I know they are doing their best to keep up with yt shenanigans. but they sometimes make decisions that hurt the user experience. like removing the reload option from the video page. its incomprehensible why the removed a feature that probably didn’t interfere with the rest of the software performance

ublock origin only blocks ads.

But if you want a bit of privacy it can’t stop youtube from collecting your data and keeping you in a feedloop bubble.

With these types of clients yt can’t track you. and everytime i reload the app it’s like I am new user to them they don’t have all my browsing history. plus you can subscribe to channel without logging into yoututbe

didn’t know they made a desktop version. will try out thanks!

They removed Ctrl*r from video pages since around April

Yes. by clicking ‘r’ you were able to reload the video page. but it was remove around April, and it only works on the search page.

They cited something unconvincing I don’t remember why exactly but they are blocking all discussions about it since.

My dad listens to AI generated stories. I still don’t know if he realizes they are Fictional AI stories, or if this is his way of killing time by this instead of listening to audio books. I guess audiobooks take commitment

It has already changed a lot of things in my life to the worst. that I am scared what it would look like once It changes ‘Everything’

Will try that, thanks!

I wouldn’t have thought of that but it is too cumbersome of a workaround, and running and android vm makes my laptop run hot

Ten years too late.

This could have had a far greater impact when whatsapp exodus or controversy happend in 2021. I bet they have reached a stall in the number of new accounts and donations are drying out.

I have also read rumors about them thinking about tying this to a one time payment to prevent bot registration

lemmy is lighter on resources if you care about your internet usage footprint. and far more stable overall.

Google is the biggest threat to anything good in technology, this cancer must be eradicated

Niantic is a google company

XMPP is a shitshow of its own, very fragmented architecture. different incomplete implementations. each server can chose which features (extensions) to turn on and which not) so you can’t be sure that the person you are trying to talk to on the other server can have access to the same features, like threads or voip.

I have previously read that omemo 2 implementation is insecure. my previous experience with it 4 years ago made me give up after encrypted messages were getting lost when messaging between different clients

there is no one flagship app for XMPP that works cross platefrom and has all features implemented. heck I can’t even find a windows that support voip. and their will be none. cause xmpp has lost all traction.

As for Movim, I hate using web apps. bad user experience in general. add to that I don’t remember it ever having been audited

I understand the concern, and I find it fishy that the matrix team didn’t try to address that (maybe they did but I just didn’t come across that)

but on the other hand many governments and ministries like the French MOD have deployed matrix locally for their private use. not sure they want to use a software that the mossad can directly tap into

Intuitiveness aside, it is very messy, unorganized and painful to navigate

How did you adjust to not having layer styles in gimp, the workarounds are very tiresome

That and shape layers are what holding me from using gimp fulltime

They are boiling the frog, just like whatsapp did in 2021 remember the uproar about whatsapp data sharing with business accounts and stuff, whatsapp played the long game delayed the change, let the anger die and everyone just stayed.

Reddit took the tough approach in 2023. they didn’t budge. people stopped boycotting and went back to reddit shortly after.

Boycotts don’t work

Weird how they are good at digging up the past relationship between the matrix team prior donators with the mosad. but failed to mention not even once that matrix’s biggest advantage is its federated nature.

So imagine you have a selfhosted matrix server and you want to invite a friend over for a chat but this friend already has an account at his other friend’s server. in Matrix he doesn’t have to make an account on every server their interlocutor is in, he just sends his messages, like its done over email, or here on lemmy (fediverse). this is an advantage other software like fluxer of stoat don’t have. and I doubt they will able to add it anytime soon, as the work needed is probably huge and would need years of work to make a proper secure e2e federate messaging solution.

AI has already torched my creative side project I have spent hundreds of hours on to hopefully one day it replaces my miserable income. now that AI has been able to generate acceptable videos by the public. my revenue went down by 80%. and people are expecting lower prices in times of inflation

People think there are wins to come, how I see it is that we have already lost the fight.