MikeT

@MikeT@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube ads finally got me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Many people follow specific channels and only look at content from them, not random bullshit teenager videos that show up in the random/new/trending pages. If you only look at these contents, then yes, you’re going to get those bullshit annoying videos.

  It’s the same with Reddit, Lemmy, and others, people follow the specific channels they want and avoid the trending/random/new stuff.

  For an example, I follow Digital Foundry channel for their detailed analysis/reviews, The SciShow, Sorted Foods, and so on. I click my subscriptions on youtube and it only shows these high quality content for me. Our family spend hours on these contents. They’re not available anywhere else.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remedy says its Max Payne remakes are ‘a big, big project’ | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t know how to feel about this one.

  I would prefer Remedy expand their own IP and transit people into think about Alex Casey instead.

  They don’t own Max Payne, Rockstar does. They should buy it back instead of reworking this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would the internet be significantly faster if there wasn't so much farming of metadata / cookies?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It is not entirely data farming, a lot of this is due to use of heavy assets like fonts, frameworks, images, videos, etc. A lot of that is downloaded as part of loading the site initially and then the browser has to render/compute the site’s use of JavaScript, CSS, etc.

  Fonts and some JS assets are cached by the browsers and CDN to try to minimize redownloading it but it doesn’t change the fact that average websites today are much heavier than it was back in 90s.

  See how fast this site loads: text.npr.org

  Or tildes.net compared to Reddit.