kumatomic
@kumatomic@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on Own a Roku TV or streaming device? You're about to see a lot more ads on your home screen 9 months ago:
They’ve gotten great at this war of attrition. They know if they make changes incrementally people wouldn’t accept all at once then most people won’t notice or care. That’s why I through that trash and two firesshits out in the garbage where they belonged when they started with “related” ads and app store ads.
- Comment on Six Months Ago NPR Left Twitter. The Effects Have Been Negligible 11 months ago:
I can’t help but wonder if most other news organizations’ corporate owners wouldn’t want to legitimize the fediverse in anyway. It might loosen their deathgrip on the internet .
- Comment on YouTube Says New 5-Second Video Load Delay Is Supposed to Punish Ad Blockers, Not Firefox Users 11 months ago:
The degree in which corporations engage in psychological warfare against customers is astounding. Not surprising, just outrageous. Don’t want notifications on? We’re going to ask you to turn on notifications in the the program every single day until you do it. Don’t want to watch ads because our infinite greed has destroyed what used to be a good platform with a reasonable number of ads before we bought it? Then we’ll make the experience less pleasant until you comply. They already make multiple parts of YouTube disagree with ad blockers on purpose to break the sites features. Not that I use anything other than NewPipe and Piped anymore anyway. I’m just sick of shitty corporations acting like we’re children who can be punished.
- Comment on If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. 1 year ago:
They also make a great deal of money using people’s user data to match them to pages that pay to promote and have their page shown to more people. It’s 14 bucks to have a single post “boosted” for a page otherwise your posts will be held at the bottom of the algorithm.
- Comment on If you live in the EU - you may also be faced with this Meta prompt. Info in text. 1 year ago:
I took a five year break for this reason. As I embraced being an artist it seemed the only way to know what is going on locally in my stupid medium-sized Texas town is Facebook. Even local government news was only on Facebook. So if I wanted to find calls for art locally to submit for galleries then I had to join. Luckily with two fences and uBlock Origin the only information they get is by logging any text I put in. It’s a lot of work to try to maintain my privacy though and no official app ever. I use a couple container apps from F-Droid, but they barely work most of the time so it mostly has to be on Desktop. I’ve tried to get a few friends to switch to federated apps and they look at me the same way. Even my partner’s casino job requires a Facebook account because if you want someone to take a shift for you it’s the only way. Also any company news. It should be regulated as a utility.
- Comment on Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM 1 year ago:
Usually I tell them I have a right to privacy and I won’t be using their product and that they need to delete my account and my data.
- Comment on Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM 1 year ago:
They already have. I can barely go to a mobile page that isn’t broken or doesn’t have a pop up I must dismiss telling me it’s better in the app when it most certainly is not. Some things I use have let their desktop web pages go into disrepair and when I contact them with my issues logging in they just tell me to use the app and that their site has been down for months. Gotta force that tracking and those arbitration clauses somehow.
- Comment on Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank - ‘You won’t need a bank account... it would blow my mind if we don’t have that rolled out by the end of next year.’ 1 year ago:
Finally a place I trust less with my finances than Redneck Bank
- Comment on Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble 1 year ago:
They’ve blocked my review on a shower chair that was absolutely not rated for what they said. I nearly fell on my butt and my skinnier partner said it was too wobbly. They’ve blocked the negative review 5 times saying I questioned the authenticity of the product and they have confirmed it. I knew it was Medline brand. I’ve had to file a FTC complaint which I expect to be worthless.
- Comment on Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble 1 year ago:
I agree and I worry about what options they’ll remove from about:config next to make room for or force the acceptance of new features like they have a habit of doing.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
Thank you and I hope you find the cause of your memory loss.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge could use a win 1 year ago:
You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
Broadly, Idiopathic inflammatory-demyelinating disease, along with childhood head trauma that left me with things like aphasia and visual snow, and the effects of long term chronic pain from severe rheumatoid arthritis. CPTSD plays a role as well.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
I bought this one, but it’s easier if you can find an older one that doesn’t have encrypted firmware as mentioned in this evil dirty guide I totally don’t recommend :) forum.makemkv.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=…
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
People around me don’t understand why I spent 4 hours learning which UHD drive to buy and how to flash it to take back MY media.
- Comment on Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. 1 year ago:
It’s funny you say that because I have some neurological conditions that give me memory issues and about every 3 years sometimes shows are almost new to me. I might remember some moments, but a lot of it is just gone. I rewatch Stargate SG1, all 10 seasons like it’s almost new every three years and it’s really the silver lining to a crappy problem.
- Comment on Elon Musk Stormed Into the Tesla Office Furious That Autopilot Tried to Kill Him 1 year ago:
I remember how much better things were when nobody knew who this jerk was.