Exactly. With youtube’s shitty tutorial search functions ever since they removed dislikes, i kinda need to see the start of the video to know if its even relevant. But no. Full on 2-3 pre-video ads.

I personally only pirate indie games to make sure only triple A titles are profitable.

They did say “except in select countries”.

Solid point, although we dont know for sure if they offered a free month back when he started.

For the single community i still want to participate in on reddit i use their msobile website. Its not good, but not as bad as people make it out to be if you just wanna spend a few minutes of reading and commenting.

They offer 1 month free to show their appreciation? Dont they offer 1 month free to literally everyone? You just open youtube and you are bombarded by “try youtubr premium free 1 month”.

Such bullshit “appreciation”. This is insulting.

But on Google Pixel for example, you have no trivial way to get rid of the google search bar on every pagw on your home screen, and the global phone search also always uses google for the web results. This can only be changed by replacing the launcher or OS. this is not a fair competition. Google are abaolutely abusing their ability to control the platform.

wE hAd aN uPdaTe bUG tHAt ACCIDENTLY cAuSeD sOmE tHInGs tO rEseT

Not my first libre product, but definitely the one that got me into searching for libre alternatives - OpenOffice. Despite not being great at the time (or ever), i was amazed by how complicated microsoft turned 365Office into. I suddenly had to buy subscriptions to all of the office products for outrages prices just so that i can have a simple words editors? Screw that, i googled for “open source office software” and never came back to m$Office.

Dont worry, the market will simply regulate itself.

I understood the problems are about security patches being late there, and the freeze periods. Why not usw unstable?

1. The first 2 months dont really count. People wanna finish that one show or continue until they find a good replacement.

2. People on reddit/lemmy said they would leave. They dont really represent the vast majority.

You only get it through the app? Not even the desktop site?

This shit basically killed reddit as a proffesional information aourcr ror me. No im not gonna log into reddit on my work pc, i just need to be looking for technical data i can find elsewhere.

Once you lose your convenience status you are doomed to die a slow death into becoming a niche old website.

Dont those companies that collect your data always keep stressing how much they dont directly sell your data so third parties cant actually know its you?

Bullshit. The U.S. constitution is AI written. You will never convince me otherwise.

Opera is chromium based though.

You dont even need this DRM bullshit to become law. Chrome will simply put a warning before entering websites without it that goes “this website doesnt use name of a technology the user doesnt understand and therefore might be dangerous”. Thats it. Every and all websites will immediatly implement this DRM bullshit or die.

If all of the oil companies comply, all is gonna be well. If only one of them doesnt, things are gonna end up well as well. If only two dont, its probably still gonna be good. If three…

They just all wanna be that “one company that doesnt comply”, so they all dont comply.

There is a known experiment about 100 students being given a choice before a test - choose A and you gain 2 extra points. Choose B and you gain 6 extra points. However, if more than 30% of the students choose B, no one gains anything. From what i checked, in every iteration of this experiment, no one gained anything in the end. Thats just human nature.

The problem is that the ones that will benefit from AI taking over are the big companies that create such AIs - Google, Meta, Apple. They will grow exponentially by having AIs work for them 24/7. So its not like himanity as a whole will grow, it will just be these companies, and they will slowly become the rulers of humanity.

I just thought it was specific mods. Usually when i make reddit comments defending Israel they get silently deleted.