GenosseFlosse
@GenosseFlosse@feddit.org
- Comment on YouTube tests removing viewer counts — here’s what we know 1 week ago:
Remove the user generated videos. only title, videoads and comments allowed.
- Comment on Disposable vapes to be banned in England and Wales from June 2 weeks ago:
Wow, I normally don’t think of England when it comes to countries who have their shit together!
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 5 weeks ago:
How to improve online advertising: Step 1: remove all online advertising
- Comment on Switzerland authorizes removable PV plant on railway track 5 weeks ago:
They will get dirty very fast, either from dirt thrown around by passing trains, or by the brake dust.
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 5 weeks ago:
I have yet to see an app that does something a website could not do…
- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know, I distrust all YouTube ads content creators slide into their videos, because the products are either useless to me, disappointing in real life like the “taste smells” water bottle or sketchy with some fear mongering like the VPNs.
- Comment on there's now more ads in "legit" sites (YouTube, amazon) than in piracy sites 5 weeks ago:
Fun fact: a lot of the content you see on big sites are advertorials, this means some company writes a fluff piece about how their lastest product can solve all your problems, and then pays the site to publish it. In print, you even have the option to have the ad use the same layout, fonts, colors etc. as the real content.
This means a portion of a site is not filled by content that had to be bought, but actually brings them money.
- Comment on oh shit 1 month ago:
Wow, he has to declare bankruptcy now!
- Comment on Musk’s plan to axe X's block button is a real win for stalkers and abusers. 1 month ago:
The delete account button is still there.
- Comment on Telegram CEO Pavel Durov Arrested in France 2 months ago:
It’s one of the most popular social media apps in Russia. I would bet they already have a backdoor for the Russian police…
- Comment on Trump promotes family's new crypto platform, 'The Defiant Ones' 2 months ago:
I wouldn’t get into crypto, but have you heard about this newfangled thing with the NFTs?
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 2 months ago:
Commercial displays are not tvs. Quite often the refresh rate is terrible and you cannot watch action movies on it, because it was designed to show static billboard ads.
- Comment on Your TV set has become a digital billboard. And it’s only getting worse. 2 months ago:
While I agree, I think this solution is some nonsense. I bought a “TV” and paid for all the hardware and software that went into it, but I essentially have to use it as a monitor with my own hardware to escape the enshittification.
- Comment on Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google 3 months ago:
Always has been. Technically the server sees no difference in what a browser does vs what a bot does: Downloading files and submitting requests.
- Comment on Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google 3 months ago:
I’m sure the reddit TOS you agreed to during signup says otherwise…
- Comment on Reddit blocking all major search engines, except Google 3 months ago:
Blocking bots is hard, because with some work they can be made to look like users, down to simulating curved mouse movements drom one button to the next if you are really ambitious.
- Comment on After Musk's pro-Trump/Vance bender, X users report issues following Kamala Harris' accounts 3 months ago:
They could both live on musk’s mars colony, the first rockets are set to start as early as 2018!
- Comment on OpenAI’s latest model will block the ‘ignore all previous instructions’ loophole 3 months ago:
Nope. You can run similar models locally that are good and fast enough for most tasks.