Fangslash

joined 1 year ago
[–] Fangslash@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

For IOS peeps: I’m using Orion browser, which supports some firefox entensions like UblockOrigin that blocks ads. Brave also works.

Downside is they’re missing a good number of features, and changing playback speed messes up the audio

[–] Fangslash@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

There used to be a trick where you can skip ads in youtube app by pretending to report it. i’ve used that to skip the 2x30s unskippable ads over the years, but that was patched recently.

So instead of occasionally watching ads while scrolling through comments, I’ve now opt to watch youtube in browser with UblockOrigin. And good luck to google for playing catch-22 with adblockers.

Shame that I used to have youtube in my adblock whitelist

[–] Fangslash@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm one of those guys, IOS phone with windows PC. There really isn't much out there that is as convenient as IOS, but theres no way I would use a Mac, as compatibility issues and more expensive hardware will ultimately hurt functionality.

[–] Fangslash@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

In this case its quite simple: the production process is cheap and easy enough anyone with a garage can replicate it in a week, where as flying to Korea takes weeks for visa and plane ticket and appointments scheduling

[–] Fangslash@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

honestly, why not do what reddit did and restrict US news to a specific sublemmy

[–] Fangslash@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Because for the first time in 14 years money is no longer free.

Right now the interest rate sits at 5% and it will remain there for the foreseeable future. Investors no longer have the patients to wait for growth because bonds are actually investable now, so all your “get user first find business later” companies began to panic and tries to squeeze everything out of its users.

Hilariously, the only social media company that will come out of this relatively unharmed is probably Facebook, because their unethical practices actually makes money

[–] Fangslash@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

"Take your pants off and walk outside"

[–] Fangslash@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

thats what I thought too - until I actually signed up for Nebula. It took me a week to exhaust every creator I wanted to watch.

No regrets because I do enjoy the content, but their catalogue is absolutely tiny compare to youtube.

[–] Fangslash@lemmy.world 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Rumor has it that wearing knee-highs and short skirts improve coding efficiency by 50%

[–] Fangslash@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Theres on going drama with subs going nsfw. For what I know NCD was forced to go into sfw mode, along with serveral other subs.

Good luck explaining to your advertisers why their ads are shown along side fighter jet hentai, mobnik cubes, and nuclear and dam schizoposting.

[–] Fangslash@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yea, I don’t think the original poster understands why google hurts XMMP, because by that logic once google left XMMP is also let at where it is at before google joined.

The issue with cooperations joining federation is they almost always have better infrastructure, they will siphon users out of the wider network with convenience. Then eventually they will forcibly leave the network with its users, because that makes them more money, at the cost of their user and everyone else on the network as we get less connectivity.

[–] Fangslash@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I will always be horrified when your local mom n pop shop expects you to say your credit card and security pins out over the phone.

These days larger companies have terminals that accepts keyboard input, still not ideal but much better than saying it out.

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