Jamie

There are far too many ways for an immortality wish to make your life hell in ways that a money wish uh, wishes it could.

I see it that way. You don't dive into some strange without protection, don't let your computer do it with websites.

For as long as people have complained about YouTube ads even before they started the crackdown, I don't think it'll matter. Tons of people didn't block them even before the option went away.

Personally, I bit the bullet and got Premium last year because I didn't feel like maintaining a DNS solution on my wifi and like using my TV for it. YouTube is basically the main form of "TV" that I watch when I'm in a couch potato mood. Most actual TV shows that come out aren't interesting to me.

I'm not really advocating everyone just go buy premium. Even in my case I'm not jumping up and down to give Google my money by any means. But for my situation it's an expense that I justify for myself

I assume you're talking about tracking score on profiles ala Reddit? There's nothing stopping anyone from making their own client or modifying lemmy-ui to do that if someone really cares.

But honestly, Lemmy has enough bots posting stuff that I wouldn't want to bring more incentive for karma farming in.

I helped someone I know out with a thing on their computer and got blasted by ads because they didn't use an ad blocker.

Those two minutes on the Internet really had me questioning how anyone manages to use it raw without going insane.

I block ads on all my devices, but I assume they're scams by default when I do see them.

I use adnauseum on my computer so it blocks the ads, but also sends a request simulating a click to the ad network. Based on average CPM, I've cost advertisers like $300 so far.

I am a Texan and I can confirm, y'all is fun to say, y'all.

I'm a Loss Prevention Manager.

I just wanted to know how computers worked when I was fairly young. Like, I'd open a web browser and look at the homepage, and think "But how does the computer know how to draw all this stuff?" As in, how do you take an image of something from real life, and over the internet put that image on somebody's screen for them to see? Or how does it know what to do when I click this icon and run a program?

I found out about a popular programming language called C++, asked my parents to buy me a book on it while we were at the book store. Learned a lot, moved on to other languages for other things I wanted to do. It's still a fun hobby, but I never opted to make a career out of it.

I think they can in their own game forum, but not universally

I think it's just easier for people to cope with bad things happening around them if they can simply point a finger at someone or something and blame that. It's easier than accepting that the universe is random and chaotic, and sometimes random chaos decides to hurt you.