The "problem" they are trying to solve is "how do we keep people on the platform clicking and watching more videos for longer?" and the "solution" to that doesn't necessarily involve showing you what you actually wanted to find.
Yeah, this was never a thing until Amazon made it one.
Thankfully, the law is very unambiguous about this, and if a parcel is left outside and then stolen before it gets into your hands (unless you specifically asked for it to be left outside) then you are entitled to a refund or replacement.
Amazon play the numbers game and figure that replacing x number of packages costs less than needing their drivers to bring all the undeliverable packages back and try again a different day.
It's not a cool precedent though and I very much dislike it being normalised.
I read 'creepiest publisher', and with the state of the industry these days I immediately thought it was going to be some exposé piece on a toxic culture of workplace misogyny, and sexual harassment.
Glad it's actually a cool studio doing interesting things!
I don't think we want that. It sets some weird precedent that instances need to be lemmy-dot-something, which is both untrue and restrictive on server hosts as a barrier for entry if that becomes the universal convention.
Notifications are allowed only when they serve as a convenience mechanism to tell me something happened in my life that I want to know about and care about.
They are not allowed when they function purely as a free interrupt mechanism to allow a corporation to monetise my attention for their profit.
Viewers have literally zero attention span, so if the talking isn't super high speed back to back without even a single second to pause for breath, people click off or scroll past.
Same with subtitles that flash up rapidly, a single word at at time.
That's the sorry state of affairs we are now living with.
Even if only 1% of people used adblock, then that's 1% of millions of dollars of ad revenue. It's easily enough to put several people on this as a full time job if they want to.
I'm sure Google saw it as only a minor issue at first, but the number of people using adblockers is presumably going up all the time.
The irony being of course that adblock usage is skyrocketing only because companies like Google have made the Internet so thoroughly ad-polluted it's intolerable to go without one.
The real dress is actually blue and black, yes, but the illustration tries to show how the exact same colours can look different depending on lighting and context.
In the diagram, the dress on the left is strongly blue and black, while the dress on the right is strongly white and yellow.
And yet the connected parts of the dresses with the "pipes" between them show the exact same colour on one dress can look like a different color on the other. The "pipe" is there so you can follow it with your own eyes from one side to the other and observe that it is indeed the same colour on both sides, despite looking very different when observed as part of the whole image.
The point being, how our brains perceive colour is very situationally dependent, and some people assume a different situation than others, hence the differences in perception.
People tend to believe that vision is absolute, that we all have the same eyes and see the same things, but that's absolutely not true. The dress phenomenon occurred because It's not about what your "eyes" see in absolute terms, it's about what your "brain" does with that information.
For anyone needing to manage Logitech devices under Linux, try Solar
Got me sorted recently when I wanted to pair a dongle with a different mouse than it came with.
https://github.com/pwr-Solaar/Solaar