• barsquid@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Anyone else remember when new technology used to be fun and exciting instead of miserable?

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      23 days ago

      Long gone are the days when I used be excited to read update notes for new features… Now I just hope they don’t god damn force an update on me.

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          22 days ago

          I use PurpleTV and it’s been great. It’s a Twitch fork modified to block ads, reduce bloat, and include customisation for chat, player and other components.

          Don’t know if we can share links here but the APK can be easily found online, still being updated semi-regularly. I won’t come back to the official app as long as I’m able. :)

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            22 days ago

            Cheers for that. I had other third party apps way back in the day but they lacked some features. Will check it out.

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        22 days ago

        Just use Free and Open Source Software!

        It can always fuck up with updates, but usually you just get more free stuff and it’s awesome.

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      23 days ago

      Somewhere along the line, maybe the early to mid 2000’s they stopped making products “for” the end-user and flipped it around so the end-user (their data) is now the product, and the customers are governments, corporations, and share holders.

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        22 days ago

        Because those shareholders (billionaires) and corporations drained the consumers of all of their money and now they’re the most profitable demographic to market to.

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        22 days ago

        shareholders

        If 0.000…01% shareholders count:

        Guessing a lotta us have a few bucks in index funds… suppose that ain’t cool, gotta find a principled fund.

        The most principled funds must only invest in like three companies cuz every corp has some problem.

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      23 days ago

      That’s part of the reason why new community oriented projects are way more interesting to me now than most software. There are some outliers in the space who still have dedicated people in their craft rather than for money but it is fewer and farther between.

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      22 days ago

      Absolutely. Although, this is just making old technology worse because web 3.0 and AI aren’t performing to corpo expectations.

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      22 days ago

      That’s what happens when you aren’t the (sole) paying customer.

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    23 days ago

    Soon: when you pause a video, it starts playing a video ad with audio, to make sure no silence time gets wasted from your speakers.

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        23 days ago

        Yeah, uBlock Origin not working would take me from liking YouTube a fair bit to making it unusable.

        • I use Proton but keep legacy Gmail accounts around to ensure I still have access to accounts I may have forgotten about or people I knew a long time ago sending a stray email. The only other usage is logging into YouTube.
        • I use a Captcha solver extension.
        • I use uBlock Origin to block all their ads.
        • I don’t use their DNS.
        • I use DDG over their search engine and Firefox over their browser.
        • I don’t use Google Drive or their office suite (I think the latter is abysmal to use tbf).
        • I use DeepL over Translate.
        • I use NewPipe for YouTube on mobile and have a subscription to Nebula.
        • I no longer use Google Maps, opting for OSM instead.
        • I still use Android and unfortunately can’t unlock the bootloader but have degoogled as far as I know how, including never even registering a Google account with it (F-Droid + Aurora Store).

        YouTube is far and away the biggest means by which I interact with Google, and that falls off a cliff if I’m forced to interact with a mess of their ridiculously shitty ads every time I have to use it. uBO has likely saved hundreds of hours of watching ads over my lifetime (and probably thousands of dollars from not being subconsciously influenced by ads), and I’m not paying a subscription fee to such an unethical company to get rid of the ads. This would bring me from YouTube as a timewaster to YouTube only as strictly necessary. Even though I don’t support them directly through ads, I do support them by supporting creators I like monetarily, by sharing links and maintaining the network effect, and by giving them plenty of metadata by interacting with their service. If they do this, they ensure that I continue to monetarily support competitors like Nebula and permanently lose a grip they’ve had on me since I was a kid.

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        23 days ago

        That’s what we need tbh. If people get fed up and leave then eventually creators will too

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      If it doesn’t I will make something that records the entire f****** stream and removes the commercials out of it the old fashioned way If I have to. Not my first rodeo.