Betazed

@Betazed@lemmy.sdf.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is essential to stop using Chrome. Under the pretense of saving users from third-party spyware, Google is creating an ecosystem in which Chrome itself is the spyware.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an iOS/iPadOS thing. Mac browsers can use any rendering engine they want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation To Delete A Ton Of TV Shows Users Already Paid For⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the unfortunate reality of current intellectual property. Anytime you don’t have a copy of something directly in your possession, either as a physical object like a BluRay, or digital file(s) on digital storage only you control, you don’t really own it. You’re just borrowing it, or more strictly speaking, you’re purchasing the right to access it until the agreement between the creator company (i.e., WarnerDiscovery) and the hosting company (i.e., Sony) expires.

  When issues like this come up, there are right ways and wrong ways to handle it. This is an example of a wrong way. Google’s handling of the Stadia shutdown was an example of the right way. Any game you purchased on Stadia was refunded to the original payment method, not store credit, at the price you paid giving you the ability to reacquire the game on another platform and/or in another medium. They even refunded in-game purchases of things like premium currency (e.g. silver in Destiny 2, or crowns in Elder Scrolls Online) which was a great bonus because you got that whether you had spent the in-game currency or not so it was essentially free.

  Personally, I’d like protection like what Google offered to be legally mandated for the purchase of streaming content. Sony has little choice in the matter if WarnerDiscovery won’t renew the streaming license. Legally, they must revoke access to the content, but currently they can choose to not compensate users who lose access to the content through these legal machinations and that’s what I have a problem with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah thinking about it more, you’re definitely right. I’ve only ever been a W-2 employee (United States) so I know nothing about this kind of thing. If they are employees of another company, they should bargain with them instead, and force them (via strike if required) to negotiate a new contract with Google. I’m very pro worker and support striking to get results but you have to make sure you’re targeting the right business to get the results you want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨please defederate from exploding-heads.com and rammy.site⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah I’d certainly like to know as well