If the connections are solid it wouldn't pick up any more noise than a 6.5mm to RCA adaptor would have. Any jiggle to the cable would result in popping or cracking though, depending on the configuration could be quite jarring.
What are you talking about ofcourse they can, it's an activation which is stored on their servers, edit the FMI database and your phone is activated. They chose not to provide that service because they can't know if your device is stolen and it's way to much of a hassle to confirm you actually bought it. iCloud unlocking is a widespread phenomenon.
There was a blog post here recently where a repair technician with his own shop was trying to contact Apple about reportedly stolen iphones being reactivated and resold and it undermining his business. They then found more and in one case it was a rogue Apple employee doing the activations, and in another it was software tools they found and send to Apple, which got ignored for more than half a year.
I can't seem to find the original article but here's Louis Rossman explaining the same thing. The argument boils down to the fact that Apple doesn't care, more iphones means more people with wallets attached to them.
Also, it wouldn't necessarily be public knowledge on exactly how it's done, otherwise 1 Apple would try to fix the issue or 2 there's money to be made in selling the service.
Both Apple's and Google's activation locks are actively being bypassed though. It's probably not being done by a run-of-the-mill thief, but it can be done, if not for a price.
Thats's where OP's kurzgesagt video comes into play, they state that we as humans do not have the mental capacity to process the amount of information that is available to us. Social media hijacks this need for connection.
We as humans tend to seek out likeminded people, every kind of person is welcome here but the fact that we're all using the same platform connects us in a way. There comes a point in every social media where this interconnection fades away due to a growing userbase, because when a platform reaches this point users no longer feel that base connection and start interacting with people in a completely different, much more negative, way.
The OP video explains how engagement driven rage content is not the cause of that, but rather a result of this loss of interconnection.
I do agree/hope the fediverse has smaller chance of that happening, but statistics would probably predict a similar direction when this platform hits a critical mass.
I do interpret it as not having an exuberant userbase atm, many share the sentiment of lemmy feeling like early internet and this is probably why. But this means once it's large enough, the same might happen to the fediverse.
But the great thing about the fediverse is how you can create your own instance and do with it as you please, maybe allow partial federation so people can read but not interact, or an entirely sepperated federation. Create your own village but still be interconnected by a high speed train network.
En passant has always been the most obscure chess rule, in online chess it's often reported as cheating. Which resulted in a lot of people saying "google en passant", on an unkown lemmy clone someone realising it's an actual chess move replied, holy hell, and a meme was born.
Hence why it might be hurtful to small creators. I'd love to see the numbers on that though, as the overall percentage of people using an adblocker is very low, I assume for Sponsorblock it's significantly less.
If the connections are solid it wouldn't pick up any more noise than a 6.5mm to RCA adaptor would have. Any jiggle to the cable would result in popping or cracking though, depending on the configuration could be quite jarring.