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Cake day: October 12th, 2023
  • hiddengoat@kbin.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•YouTube is now fully blocking ad blockers around the world
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    10 months ago

    IF? Are you paying attention to what’s going on with Chrome?

    Google is introducing a bullshit system that will ultimately let them control what the browser can and can’t display.
    They are working to eliminate ad blockers entirely.

    Their entire fucking goal is to lock down YOUR FUCKING BROWSER so they can send you any ads they want, at any time they want, without them even having to be served through a website. They also want to push their “security” bullshit so that if you’re using a non-Chrome browser you get excluded from the internet.

    And right now the overwhelming majority of browsers are Chrome based.

    The EU will likely not let this happen, but the US has no balls when it comes to carving up shitbags these days.

  • hiddengoat@kbin.socialtoTechnology@beehaw.org•Elon Musk gives X employees one year to replace your bank
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    10 months ago

    It’s all about PayPal, isn’t it?

    Holy fucking shit.

    PayPal is Musk’s Obama burn.

    PayPal shitcanned him because he’s a fucking idiot so he takes that money, gets SpaceX going and memes Tesla to success by sheer accident. At the point everyone’s thinking he’s “Rill Loaf Toony Sturk” he’s STILL fucking boiling that PayPal canned him because he’s actually terrible at everything. He then proceeds to start sniffing his own farts, building rescue submarines that would never work, calling people “pedo guys”, impregnating every woman that will take the payoff to have his moron seed implanted in them, moving to Texas and wearing a fucking cowboy hat to show how much of a REEL MAYUN he is (despite the fact that fucking nobody wears a cowboy hat in this state outside of actual cowboys and people that want to announce that they’re fucking idiots to everyone).

    He renames Twitter to X so trigger his nostalgia balls and then a few months later announces he’s going to replace banks with X. Which would also, theoretically, replace PayPal.

    He really is nothing more than a little bitch that happens to have money.

  • hiddengoat@kbin.socialtoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Face search company Clearview AI overturns UK privacy fine
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    11 months ago

    Just using the information you have posted publicly in various places someone that has access to the right sources could pick your rather unique mobile device out of a haystack with very little issue. Doing so would give them location data that, combined with a number of hobbies you mention, would give them a reasonable assumption of a few different places you could be found in a given area. From that point it’s down to either obtaining surveillance video or, more readily, just trawling the background of photos that are tagged with that location and using physical descriptors you’ve used to determine which individual is you.

    And from there it’s just a matter of tracing other appearances you made in other people’s photos and surveillance video.

    They already have you, whether you want them to or not.

  • hiddengoat@kbin.socialtoChat@beehaw.org•uBlock Origin VS YouTube's Anti-Adblock
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    11 months ago

    I would imagine that most people aren’t on YouTube except when people send them links to videos. Once they deactivate their ad blocker to watch a three minute cat video and get four preroll ads and a couple of midrolls they’ll immediately turn their ad blocker off or just never come back.

    This diminishes engagement, doing the exact opposite of what they’re trying to accomplish.

    By all accounts YouTube is profitable, it’s just owned by greedy cunts.