boywar3
@boywar3@lemmy.world
- Comment on ‘Not a Thing That Comes to Mind’: Harris Says She Wouldn’t Do Anything Differently from Biden over Past Four Years | National Review 4 weeks ago:
No need to keep making her look any better - she’s already got my vote! 😎
- Comment on Preference 1 month ago:
There’s a tamper-proof seal on the bottle
- Comment on Olympian Obscenity 3 months ago:
Another day, another conservative yelling at clouds lmfao
Maybe one day they’ll realize change is inevitable
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
The effort/cost expended to go after a tiny group of people vs the amount of money generated/saved from stopping them was (and probably still is) not worth it. There just aren’t that many people who use 3rd party services without accounts.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
There is still a footprint of “person is watching X, then they go to Y” with or without an account by my understanding.
Its less valuable data, sure, but it all feeds thr algorithm
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
Again, the point is that those accounts are still users that can be pointed out as such for all to see. Remember: a youtube account is just a Google account.
One could argue that youtube is a highly effective loss leader - people get into the Google ecosystem because of making an account to subscribe to their favorite content creators. Now Google has data they can sell, and metrics for advertisers to go “I see 18-30 year old white guys who watch things about X are likely to respond positively to things about Y.” The algorithm, even without advertisements, is constantly building a profile of every user.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
It still goes to active user counts though. There will still be a footprint left by any view and that can be marketed as “we have X million users daily!”
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
They are still a metric they can peddle to their advertisers to show “how many people see this ad in a month.”
- Comment on Meta removes Trump account restrictions ahead of 2024 election 3 months ago:
Hoosier here…yuuuup
The pockets of blue are growing a little bit in some of the more affluent areas just outside of Indianapolis like Carmel (or, at least, it’s more purple than it was 20 years ago).
I’m hoping as remote work continues to grow, people move here to change the place because of how cheap it is - even in like the heart of Indianapolis lol
- Comment on People left seriously creeped out after woman shares how to find out everything Google knows about you 6 months ago:
Same lol
Between that and the random shit it has listed as what I get ads for…it isn’t a whole lot. I spend most of time looking up highly specific things on Wikipedia or out of immediate utility, so I suppose I’m just not that interesting…also ublock origin ftw
- Comment on After promising free DLC forever to some players, Escape from Tarkov locks a new PvE mode behind $250 edition 6 months ago:
I got EoD edition back in like 2017 and played it for a fair bit, but I’ve maintained for years that BSG is a shit company and the best possible thing to happen is for a new game that is very similar to come out and gut their playerbase.
Tons of people called me an idiot back when I said this in like 2020, so it’s good to see at least some level of pushback - now we just need that replacement game and BSG is screwed (especially since they still do wipes, meaning there is less sunk-cost fallacy to keep people around).
- Comment on Radicalized Students Will Regret Backing Hamas 6 months ago:
This is obviously just bait lol
That said, the comments on that site are pretty funny.
My favorite is the dude crying about how the Arabs stole Israel from the Jews whereas the Jews got it from God. Like, did he not read the Bible? What happened to the Canaanites???
Good times…
- Comment on Seattle dance squad says they were told American flag shirts made audience members feel 'triggered and unsafe' 6 months ago:
Assuming this article is even true, which is dubious, it’s a complete nothingburger, lol
It’s just more pathetic culture war bullshit because conservatives keep racking up Ls and have little to show the American people. It’s so much easier to screech about “wokes and immigrants are destroying this nation” than to actually attempt to fix the problems that matter, like climate change, the economy, and our aging infrastructure (of course, this is also due to he Republicans being bought and paid for by business interests that want to undermine fixing these issues).
Any time I see some nutjob republican make some big sweeping “anti-woke” legislation, I stop and ask myself: “How does this help the average American in ways that actually matter to them?” Usually, the answer is,“it doesn’t.”
- Comment on Trump Calls For Return To ‘Law And Order’ At Wake For Slain NY Police Officer 7 months ago:
Anyone else like that the dude who posted this shit’s name is from a genre that openly shows the flaws in capitalism’s race to the bottom?
Is like being hit in the face and still not getting the message lol
- Comment on "A Journey Through Another World: Raising Kids While Adventuring" New Key Visual 8 months ago:
Is this another instance of Shinzo Abe begging his citizens to have kids from beyond the grave?
- Comment on Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome 8 months ago:
Meanwhile, I’m over here unable to find an IT job :')
- Comment on Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED 8 months ago:
Ah gotcha
- Comment on Why It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED 8 months ago:
You thinking of Vanced? Revanced is updated pretty regularly
- Comment on MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis 8 months ago:
Oh yeah, now it’s all pretty standardized with like the same screws for everything.
Its no longer quite as silly with the specific steps to follow, but god, is it boring as all hell to work with too lol
- Comment on MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis 8 months ago:
I worked on mostly Chromebook repairs for 6 months last year, and I found it to be pretty straightforward as well from a hardware standpoint…especially when there was no point in doing most repairs because it would cost more than just getting a new one.
For any OS issues, we’d simply take a flash drive and reinstall it from scratch. It’s definitely gotten easier, but holy crap could it be slow as hell lol
- Comment on YSK: Indeed and other job sites are saturated with scams 9 months ago:
Between that and how poor the search function is. “IT Support” shouldn’t be bringing up car mechanic jobs…
- Comment on YSK: Indeed and other job sites are saturated with scams 9 months ago:
Yup. Between all the time checking for legitimacy and evaluating the company, it’s a huge pain in the ass to look for jobs all day…and even when you find one you enter the same information over and over because autofill from resume doesn’t work…