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[–] gravitas_deficiency 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If that’s real, I’m pretty sure the EU will have something to say about that, as well as the FCC. That’s a flagrant violation of net neutrality.

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

They just slightly increase their budget for legal fines....

[–] You999 2 points 1 year ago

Along with the FTC and DOJ (one can hope)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the FCC going to say?

"Which Barrell would you like us to bend over?"

[–] gravitas_deficiency 0 points 1 year ago

Well Ajit “fuck ajit pai” Pai is gone, so the FCC is actually trying to do its job again

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

YouTube slowly trying to push me off their platform.

I will quit YouTube before watching ads.

[–] UnRelatedBurner 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

quick, question. Would you be willing to pay for a "premium" video hosting website? I'm not doing s study I'm just curious. Caz I think paying isn't the problem it's yt, We know very well that it can survive with moderate ads, but what about a payed platform that has no ads and doesn't sell your data?

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

Shoutout to nebula. Depending on how much content you consume it might not be enough for you, but it's cool to have an independent platform doing stuff.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Nice try reddit.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Huh. I had noticed that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

I fuckin knew it! I could've sworn this was happening. I would switch to brave to watch something and would be able to no problem. Fuckin bastards.

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

If Youtube isn’t allowed to check my browser if I use ublock origin. Is it allowed to check what browser I use and restrict curtain things?

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

the reddit link is trying to force me to log in. Has reddit changed its policies again?

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

The team at the ublock origin sub have found a filter for ublock that disables it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/comments/17tm9rp/comment/k9i62zu/

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I had noticed too. Although I mostly use FreeTube by now I am a tab hoarder and if I open a YouTube tab with a video in Firefox it does take a few seconds until the page is displayed correctly after the tab has finished loading.

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

I've also noticed Revanced needs updated pretty often or it gets fucked. I really don't want to have to switch to an alternative that doesn't allow me to sign in to my account, but I refuse to give in to Alphabets demands.

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

That's interesting, I've only had to update revanced once so far in about a year of use. Would it differ per phone?

[–] Lazz45 1 points 1 year ago

I'm still running one of the early versions completely fine. I wonder what might be different on your end. I would update but I'm honestly unsure the correct way to update revanced