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- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 8 hours ago:
I’m pretty sure they were sarcastic.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 15 hours ago:
Good point, but the result is still the same - people defect away from the “modern” product instead of complying and buying a new machine.
Anecdotally, I’ve recently helped friends and family (a sample size of about 4 people now) to set up either windows LTSC or Linux mint on their machines as they are uninterested in replacing their computers.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 day ago:
Damn. Hopefully some capture mechanism will exist so piracy sites can still reupload a backup.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 day ago:
Users replacing their devices isn’t feasible in many parts of the world, especially outside of the west.
You are correct that a service similar in scale and scope would not appear out of the aether due to the cost, but to say nothing would make a grab for those underserved users would be foolish.
Again - the entry level cost conscious users do constitute a large part of Youtube’s userbase, so even if they are burdensome to support (due to ad blocking rates, required legacy features to upkeep, and so on), they are a core part of the audience that youtube serves. In an economic environment where people cannot afford to abandon their hardware, there is no chance they will opt out of receiving information and entertainment entirely because of their devices being unsupported by google’s sites. They will move to the next service in the chain, either existing or new. To google’s investors, that shrinkage in userbase may be untenable.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 day ago:
ATSC 3 ?
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 day ago:
That would be their poison pill. Youtube’s advantage is in it’s ubiquity. Lose that, you lose countless users.
- Comment on Google just broke *all* third-party web clients, including yt-dlp; a full JS implementation is now required. 1 day ago:
Well the problem for google is that Youtube MUST be accessible to almost any internet user in the world - that’s a key reason why it’s so ubiquitous.
The reason this cat and mouse game has lasted as long as it has in the first place is because any method that is currently being quashed has a solution lying in another user agent that youtube can’t kill.
If one day YT sets a “minimum requirements” page on their website to access their content, they’ve immediately ceded market share to the next upstart. Imagine if they broke viewing for all of the countless cheap (and e-waste) phones, tablets, low end IOT devices, “smart TVs”, and so on because they place a requirement that the device cannot meet. Those users will not throw away their hardware - they’ll migrate to the first available alternative way to watch content.
As long as YT caters to the lowest common denominator (Their business model essentially binds them to do so), there will always be a software/hardware environment that these tools can spoof. The moment that stops being the case, people look for other options.
A similar analogy would be how Microsoft handled the windows 11 requirements - the strict requirements locking out years upon years of hardware has resulted in a substantial amount of users finding workarounds for their machines (like windows 10 IOT LTSC), or to even jump to linux entirely. They abandoned the entry level users, so entry level users are abandoning them.
- Comment on Apple iPhone 17 Devices Plagued by Wi-Fi Connectivity Issues 1 day ago:
Congratulations, you described Apple’s PR department.
- Comment on Sailing the high seas 3 days ago:
Wait, do Australians greet each other by saying “Aye, Matey!”?
- Comment on Sniffing out danger: Electronic nose capable of detecting explosives, narcotics, dangerous chemicals and more. 4 days ago:
Tangent fun fact: after the reunification of west and east Germany, the patrol dogs for the east German wall were put up for adoption, and found loving homes :)
- Comment on 5 days ago:
A VPN is cheaper and multi-purpose! :)
- Comment on 5 days ago:
“The site that shall not be named”
… Do you have the slightest idea how little that narrows it down?
- Comment on Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think 6 days ago:
Usually it refers to joystick directions being reversed (common for flight simulators) or the “Southpaw” control methods on console controllers (designed for lefty users).
- Comment on Vi undrar, är ni redo att vara med? 1 week ago:
I like your funny words, lemming!
- Comment on Get ready to see ads on your… Samsung refrigerator 1 week ago:
Valve, fortunately, has already codified a ban on advertisement in games and on the steam platform itself (The store page is curated by an algorithm fetching popular or game genres desired by the player rather than advertisers) partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/advertising
- Comment on China Is Putting Data Centers in the Ocean to Keep Them Cool 1 week ago:
Rain World (2017)
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 1 week ago:
Even so, the steam hardware survey seems to indicate that the vast majority of users wouldn’t reach specs to enable developer-approved framegen anyway. (Unless you count Lossless Scaling).
We’re kind of going full circle back to the paradigm of “You are judged on your entry level as much (or more) than your high end [gameplay performance]”.
- Comment on What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025? 1 week ago:
The RIF/Apollo to Voyager pipeline is real
- Comment on Greenland Sharks 1 week ago:
Me, inside a retirement home in ~60 years letting visitors playing on a retro emulation setup and challenging them to 1v1s in fighting games:
- Comment on Friends are a bloatware. 1 week ago:
I mean, I have similar feelings about Valve, but I continue using the product because I know the most crucial and important contributions to the software space (Proton and OpenXR for Valve, Signal’s Client and non-spam-removal server code) has already had source provided to the public, meaning anyone could hard fork and pick up the torch if the current champion falters.
If a company is publicly traded on the stock market, hasn’t provided source to safeguard against uncertain leadership, and is integral to your software setup, your dependence on them needs to be scrutinized.
On the other end of the spectrum, if transparency is maintained, even with the inevitable entropy leading to enshittification, their contributions will be preserved and reused. That is the brilliance of providing source of your software.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 1 week ago:
I think the latter is more likely. The former will only occur once MS is compelled by something that will force them into support mode, like a government or a lawsuit.
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 1 week ago:
Yeah, I’m thinking from Sam’s perspective of his gravy train. Betting on Microsoft’s benevolence is a mistake.
- Comment on Microsoft ends OpenAI exclusivity in Office, adds rival Anthropic 1 week ago:
Microsoft has no allies, only investments and expendable subsidiaries.
Guess no one told Altman.
- Comment on Just in time for rainy season 1 week ago:
Hey, who chopped down the Froggy boots?
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 2 weeks ago:
When you buy one of their games on steam (In my case, Don’t Starve), they come with a “CD Key” included which you can plug into their website to download your DRM-free copy. Alternatively if you buy it from GOG you just have a DRM-free copy out the gate.
- Comment on Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming 2 weeks ago:
Drink up me hearties yo ho!
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 2 weeks ago:
Helps that steam’s DRM is piss-easy to crack, and good indie devs give you DRM-free redeemable copies if you show a proof of purchase (Klei my beloved)
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 2 weeks ago:
Well hey old man, go to bandcamp and pay a quarter or an eighth of the price of that frisbee to get lossless audio files that you can download and backup to your heart’s content.
Spotify was always for chumps.
- Comment on It's Not Just You: Music Streaming Is Broken Now 2 weeks ago:
My GOG games aren’t, my Steam library’s still chugging along after 11 years, my Linux installs haven’t failed or started spying on me and my offline, modular 3d printer still works.
It’s all about understanding what you’re buying and what’s the incentives for those on the other end. We shouldn’t have to think about that all the time, but on the bright side there are cool things happening outside of enshittification by publicly traded corpos.
- Comment on Russia’s Enteromix cancer vaccine shows promise in early trials 2 weeks ago:
If the world diversifies locations for medical research sites, that can only be a good thing for humanity as a whole.