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  • Wish instance blocking actually blocked properly. But the main devs know everyone would block the tanky triad immediately and they'd have no one to troll.

  • I've always been interested in his story, but never got around to it. If you're up for it coujd you give me an ELI5 or somewhere to get the basics? Your comment got me curious.

  • They're gonna turn into dicks about it.

    Even if this was started for a good reason it would turn to shit eventually. But as a big company, this was done purely to make money off of FOMO.

    Only preservation this is about is preservation of future profit.

  • And this is another reason why I pirate so many games.

    They made their money on the hype when the games were released way back. Make them available and people will buy them instead of pirating. But they'd rather lock things away to cause FOMO like you said. They keep thinking about short-term profit rather than long-term steady income.

    This has nothing to do with preservation.

  • Have you met Nintendo fanboys? They're going to defend this shit like MAGAt republicans defend their Cheeto coloured Jesus.

  • yeet development is not.

    Yeah I would imagine yeeting the things you're developing could get expensive.

    Or do you mean developing new kinds of yeets? Probably still expensive.

  • I also don't agree with the killer games thing, but humans are very adaptable as a species.

    Normally that's a good thing, but in a case like this exposure to something shocking or upsetting can make it less shocking or upsetting over time (obviously not in every case). So, if AI is being used for something like this and being reported on isn't it possible that people might slowly get desensitized to it over time?

  • That's fair, but I still think it shouldn't be accepted or allowed.

  • Fair enough. I still think it shouldn't be allowed though.

  • Yes, but how is the AI making the images or videos? It has to be trained on SOMETHING.

    So, regardless of direct harm or not, harm is done at some point in the process and it needs to be stopped before it slips and gets worse because people "get used to" it.

  • This is really cool.

    Takes some getting used to when you're used to all of the links and other garbage in and around articles, but I'm sure anyone could learn to love this.

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  • They've accomplished nothing except further pissing off some of their most competent user base.

    I don't think they've cared about the competent users for a very long time. They only want the users who click OK or Next without reading or thinking.

  • I only know the DNS blocking from them.

    ETA: Not sure if their app does more.

  • DNS blocking (such as AdGuard) doesn't work for everything. Ad blocking extensions are the only way to block YouTube ads in your browser as far as I know.

  • Good thing there's so many options for people to find what they're looking for.

  • Thunder is my personal recommendation with Raccoon being my next choice.

    If you're interested that is. Otherwise just pretend I was never here.

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  • Happens to me every now and then with FreeTube. Usually gets fixed with updates.

  • Probably upset about "Happy Holidays" or something.

  • Nice. I'm hoping to get there eventually, but work stuff is keeping me on Windows.