rob299 @ rob299 @bookwormstory.social

Posts

7

Comments

67

Joined

2 yr. ago

Just to put this out there for those who probally didn't read the article. YouTube does this 5 second delay thing, on purpose only if it detects a user using an adblocker if you don't use the adblocker then Youtube will work as it normally would on that browser.

Whether it's still a clunky experienceor the browser crashes really Is dependant on that browser and if it's a good alternative browser.

In other words, 'fix he delay by disabling the adblocker', coming from Youtube themselves.

Dolar tree, they will always have my back in this economy. 100 tea bags of green tea for 1.25 i'm set for a few months atleast on tea without paying anything. the upfront price for that item alone was $1.25

I don't think it would be illegal unless it's a Chromebook they lended to you directly to work at the company. If you went to a store and bought it your self it's perfectly legal to throw ubuntu on that Chromebook.

Here's where things start to get harder though..

Whether they will fire you.. eh idk if I would take that risk. But if anything just ask the people working there for their opinion on it.

I don't think it's really changed, maybe it's just your perception of it. It's just as addictiv today as it was last year as I see it.

It's optimal to them. You just don't understand Youtube's perspective of it yet. And then it's unoptimal for them when you watch with the adblocker.

That's a way to look at, but i'l personally still be using Peertube. instead of 3rd party YouTube apps.

in the short term they work, but YouTube can cut those 3rd party apps access at any time for any reason. Use Peertube for the better long term.

Yeah be like me and just use Peertube, I don't even notice this stuff untill people complain about it haha.

They do have a good overall ui, but the trust in them is less then it was before. Even if they did stop doing partnerships with Microsoft they also stopped keeping their users out of the filter bubble, meaning they filter search resualts out, while before they use to claim they didn't do that.

They do have a good overall ui, but the trust in them is less then it was before. Even if they did stop doing partnerships with Microsoft they also stopped keeping their users out of the filter bubble, meaning they filter search resualts out, while before they use to claim they didn't do that.

Kinda but not quite, better hope them search resualts are comparable to Google's, while if I just change sign up on a new email account, and just change my email on all my accounts then boom. Oh the interface might lack some (tbh) unneeded features. If emails send and you can respond then what are you missing exactly? Nothing too major.

I just get why you would need such an advance interface for a simple emailing service where you just send and respond to emails. If the emails send, shouldn't the be enough? It's not like you need a crazy search API like Google's to even come close to comparison with them. The email experience really isn't impacted that badly. unless i'm missing something here.

Protonmail. or tutanota are some of the best alternatives.

This exists already, it's called Searxng. The instances don't federate with each other necessarily but rather with actual search engines. But each instance of searxng is hosted by a different person. and so you might notice different resaults on one server vs the next. https://searx.space/

Good perspective.

Personally I quit using ddg. Duckduckgo uses Microsoft's Bing API I jumped atleast two years ago from ddg. They seem to be buddy buddy with Microsoft, they have a history for it. Oh and remember when ddg use to talk about filter bubbles, well now they support filter bubbles.

I think this is because they have so much more users now then they did back then so now they are forgeting small parts of their original purpose. While keeping the one big one, privacy. We'l see how long ddg protects that without getting caught doing more shady stuff with Microsoft. Yes I said more, they were caught before allowing ads on Microsoft website in the ddg android browser once before.

To an extent, yes. I believe tho that social media enables the potential spread of dividing people. Do I personally think social media is the number one reason, no.

The people using it also make up social media. without the people social media is worthless, and powerless. and the more powerless in particular that it is the less divisions it would be able to cause, if that real is the legit cause of dividing people. It might or might not be the main cause but sure we could agree that it enables the spread of divising tactics.

Never heard of that happening unless it was a battery issue

In that case I absolutely would recommend Peertub to you.