Armand1 @ Armand1 @lemmy.world

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As someone who has used this app for at least 6 years, I am very sad to see this happen.

I'm surprised they weren't able to get away with it after the change in extensions a couple versions ago. By not shipping extensions that have copyrighted content that should have been enough, similar to how emulators, services like Plex and torrenting applications survive.

It's effectively just a comic / manga reader that can be used for piracy when the right extensions are added.

Apparently that wasn't enough, and I can't blame open source devs for not wanting to start a legal battle with a profit-earning company.

For now, the app does allow you to add external repository's (list of extensions for various sources) that are still being updated, and I believe there are at least a few forks of the project that will survive for now.

All I can say is great work to the dev team for sticking with us until now and I wish you luck in your future ventures.

One problem I have with it is that it's harder than ever to get to the members list. You have to click a thing at the top of the screen rather than just swiping from the right.

Otherwise I'm mostly happy.

This looks like my old student accommodation

What is MK supposed to mean?

I live in the UK, and because of Brexit we won't get this. Thanks Nigel Farage.

And users are fully within their rights to circumvent the blocks

This is factually false (depending on your country).

From a quick Google search (ironic) the following seems to be true:

Blocking is not, in itself, illegal. However, circumventing restrictions on content, like what YouTube has added recently, is.

See this article: https://blockadblock.com/adblocking/adblockers-dont-break-the-law-except-when-they-do/

Oh wow that really is expensive. Americans do make more money on average than Europeans, but goddamn does your stuff cost a lot of money sometimes.

I think it's €15 here?

EDIT:

Ah, for the family plan. Just reread. Not sure what that is here.

I hadn't thought of it from a privacy perspective.

I couldn't imagine using YouTube not signed in because of the dogs**t recommendations you get then. I imagine if you're signed in the privacy loss is not significantly less than if you paid for Premium too.

I also use GMail so I'm already f***ed from that. I've basically given up on privacy at any other time than when I want to do private things, and I use a VPN and private browser.

Controversial take but:

• YouTube are fully within their rights to crack down on adblockers, as they have done in the past. Content delivery is not free, and they are not a charity.
• YouTube provides two ways to "pay" for your content: with ads, or by paying for premium.
• Tech companies have an unhealthy habit of making things free or cheap to gain a userbase, then increasing the price. The biggest problem with this imo is that it sets expectations with users that these things should be free
• I am not going to get into an argument about what price is "fair" or whether Google can "afford it". All I know is that for now, they continue to run YouTube, but nothing stops them from shutting it all down tomorrow if they decide it's not profitable enough.

As for myself personally, I watched YouTube with ads for the last 2 or 3 years, and more recently I decided to start paying for YouTube Premium.

YouTube Premium made sense for me because:

• I was spending more than 3 hours a day on YouTube (in the background or as the thing I'm actively watching.
• I could afford it now that my financial situation had improved
• Creators get significantly more money from YouTube Premium watchers (or so I've heard)

Before all of that, I used to use YouTube Vanced (RIP) and NewPipe, both great though not entirely legit ways of bypassing ads and downloading videos. I still use the latter to archive the really good content I come across.

If you're ok to pay for YouTube, but it's too expensive for the value you get out of it, there are alternative approaches. You can spoof your location and buy YouTube Premium in another country, like Turkey or India, and get it for as low as $2 a month. Google doesn't crack down on this much at the time of writing.

Note that there are also blind users on Lemmy. (They left Reddit partially because they weren't well supported there).

It's a good idea to transcribe your picture / video posts into the text description.

YOU DIED

Cyberpunk music starts playing

Getting water to places that don't have access to fresh water is not a minor inconvenience.

Ah! They do an audio puzzle apparently. For Google captchas at least.

https://support.google.com/recaptcha/answer/6175971?hl=en

Question: how do you make captchas work for blind people?

Oh. I happen to be on holiday in the next town over today. Neat.

Another person I've never heard of

https://media.tenor.com/RU0YcfaqPIIAAAPo/spy-tf2-spy-x-family.mp4

I think they mean "inaccuracy to reality" rather than "cheating on their partners"

33%? For the last 5 years I've been paying closer to 45-50%.

That's not counting power bills, which cost several times more than in the US.