KillingTimeItself

i love when websites (twitter is a really bad example) hit me with like 8 captchas, and then if i get my username/password wrong i have to do another 8. It’s just so obviously gaming for training data on shit lmao.

the new ones suck so fucking much though

that’s great, how long until you think youtube makes a new premium tier that starts showing ads?

Or that one notable bug where premium shows you ads.

my point is that there is no guarantee in the quality of the service, they have no legal requirements for it (here in murica at least)

hence the until it stops working, but even then it will likely get worked around for the most part.

legally that’s the same as far as courts care.

The only thing that would change this is a ruling on advertiser responsibility. Or something tangentially related that would force them to properly regulate ads for example.

Ultimately i’m guessing unless youtube rolls their own in home ads, instead of allowing other advertising agencies to run their ads on youtube, it simply wouldn’t apply here.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/c/piracy

check out the megathread for generic info and recommendations.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/30062 specific thread for i2p, there’s plenty more information out there, you can also ask me about a few things as well.

the TL;DR for doing it without ur isp bonking u is to use a VPN, or a seedbox, which are options. Though you’ll ideally want to use anonymous payment services like monero instead of something else, if you really want to be secure.

from what i understand, private trackers are generally fine and secure, aside from the fact that ur isp might not like the traffic, but that’s a fault of the ISP, not the law. torrenting is perfectly legal. Though using a VPN is probably still recommended anyway.

navigating malicious software is kind of hit or miss now, but it’s more likely you’ll find them on bigger reaching platforms, and in actual software, rather than like, mp3s or movies. That’s just basic opsec though. (again private trackers are beneficial for this reason, they have better QA and vetting)

yeah, if you want to charge me on a per packet basis, fucking charge me on a per packet basis.

don’t play this bullshit of “unlimited bandwidth” but actually it’s 1gbs so it’s not unlimited but actually very specifically limited to one specific amount, and nothing more, because it’s physically impossible for it to be higher.

They’re not getting it for free. They pay video creators. And they know that the more they can pay them, the more and better content they will get.

barely, most of that payment is from premium subscribers and memberships, people who spend their own money on this, youtube gives them a share of the ads, sure, but ads are basically a fraction of the majority of most youtuber incomes these days.

I can point you to some people who need your money more than you do. Are you going to give it to them? Why not?? Doesn’t money flow to those who need it??? Isn’t that how this works???

i can point you to the basic fact that if i just keep my money, i can very well do more work with that money that i keep, rather than just giving it away to other people.

Money doesn’t flow to those who need it, money flows to those who get it through commerce most effectively.

yeah, the admin of the instance chose to do so, they often accept donations, so you can stuff money there if you feel like it.

I’m not getting a “free lunch” the instance admin is giving me a free lunch at their own expense, and being compensated in other manners.

ah yes all you have to do is spend like 100 USD yearly, ever year, and pay for features you don’t want, just so youtube can maybe stop posting ads.

maybe if youtube didn’t club itself over the head with the adpocalypses that happened, they wouldn’t be in a position right now where every youtuber ever just integrates their ads directly into their videos.

They’re monetizing in other ways as well, memberships especially.

surely large corpos would waste billions on ads if they didn’t see any financial return right!

Also, we should be taking a page from the propaganda playbook right now, that should pretty much tell us all we need to know lol.

i feel like with a relatively basic audio and visual analysis you could probably get a decently accurate detection of ads, paired with a collective “sponsor block” type system, this would like be very reliable. Even just ignoring the stream info itself.

Just let the time code go negative at the end of the video if you skipped.

horrendously bad UI, this should never be done, recalculate the time, maybe. But don’t just make it negative, that’s fucking stupid.

surely they’re going to make the ads vary in speed, that would be a horrid UI mistake.

Last but not least, the USSR had much higher GDP per capita and living standards than the average third world capitalist country (which is where the demographic majority of capitalist people live), so even if the USSR could not equate Switzerland, they achieved a good quality of life better than the world average.

why would this be relevant? The US had a higher per capita GDP than the USSR and it was capitalist, surely that means that capitalism would be better here?

well, technically the USSR exported lots and lots of grain during the 30s famine. So.

It’s still not perfect, but you could argue there was mismanagement there.

TBF, stalinism wasn’t really communism, it was more authoritarianism than anything, but.

no because of sec 230 and publisher rights, they were still directly serving them before, the only difference now is that it’s tied into the video stream directly, rather than broken out as a second one.