• PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world
    1·
    1 year ago

    I feel like we’re regressing back to the Netscape Navigator/Internet Explorer browser war days, when browsers were openly and intentionally breaking functionality on competing sites.

  • saltnotsugar@lemm.ee
    1·
    1 year ago

    I only use my programming for good. For instance Bat_Count.exe lets the user enter a number and then the Count from sesame street will count to this number and say “Ah ah ah!” at the end.

    • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Not with that attitude. There is no reason we can’t cultivate alternatives like PeerTube. No video platform starts with a massive library and if we actually want to take back our digital rights then we have to put our foot down and give a hard “no” to trading those rights away just because we really want to watch a particular creator on a corporate platform. It’s the only way to not only stick it to Google but also let creators know that viewers will not tolerate the likes of Google.

      • flashgnash@lemm.ee
        1·
        1 year ago

        I think the hosting is the real problem. For something like Lemmy where it’s just text it’s not too expensive, but when you need to store and stream videos for free I have to imagine most people wouldn’t be able to afford that without charging for it and the moment you start charging you can’t compete with YouTube anymore

    • SorryQuick@lemmy.ca
      2·
      1 year ago

      I assume they wrote it as 5000 and it got changed to 5E3 by the minifier as it saves a byte?

      • dan@upvote.au
        2·
        1 year ago

        Yeah that’d be my guess. Minifiers squeeze every byte. true and false get minified to !0 and !1 respectively.

  • jeebus@kbin.social
    02·
    1 year ago

    I don’t understand why people don’t pay for YouTube premium. Best streaming service I pay for. No ad blockers required. When I watch YouTube at someone else’s house the ads drive me nuts.

    • pokexpert30@lemmy.pussthecat.org
      3·
      1 year ago

      • it’s too expensive to begin with. 14$/month ? Netflix is more expensive to run and is cheaper. I would be fine paying 5€/month tho.

      • at this point YouTube made a point I was not an acceptable client for them (5s delay because I’m not using the company mandated browser) so I’m not supporting that.

      You want my money Google? You already did. I bought a fucking pixel 8 pro because it’s a goddamn amazing phone. Do the same with YouTube.

      • HiddenLayer5@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        100%. It’s the principle of the thing. I don’t care how good YouTube Red is, simply the fact that they pulled as much bullshit as they have in an attempt to sucker people into paying for it warrants a total and permanent boycott. What Google is doing is utterly unacceptable and I’m not going to reward them for abusing my digital rights.

        • Quik@infosec.pub
          1·
          11 months ago

          because it’s insanely difficult to get along completely without YouTube. Or if you happen to have some kind of business it’s easier said than done to “just not optimize” for Google products or “just not use Google services” like having a Google Maps entry. On a side note, even getting a privacy focused smartphone without using Google services and products is near to impossible (e.g. GrapheneOS only works on Pixel phones…)

          • Kayn@dormi.zone
            0·
            1 year ago

            I am. It’s just ironic to say “fuck Google” while continuing to depend on Google’s service

              • Kayn@dormi.zone
                0·
                1 year ago

                You people are arguing that YouTube should be hosting videos without asking for any compensation. You will continue blocking ads no matter how many of them there are.

                I hope YouTube just completely paywalls itself so this whining can end already.

                • griD@feddit.deOPEnglish
                  1·
                  1 year ago

                  Don’t cut yourself with that edge!

                  inb4: “But YT operates at a loss and needs monies”. No. Just no. They deliberately worked at a loss to stifle and kill opposition.

    • letsgo@lemm.ee
      1·
      1 year ago

      (a) because it’s too expensive, and (b) it didn’t take a lot of DDGing to find “why am I still getting ads with YT Premium” and it turns out there are a bunch of exceptions that the YTP page doesn’t tell you about.

    • Cyrus Draegur@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I’ve been having an excellent experience with premium as well. I like knowing that I’m directly materially contributing to the people I watch. The only problem I have with YouTube premium lately is that it keeps trying to suggest fucking 8 hours long music streams to my TV and seems as though it’s REFUSING to learn that I don’t want to see that shit unless I’m deliberately searching for it. Get that shit the FUCK outta my feed. Otherwise, it’s the way YouTube was meant to be used.

      If I had my way though, I’d nuke YouTube’s ad system from orbit and replace it with this: for ads, NO VIDEO, NO SOUND, ONLY A SLIDE SHOW, CONTAINING ONLY TEXT. 15 Slides or 15 Seconds, MAXIMUM, whichever runs out first. If the user clicks anywhere but the product link, it advances the slide or closes the ad. PERIOD.