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[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 month ago (4 children)

With the change in political atmosphere I suspect they're going to get a lot more leeway to do things we don't care for. I wonder if they could lobby to make ad blocking illegal.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It seems like it's already beginning. For one, Firefox is getting blocked more and more often as being "out of date" (it's not) while a chromium-based browser is fine. My VPN keeps getting flagged as malicious (PIA). It's getting really irritating.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I use PIA a lot, But yeah a lot of VPNs are getting flagged as malicious these days, to be fair there's a lot of malicious people doing things on them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Google purposely gives you an issue when you use their search engine with a VPN. when that happens I say fuck your capcha and use duck duck go

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

Long live the Duck

or SearX, which by proxy uses the duck and whoever else :P

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I recently dropped PIA because of it, super annoying.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I find it infuriating that the "free market" doesn't let me bid on an empty ad slot on my own videos and instead makes me pay a flat rate monthly fee.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

That's what people are doing with sponsored segments.

My gut is that if Peertube had an ad marketplace that content providers would flock to it. But ODYSEE already failed at monetization. And then you'd have to have some kind of guardrails in place to keep people from hosting pirated* movies for $$$.

edit: voice dictation sucks :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

No, I mean videos I'm watching. Let me pay the fraction of a cent myself.

[–] ayyy 1 points 1 month ago

They tried that, it was called Google Contributor. Nobody actually put their money where their mouth was and they shut it down.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I wonder if someone can "buy" records of Trump's internet habits

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm fairly certain he just tell you if you got him doing his rambling thing.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Just have someone ask him what kind of 'nasty things he thinks democrats use the internet for.' He'll start rattling off things that are way too specific and definitely projection.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

You can. They made that legal in 2019.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He doesn't know how to use the internet, he only knows how to post on twitter

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

coffefe hambrudereed bigly beeeblll mein kampf....

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Hopefully by then we have full mirrors of YT. Maybe PeerTube would be viable replacement

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

full mirrors of YT

Yeah...not going to happen.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

I don’t think peertube will ever truly be successful, because hosting and distributing video content is just extremely expensive as it is so large.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I think the biggest barrier on peer tube is the lack of easy monetization. Your average content maker is not ready to seek out a sponsorship and maintain that relationship. Vast majority of content we have out there is because people are seeking to make a few bucks.