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[–] TropicalDingdong 161 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just like youtube, they think they made this.

What they don't get is that they are actually passengers on other peoples creativity.

It'll be fine. Just need to keep investing in opensource, openaccess alternatives.

We guccii.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (2 children)

YouTube at least has the advantage of being really fucking hard to replace by an independent third party. Whereas Reddit is an extremely easy formula to copy and requires minimal server costs.

[–] TropicalDingdong 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean, floatplane is pretty much there.

Not to mention peertube, which, well, isnt there, but could get there.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Nether of those can replace youtube

[–] Delphia 17 points 1 year ago

Floatplane is nowhere near close. Floatplane is only good for established creators with dedicated fanbases who are willing to pay, although admittedly it is really good for that. There are ways FP could start to encroach on YT but its still a long way off.

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[–] EuroNutellaMan 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Is that even legal according to the GDPR?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Legitimate interest" is used to cover a wide range of bullshit. I've seen it in a shop that had facial recognition cameras, they had a little sign by the tills that said "We use facial recognition for crime prevention and legitimate interest purposes" without even a clear way of opting out.

[–] EuroNutellaMan 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

True but you can still disable it and I think they're required to let you disable it

[–] TheYear2525 38 points 1 year ago (4 children)

On today’s episode of Stroke Or Drunk

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Could be stroking it. Might be a jurisprudence fetishist and get off on technicalities.

[–] EuroNutellaMan 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It was my phone shitting itself ok? You silly little mean bug

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Third option: their phone is having a stroke.

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

If wearing a mask is not against the law, then it is probably appropriate to wear a mask to protect privacy..

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This was a gas station, so they require motorcyclists to take helmets off. Post-covid you could probably argue for wearing a mask, though if you were wearing a balaclava I think they might ask you to lower it. The law doesn't much matter here as they're a private business and can dictate terms of service.

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

last time it was discussed they said they were leaving the option in "certain regions", which probably means EU and maybe California.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

Enshitification is like a law of the universe at this point. It shouldn't surprise anyone.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The image doesn't load for me

[–] Rentlar 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Rentlar 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The OP link has a weird reddit URL thing at the beginning...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Reddit is kind if weird with that stuff. I just stick to lemmy because if that

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

For some reason the image does not load in Jerboa

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Put simply, these massive companies and their server farms are going to have to figure out how to make money. That's why I think the fediverse and it's more decentralized, volunteer, donation based nature is going to be the future of a free and open internet, even if it continues to become a smaller minority of the internet.

[–] ChunkMcHorkle 23 points 1 year ago

Oh, well, that's a bit late, since I already used uBlock Origin to deselect the categories of ads that I do not wish to see (all), and then used my feet to deselect the Reddit I do not wish to see (all).

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] EdibleFriend 10 points 1 year ago

I've had this issue on Lemmy for a long time. Certain images come and go.

[–] btaf45 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Not for me. But like others said, it seems to come and go.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have that issue a lot on iOS.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Maybe its because its a link to reddit

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Well it's not like they didn't collect the data before this. They just didn't target ads to you based on it.

[–] Adalast 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had a fantasy about this earlier. That there was actual legislation that elucidated the right to decide what advertisements we saw in our lives, and that "none" had to be an option that was actually meant you never saw another fucking add.

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

It's a nice fantasy, but I'm sure some sites would actually collapse. I'd prefer it and I think it would be more realistic if there were legislation capping the amount and formats of advertising that could be displayed on a webpage or over a certain period of time to an IP address. No more double ads before every video and every ten minutes within - it's currently getting to be as bad as cable TV used to be, and I don't know what hosting user-created content costs these days but I'm sure it's cheaper than what cable companies had to pay to buy content from studios for broadcast and then actually broadcast it.

[–] confluence 2 points 1 year ago

Sites that must abuse our boundaries to not collapse, should collapse.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Where've you been? I got this message a few weeks ago.

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

Stuff like this tends to be rolled out in groups.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if I wanted to since the death of third party apps I haven't had a reason to use or have a reddit account. I didn't care enough to bother with the work around to get them working either. Glad rss still works, but pretty much why messages like that are news I find out through here.

[–] Serinus 2 points 1 year ago

I'm tempted to go log into my account to get the message. I know I had that setting turned off.

[–] Rentlar 5 points 1 year ago

Not on Reddit, that's for sure.

[–] TrickDacy 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah this was all over Lemmy weeks ago...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Guys, let me ask a question.

How can you hide your comments from others seeing them?

I started thinking about this possibility when I came across people's profiles where comments were hidden. (Also, when clicking on “Send message” this option was not available.)

I found the "Content visibility" and "Active in communities visibility" items in the settings (Account - Profile) and disabled them. Then I checked what my profile looks like from another application where I do not use my account. The result is that all comments are still visible.

How do other users restrict viewing from comments and the ability to message them?

[–] dingus 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If someone blocks you, you can't see their messages. Imo it's dumb because it means you can tell who blocked you. In a sane situation, there shouldn't be a way for people you've blocked to be able to tell that you've blocked them.

[–] banneryear1868 2 points 1 year ago

Some reddit spammers even block users who catch on to them, because it prevents people from outing them as a spammer in the comments.

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[–] confluence 5 points 1 year ago

Reddit: "We're going to make this place about selling you shit."

The Squatting Redditor: "That's perfectly fine. Reddit is still the same. It's still awesome. Right, guys??"

Lemmy tell ya something. Reddit was awesome because it wasn't a platform geared toward optimizing profit.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So can I opt out of all categories of ads then?

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

They still collecting and selling your shit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If they do it like Instagram, you have no control over the categories that get added and you can only opt out of one at a time, meaning the process will be extremely tedious and has to be regularly done.

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