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Yeah DDG has been serving up AI slop lately, it’s really annoying.

Ducky see, ducky do. It’s kind of pathetic…

How much do you bet certain parts of the Epstein file will be redacted?

Because alternative clients offer features that only the for-pay official client offers, like subscriptions and playlists, and Google can’t collect data on what people subscribe to or their playlists because in alternative clients, they’re stored locally.

Google doesn’t hate third-party clients because it skips ads: it hates them because it impedes surveillance and privacy invasion, which is the true bread and butter of Google.

Google clearly has the ability to break any and all third party client at any time.

My theory is that they’re conducting random campaigns of working-but-not-all-the-time on this or that client at different times to grind everybody down and force them to comply through shear exhaustion. Because if they banned all 3rd party client outright, it would negatively impact the antitrust case against them.

Markup applies to titles in Lemmy. But be aware that titles are displayed raw above comments so don’t go too crazy with it, so your titles display okay raw too 🙂

Personally, if I can’t watch Youtube in third party clients - which happens regularly courtesy of Google - then I don’t watch Youtube at all. The official clients are simply too painful - not to mention, a privacy-invading nightmare.

All the invidious instances I’ve tried either don’t work or their API is disabled - Sorry I didn’t see “through your browser”.

Not all invidious instances work. A lot of them have been hit by Youtube. But NewPipe still works - until it gets targeted too I guess. It’s a game of cat and mouse with Google - and it’s fucking tiring.

Yeah but China ain’t a democracy and Apple has their stuff manufactured in China. So you’d expect them to bend over backward to comply there.

The UK on the other hand is nominally a democracy, and Apple has no vital need to keep the UK powers that be happy. Apple could very well decide to tell them to pound sand and pull out of the country for the sake of principles, and I guarantee you the UK would quickly back down.

If Apple hadn’t complied in the UK, they would have lost a bit of profits for a while, but gained a ton of good will and credibility. They chose profits. Because corporation.

Incidentally, this whole thing should tell you how much of a democracy the UK really is.

What I’m saying is, the best way to ensure Google doesn’t leak your email address is to not provide your email address to Google.

No email address should be necessary to watch Youtube videos. The only reason Google wants your details is to track your watching habits more easily.

Another argument in favor of not sharing any information with Big Data companies when you can help it: when they don’t abuse it themselves, they mishandle it.

lol

My neighbor has a smart TV and it keeps bitching and moaning when it’s not connected to the internet.

It’s a store in Sweden where I reside 6 months per year, and the brand is Finlux.

It’s exactly what I got: it has the telltale PCMCIA connector on the side and a store mode in the menu.

but the old man at the dog park who only watches fox news isnt inherently evil

I’m sorry but no.

You have the die-hard racist MAGAs with the flags and the red cap. Those can fuck right off obviously.

But you also have all the ordinary folks who are NOT die-hard MAGA, but who decided that it was okay to vote for a convicted felon who tried to overthrow the government. And guess what: in a sense, they’re even worse.

Voting for Trump is crossing a line. If you voted for Trump, I really don’t want anything to do with you because you have proved to me that your sense of morality and your respect for the institutions of this country are compromised.

I do yes - VPN. I won’t next month though.

if you disavow every company contributing to the republican party/trump you might as well sell all your belongs, and learn to live off grid. no internet access, no power, no retail.

As much as possible, I will take my business to companies that aren’t openly terrible.

we just dont live in a black and white world

Tell that to the orange utan. He sure is about to turn the word from RGB to 1-pixel color space.

Do you really think I want to split people into people I can talk to vs. people I want to avoid at all costs? Trump is doing that. He’s forcing shitty choices on everybody. I’d rather have constructive and peaceful interaction with my fellow man. But can you honestly shake hands with a magard and not feel sick to your stomach? I can’t.

Let’s not get carried away. The scope of the comment is pretty narrow if you read it closely

The only thing I want to hear from you is that you actively disavow Trump, or if you feel this is going to hurt your business, at least say nothing at all. Anything other than that marks you as a shameless suck-up, and I want nothing to do with you or your business.

Ergo, I want nothing to do with Proton. It’s time suck-ups pay the price and see their bottom lines drop because of their dubious choices.