sandman
@sandman@lemmy.ca
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
Hmm, they may have changed it or I could be misremembering.
Desktop mode also allows you to play a video while your screen is off which is good for listening to music.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
Works just the same when video creators post to both and just keep promoting the YouTube one.
No it doesn’t.
Take your own advice.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
What? Nebula is a paid streaming service.
Peertube is free.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
Apple users love having control taken away from them so I never factor them in when giving tech-related advice.
- Comment on U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users 6 months ago:
The saddest thing is, the bad people are the ones who fight back (in their minds.)
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
Stockholm syndrome is a very scary condition.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
You can block ads on youtube on mobile devices by using firefox in desktop mode with ublock origin.
Fuck youtube. Fuck ads. Fuck useful idiots defending either.
- Comment on YouTube Tests Showing Ads When You Pause a Video, Calls it ''Pause Ads'' 6 months ago:
The competition for youtube is peertube, not another centralized platform.
It just needs content.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 6 months ago:
Power-tripping mods are the bane of the modern internet.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 6 months ago:
But unfortunately, it still is the best option for a modern day message board.
For small communities that don’t have a significant lemmy presence? Sure.
I’m never going back to a community that can remove news-related posts without a modlog. That’s just asking for censorship and abuse by bad actors.
- Comment on Drake threatened with lawsuit over diss track featuring AI Tupac 6 months ago:
Any publicity is good publicity.
These greedy businessmen know that.
- Comment on Baltimore County educator framed principal with AI-generated voice, police say 6 months ago:
Where’s the video?
- Comment on Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger 7 months ago:
It’s always okay to key a tesla.
- Comment on Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger 7 months ago:
It’s a cult. As with most capitalist cults, you’re only accepted if you spend money how they want you to.
- Comment on Tesla Owner Calls Police on Rivian Driver Using Supercharger 7 months ago:
Bro, I was so confused because a supercharger is an alternative to turbo for forced induction.
- Comment on Mozilla Pushes Feds to Embrace Truly Open, Transparent AI Models 7 months ago:
No it doesn’t.
And it also opens the door for training data to be obtained unethically
Ethics are subjective.
- Comment on Somebody managed to coax the Gab AI chatbot to reveal its prompt 7 months ago:
AI is just another tool of censorship and control.