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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

As I have been transitioning more and more of my stuff to FOSS, it has become clear that the infrastructure to push shit on you is a huge problem in itself, even if you block and avoid it all.

The user experience benefit in performance alone makes it worth it for me. Even if we ignore eeeeeverything else, it’s so nice to have your computer just do what you ask it to do, and not triage your request with 50 other corporate priorities.

My favorite two recent examples are replacing Windows with Linux, and replacing Plex with Jellyfin.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago)

Nope. Any service that would ever do that is instantly a no-go. I’d stop using a smartphone before I’d put up with that.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 22 hours ago

I hope this idea is patented by a patent troll who has no intention of licensing it out for a reasonable cost...

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No ads, no masters.

There's never been a worthwhile server with unskippable or unblockable ads.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (9 children)

This is exactly why I stopped watching Twitch. It was the only service I tolerated ads on. Until they hit a point where the frequency and number of ads were just unbearable and I haven't opened the site since.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Like one person uses them responsibly, like specifically for bathroom breaks, forces them at specific times so people don't miss out on content.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Twitch also requires you to do a certain number of ads per hour/amount of ad time per hour in order to hit the partnership levels for decent pay. Otherwise, IIRC, Twitch puts their own ads in and the streamer doesn't receive any revenue from the ads.

I think Thor over at Pirate Software did a video on it back when that whole "Twitch Adpocalypse" drama was happening.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

Thor is the one person I was referencing

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Yeah, the issue is that if you don’t run ads, Twitch will just put their own in before your stream starts. And this absolutely kills any sort of discoverability for your channel; If new viewers have to watch 90 seconds of ads before they can even see your stream, they’ll just bail.

So for the sake of growing your channel, it’s actually better to run ads. Because then your viewers aren’t immediately blasted by a ton of unskippable ads as soon as they start your stream.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)
[–] monotremata 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It was in Black Mirror years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 17 hours ago (3 children)
[–] monotremata 8 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

It's a British TV anthology series similar to The Twilight Zone, but most of the episodes are about technologic dystopias

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 hours ago

Specifically the season 1 episode "15 Million Merits". One of my favourites.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 16 hours ago

It's what happens when you scorch glass without shattering it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

They've already had this one, I guarantee it.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll quit using anything that does that.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

It's your government issued app, required to access services like hospitals and social security.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'll quite that government

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[–] imvii 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's when I'd put my "smart" phone in the toaster and go dust off the Nokia 3310

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ya im not using ANY device that does this.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

At that point, retro gaming is where it’s at, or piracy, or board games, basically ANYTHING else is better than that.

Sadly it does feel we are very close to this… 😢

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I don't know if this is real but if it is, this method of forced watching something you are not interested in guarantees to create negative emotions towards that brand.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah but the C suite is so far removed from reality they don't know, or don't care to know about it. It's not like you have much of a choice anyhow. They've bought up the competition, drove out the mom and pop shops. Their mentality is "yeah, but what are you gonna do about it?"

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

That's how they get all of the Luigi's.

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is where you write a companion app to load the ad in a separate instance while feeding it false camera input data and continue watching in peace.

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[–] [email protected] 138 points 1 day ago (8 children)

That's an immediate uninstall.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 day ago

That's not even an install. A non-camera/video chat/QR scan app demanding permanent (!) access to the camera is a big No no

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 day ago (9 children)

relax, when the industry puts this into practice (not IF but WHEN) they will stick it very slowly in us until we get used to it and don't even realize that we already accept it quietly without complaining

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 day ago (6 children)

I would just stop using whatever the service is. For as long as I can that is. Not long before our new dictatorship might force us to watch ads for crucial services.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

How cute of them to think that they'll have access to camera or that I got a camera in the first place

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Well, that's certainly one way to reduce our screen time. I've got shelves of neglected books that need attention.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Be sure to stock up on verification cans

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[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 day ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

We will just have sketchy apps we download happily that trick the phone into thinking we are looking, further bloating them.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 day ago

Blink detected... Added 10 more seconds of ads...

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