter that just happened to be rendered in first person 3d.
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 7 months ago:
Hehe. Yeah. I dont need my ubiiquiti dream router categorizing how many gigs of porn hub gets into my home based on IP.
- Comment on VPN by Google One is shutting down for good 7 months ago:
It’s cheap and easy for me to use it while traveling around and going on god knows what public wifi network. I am not using google VPN for privacy, but using it for some sense of security out of my home. Already paying for Google One storage, so this was a nice perk.
- Comment on How do I block all meme communities on lemmy? 8 months ago:
Default to subscribed communities views.
- Comment on [deleted] 8 months ago:
The U.S. lawmakers say ByteDance may be using the app to collect data on Americans and pass it on to the Chinese government. The app’s algorithms also are capable of influencing public opinion in the United States, where the platform has about 150 million users
That’s not a selling data concern.
- Comment on Schools in America apparently have their own army recruiter 8 months ago:
I had a very anti-war sociology professor that had been protesting since vietnam. Despite his qualms with military industrial complex, he would always say that the the military is the last vestige of upward mobility in the united states as it’s one of the few places where you can enter a playing field that is somewhat leveled for new entries, have merit impact your growth, and get access things like subsidized education. Sure there’s still racism, sexism, etc. but in terms of economic mobility it provides a decent ladder.
- Comment on Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO 8 months ago:
I understand. But I think from the get go of the announcement of closing the API’s, Reddit had always discussed not wanting to be harvested by AI tech for free. The point is they saw the value of their user content, and wanted to establish a model to profit on that. This announcement is just that; they now have something in market to allow AI to be trained on it’s user generated content.
- Comment on Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO 8 months ago:
- Comment on Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO 8 months ago:
- Comment on Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO 8 months ago:
- Comment on Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO 8 months ago:
Reddit Wants to Get Paid for Helping to Teach Big A.I. Systems - www.nytimes.com/…/reddit-ai-openai-google.html
- Comment on Reddit Signs AI Content Licensing Deal Ahead of IPO 8 months ago:
They were transparent about it. AI and gatekeeping the user generated comments was the deciding factor to close the API and that’s what they told the public.
- Comment on DOJ quietly removed Russian malware from routers in US homes and businesses 8 months ago:
I was running an edge router x until a few months ago. It was the cheapest set up to deploy a unifi wireless access point for my apartment. I was worried until I read:
It affected routers running Ubiquiti’s EdgeOS, but only those that had not changed their default administrative password. Access to the routers allowed the hacking group to “conceal and otherwise enable a variety of crimes,” the DOJ claims, including spearphishing and credential harvesting in the US and abroad.
Change you default passwords friends. Given that the edge router is not the most noob friendly device to set up, I’m curious how the user base of these devices is not changing the PW.
- Comment on Data company sold visitor location data for 600 abortion clinics to pro-life group, senator says 9 months ago:
You don’t need cookies for this kind of targeting…
- Comment on Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered has a warning about racial and ethnic stereotypes 9 months ago:
But when will Nintendo start issuing those warnings for Mario games?
- Comment on Boeing flags potential delays after supplier finds another problem with some 737 fuselages 9 months ago:
What exactly is the relationship between spirit aero systems and Boeing? Who owns which responsibilities between these types of fuck ups? Is it Boeing design? Spirit manufacturing? Boeing inspection? The buck stops with Boeing, but since they deliver the final product, but wtf is going on at Spirit.
- Comment on Commercials Are Streaming’s New Norm, and Creators Aren’t Happy: “It’s Almost Worse Than Broadcast” 9 months ago:
You were talking about the streaming platform specifically.
>It’s an industry that’s earning literal billions every single year…they absolutely don’t need to have ads, they could serve their paying users a good ad-free product, and still make money. They choose to deliberately annoy their paying customers because they’re fucking greedy.
It’s okay to be corrected.