VerPoilu
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- Comment on Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday 2 weeks ago:
Its not ok when it’s an American company, and America has a long way to go on this.
However, enforcement is impossible when China is the one controlling it. There is no limit to what they are allowed to do with the data.
China is banning any Chinese personal data from leaving the country because they are afraid we would handle the data the same way they do foreign data.
Race has nothing to do with it. Dictatorship does. It’s bad if any dictatorship or unfriendly country does it.
- Comment on Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday 2 weeks ago:
Bad precedent of banning widely popular apps that do data mining and influence and that are controlled by non friendly dictatorships? If VK was popular in the US, should it get banned, or should we just let it do its things?
- Comment on Supreme Court backs TikTok ban: App set to shut down Sunday 2 weeks ago:
You’re getting downvoted but you’re right.
Giving so much information and influencial power to a dictatorship is crazy. China is not a friendly country, they are on the brink of a war with Taiwan, they commit genocides, and have the power to rewrite history.
Sure, Musk and Zuckerberg also influence elections, but at least they’re under American law. TikTok is not just “some” Chinese company. It is controlled by China.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 4 weeks ago:
Thank you.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 4 weeks ago:
Difficult to prove the latter of course, but out of the two, it’s not what most people seem to be complaining the most about.
You’d need the first one to get big enough to pull up the second one anyways.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 4 weeks ago:
That would arguably be even worst.
- Comment on LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey 4 weeks ago:
I’m struggling to understand how everyone thought Honey made money. I have assumed from the first time I saw an ad for them that this is how they operate. It’s not like it’s difficult to prove or disprove either.
- Comment on This is a simple and satisfying way to fight Trump and Musk | It's time to delete X 2 months ago:
Don’t just “delete” Twitter as in deleting the app. Please also close your account.
- Comment on Opera explains how it plans to keep uBlock Origin support as Google Chrome disables it 3 months ago:
It works on Android, but I don’t believe it works on iOS.
- Comment on Guess a daily word with only clues as to its position in the alphabet to guide you 3 months ago:
🧩 Puzzle #437 🤔 18 guesses ⏱️ 6m 20s
- Comment on Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube 4 months ago:
For that they use iframes, which have a different security system.
- Comment on Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube 4 months ago:
Because of the CORS settings on Google’s servers would tell your browser to not go forward with the request. There are two ways it could eventually be possible:
- By opening the video in a new page/tab that only contains the video, with the YouTube player, which defeats the purpose a bit.
- By installing an addon or an app on your device.
- Comment on Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube 4 months ago:
That’s interesting. I assume this only applies to the mobile client. On the web, it would not be possible. You can verify by looking at the outgoing network requests on this random video for example: invidious.privacyredirect.com/watch?v=qKMcKQCQxxI
- Comment on Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube 4 months ago:
I’m pretty confident that you are wrong.
- Comment on Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube 4 months ago:
Invidious and YouTube piped (and LibreTube) by default load the videos server-side, as opposed to GrayJay, NewPipe or Smarttube.
It has advantages (mostly that your IP address is not shared with YouTube, and it allows users from countries where YouTube is blocked to still access it) and inconvenients (much harder to keep up when YouTube actively seeks to block them).