I work for the grid too and we also have these. Usually only for bigger substations to transmit measurements and switching states, maybe a bit of telemetry like a tripped fuse.
I hope for dear god that you are remembering wrong and none of them trigger when loosing connection. Whoever thought of that should be immediately fired.
A loss of connection from a single device should never trip a circuit breaker (no idea how the bigger equivalent is called in english), especially if its connected wireless.
Satisfactory swaps the giant spiders with cat heads and even with my slight arachnophobia, I still prefer the spiders. The cat head floating towards you are somehow even creepier.
You can't bypass laws, but the law in question only requires permission of the enduser. Getting this permission in your ToS isn't bypassing anything, it's acting according to the law.
Link shortening is part of DDGPE so I mentioned it.
I don't know about any megathread or the like, but enabling the already provided lists in the setting should do most of the work. (If someone knows one I'd appreciate a link) If you need specific features like more cookie banner removals or blocking of youtube shorts, searching directly is good enough to get what you want.
There are additional lists you can activate to block annoyances like cookie banners. If you want to it's possible to add the whole "I still don't care about cookies" as a custom list so you combine the functionality without the added redundancy.
All the trackers that firefox blocks should be included in ublock origin as well. I'm not quite sure about their cookie isolation, but if you already block the tracking cookies you don't really need that.
As for DDGEP, it's also mostly a list of different trackers that get blocked which is redundant. The enforced https can also be achieved through browser settings. As for the link shortening to remove tracking, ublock has additional lists for that too. No idea about the supposed Google AMP protection and what it really does, but it also looks like a link shortener.
All in all, pretty much all functionality is covered by ublock origin, but it does require you to go into settings and enable some additional lists.
Delaying the video stream for the ad length would do most of the work. Since they manage that server side there is no way to request the video sooner. Blocking technically works, but you would have to stare at a blank screen for the ad duration.
I wouldn't want to deal with additional background characters either even if they played the role for free.
It's just more contracts to be signed, more people on set, more potential things that don't go as planned. Its a lot of extra work and organisation needed for something that pretty much no normal viewer would notice if done at least semi professionally.
Requests cost nothing, data storage and bandwidth usage do.
People upload over 500 hours of videos every minute, that's 256.320.000hours each year. Let's say that most of it is lower quality instead of 4K, so each hour takes 0.5GB of storage. That's 128PB every year. Youtube overall size probably reached Exabytes in the last few years.
Their daily bandwidth usage probably ranges way into Petabytes too, something you were orders of magnitude away over the whole life cycle of your site.
At least the "character getting ejected" bug can have a direct connection with framerate issues and the corresponding settings. Most of the other stuff you've mentioned can be impacted by localisation, subtitle and accessibility settings.
It wouldn't fall to greed, bit to laziness and convince. Why would anyone use a protocoll that limits the user instead of the one that let's you talk with anyone you want.
It makes grid planing an absolut nightmare. We need to overbuild by a lot so a few days with less wind and sun doesn't lead to blackouts. Big windparks can be turned off reliably if there is too much energy produced, but the same can't be said for personal installations.
While it's possible to disconnect personal solar cells from the grid by increasing the frequency a bit, you can't just do that if the village is still connected to the entire grid. You first have to switch the whole village manually into island mode. Not to mention that a lot of times they don't restart automatically.
Yup. That alone will break many tax and employment laws in most countries, leading to serious lawsuits pretty much anywhere in the world. China's government type just sped up the whole process a bit, but the result would be pretty much the same elsewhere.
One would think that that's the case, but youtube will happily show you ads on videos they themselves deemed not advertiser friendly. The creator simply doesn't receive any money.
The only app revanced has is the "revanced manager", which requires you to manually download a youtube apk and then patch it yourself. Any finished revanced youtube client you find online is done by a third party and is very risky to use.
Tbh it sounds like you didn't search for the website, but just put the term itch.io into the search box. Special characters like a dot get completely ignored in the search, so you searched for "itch io username" which will give massively different results depending on the username.
If you search for the site properly by using site:itch.io then Google will only show you results from that site and nothing else.
Lots of complaints about the Google results often come down to user errors.
Google is the standard. I'd argue that more than 50% of the population doesn't know what a browser or a search engine is. They put their question into whatever textbox they find in chrome and Google gives them their answers.
There are no better alternatives for the general userbase. Other search engines are better for your privacy and may give better results if you know how to use extended search parameters, but very few people even care about all that. Google is the search engine that will give you the best result if you just type in your question.
I work for the grid too and we also have these. Usually only for bigger substations to transmit measurements and switching states, maybe a bit of telemetry like a tripped fuse.
I hope for dear god that you are remembering wrong and none of them trigger when loosing connection. Whoever thought of that should be immediately fired.
A loss of connection from a single device should never trip a circuit breaker (no idea how the bigger equivalent is called in english), especially if its connected wireless.