johncandy1812
@johncandy1812@lemmy.ca
- Comment on US Government Deploys Elon Musk's Grok as Nutrition Bot, Where It Immediately Gives Advice for Rectal Use of Vegetables 1 day ago:
Elon is a nazi pedo.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 1 day ago:
More options in the videohosting space would good.
- Comment on YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it 1 day ago:
I realised a lot of my yt usage was for having something playing in the background. I’ve been listening to more podcasts and audiobooks instead and it’s been pretty easy to cut back.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 2 days ago:
The EU currently has stronger Anti-Trust laws than the North American countries so most a lot of what is public comes from their courts.
This wiki is a good start.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Antitrust_cases_against_Google…
The case with Mozilla is the most obvious in terms of funding direct competition to maintain the semblance of competition with Chrome. Google really dislike adblockers so they’ve been throwing their weight around with Mozilla and the HTML5 protocols (as best I understand it) to prevent people from using adblockers in the future.
One of the first instances that I can recall was when Google acquired Youtube. There were critics who worried about the lack of competition in video hosting. Google assured legislators that things were fine because they still had Google Video at the time. Controlling those two allowed them to dominate the video hosting space. Google video was eventually phased out, with hosting being diverted to Youtube.
IIRC Google were also throwing their weight around when it came to buying up portions of the wireless spectrum in NA. Again, to prevent other, smaller organizations from gaining a foothold in the mobile industry.
These are mostly off the top of my head from watching their practices over the last 20 years or so there may be corrections to this.
Sorry for not having more direct sources for you but I will continue looking for some and will update when I get a chance.
- Comment on Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software 3 days ago:
In a lot of cases (like Mozilla), they supported these efforts to legally maintain their monopoly over digital services.
Google is an ad company, they are using their size and influence to redesign the rules of the internet to ensure their presence can’t be bypassed or controlled by the end user.
They want all internet traffic to pass through them.
Burn Google to the ground I say.
- Comment on 'No One Should Have a Copyright on Vance Being Booed': Video From Olympics Blocked on X 1 week ago:
Stop using Musk’s products.
- Comment on The world is trying to log off U.S. tech 2 weeks ago:
More worried the US is spying on me than China at this point.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 2 weeks ago:
Even if the unions aren’t involved, this is a walkout/boycott, not a general strike.
There need to be actual demands before life returns to normal for the government to feel actual pressure.
- Comment on Grok floods X with sexualized images of women and children: Grok generated an estimated 3 million sexualized images, including 23,000 of children in 11 days 3 weeks ago:
Please stop using Musk’s products. He’s a Nazi.
- Comment on Grok’s ‘spicy’ video setting instantly made me Taylor Swift nude deepfakes 6 months ago:
Musk offered to father her children. This was probably done deliberately.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 6 months ago:
I don’t mean free from operating costs. I mean free for the person using it to experience it how they choose.
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 6 months ago:
Ads on websites are deals the sitemaker made with themselves. The internet is free.
- Comment on Trump Team Has Full Meltdown Over CNN Story on ICE-Tracking App 7 months ago:
How do they measure the difference between partial and full meltdowns?
- Comment on Tesla Reportedly Has $800 Million Worth of Cybertrucks That Nobody Wants 9 months ago:
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 10 months ago:
By my understanding, 4chan left themselves vulnerable which, given the circles they foster, means they going to be compromised. No fear of reprisal or consequence for it either. Not like when attacking a majot corporation or government.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 10 months ago:
Add “liberal” or even “critical of the president” to that.