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Post by McDyver »

prince005 wrote: post #174

I fail to understand why people think that YouTube is a charity service. They are a business and act like one, you'd do the same if someone threatens your business.

I don't think that's the issue.

The problem is that YouTube/google want "le beurre, l’argent du beurre, et le sourire de la crémière".

They want to (and are managing) to distort the openness of the web: they provide free access to a service, the way the web intended to be; but don't want people to use the tools in the way they are meant to be used.

If they want to charge for the service, fine, it's their prerogative but don't blame the users for using the tools as they are meant to be used.

Why don't they stop free aceess? They can, no one is stopping them from doing business that way.

Because they want everything, that's why. When will their "business" stop? What's the end goal?

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Post by hospitalJail »

alisonatwork wrote: post #78
hospitalJail wrote: post #15

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I learned about Fdroid because of something like this. Then I learned about Bromium(which is obsolete today, but was a great browser with adblock support)

If you're looking for a Bromite successor, right now best way is to download the uazo builds direct from GitHub: https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools There are some third party tools that will download the releases for you, but I'm fine to just manually pop by the repo whenever ungoogled-chromium[0] updates on my desktop. [0] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

It doesnt have the latest security updates though

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Post by ekianjo »

zirgs wrote: post #171
soraminazuki wrote: post #168

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Snowden was stranded in Russia because his passport was revoked while he was headed towards South America.

He got lucky. South America isn't safe for him either. Look what happened to Assange. The Ecuadorian government changed and they kicked him out of the embassy soon after that. He wasted all those years there for nothing.

Wasted x years not being in prison?

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Post by ekianjo »

vasco wrote: post #142
p-e-w wrote: post #102

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The only countries where American law is irrelevant are Russia, China, North Korea, and Iran. Go anywhere else, and on closer examination you'll find that American law is in fact very relevant, with local governments often bending over backwards to accommodate US legal provisions. Copyright, financial regulation, and international travel are some of the areas where this is usually apparent, but far from the only ones…

Biggest army in the world, also the only reason most of europe has freedom today and not a german dictatorship is the US in WW2. This is something europeans forget when complaining about "outsized" US influence but then also don't invest in defense and keep being safe just by the grace of the US. This comes with a price. PS: I'm from europe

Technically Russia has bled a lot more to defeat Germany than the US but I guess you guys see History thru Call of Duty bullshit propaganda

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Post by ekianjo »

Glawen wrote: post #165
palata wrote: post #153

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And some speak Italian! Small note though: I highly doubt they speak German... that would rather be Swiss-German.

So in Scotland they speak Scottish-English? Irish-english in Ireland? What's your proficiency in these languages ?

Just like Quebecois is not really French

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Post by anakaine »

Glawen wrote: post #165
palata wrote: post #153

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And some speak Italian! Small note though: I highly doubt they speak German... that would rather be Swiss-German.

So in Scotland they speak Scottish-English? Irish-english in Ireland? What's your proficiency in these languages ?

They need not be proficient to understand that Swiss German is distinctly different from German. Its reasonably common knowledge.

Swiss German is based around Alemannic dialects rendering it often and frequently unintelligible to traditional German speakers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_German

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Post by imiric »

midoridensha wrote: post #160
kerkeslager wrote: post #99

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Advertising is inherently immoral and it's our moral obligation to drive advertisers into bankruptcy. All advertisers are liars. Even when they're not directly saying untrue things, they're presenting a one-sided view of the truth, to the extent of being intentionally misleading. The harm done by these lies is incalculable. The distraction. The loss of self-esteem caused by ads always telling us we aren't enough, don…

This is really extreme and reductionist. Without advertising, you wouldn't even know that many products and services exist. You can't rely on word-of-mouth for everything. Of course, so many advertisers have abused their power that blocking ads is a good choice for many reasons, but don't make the mistake of calling all advertising "evil". Without it, how do you know a new movie is coming soon, or that someone's inve…

> Without it, how do you know a new movie is coming soon

By visiting and/or subscribing to cinema listing web sites, subscribing to cinema-related YouTube channels or social media accounts, visiting my local cinema and watching 30 minutes of trailers, seeing cinema listings in the newspaper, or calling Moviefone.

> or that someone's invented and is selling a new computer peripheral

By visiting and/or subscribing to computer-related web sites that announce, review or sell computer peripherals.

None of the advances in advertising in the last 50 years have improved my lifestyle or consumer experience. All it's done is improve the efficiency of manufacturing the need for a product, embedding brand names in the consumer subconscious, and manipulating them into buying a specific product, regardless if it solves their problem, or even if it's detrimental to their wellbeing and health. And since the advent of the internet, adtech is responsible for creating and supporting a user data gold rush, violating the privacy of every internet user in the process, as well as enabling hostile forces to use the same system for information warfare.

So, no, advertising is not a required or even necessary part of society, and is responsible for incalculable damages caused by the harmful products it promotes. The only reason it is so prevalent is because psychological subversion tactics are very effective, and it's the easiest way for companies to increase revenue.

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Post by tommica »

ajsnigrutin wrote: post #189
nine_k wrote: post #66

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Next step would be for the copyright-enforcement industry to sue VPN providers, claiming that they are making excessive profits by letting users sidestep the geofences, and so they must share some of the profits.

> geofences Geofences are a great way to start copyright reform. Bobby from Zambezia downloaded your new X-heroes movie, and you're complaining about piracy losses? How can you claim losses, if you're geofencing your content and don't want Bobby's money?!

Well, Bobby should have thought of that before he so nastily stole from a massive corporation! Why would it be their fault, they didn't want Bobby to watch the movie, because let's face it, Bobby's a bit of an ass.

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Post by alisonatwork »

hospitalJail wrote: post #192
alisonatwork wrote: post #78

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If you're looking for a Bromite successor, right now best way is to download the uazo builds direct from GitHub: https://github.com/uazo/bromite-buildtools There are some third party tools that will download the releases for you, but I'm fine to just manually pop by the repo whenever ungoogled-chromium[0] updates on my desktop. [0] https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

It doesnt have the latest security updates though

So far the uazo builds have only run up to a couple weeks behind Chromium mainline, unlike Bromite which could fall months behind. I'm not sure if there is a better privacy-oriented browser for Android right now if you want just want a stripped back Chromium. The other privacy-oriented browsers all seem to add a bunch of extra stuff.

Re: Newpipe.net removed from Google search results due to DMCA take down request

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Post by qwery »

nine_k wrote: post #66
Jenk wrote: post #51

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> Dear ssyoutube.com User: As you may have heard, our industry has been under strenuous attacks by certain GB copyright holders. Because of these attacks, it has become financially impractical for ssyoutube.com to continue to provide services in the Great Britain. Accordingly, ssyoutube.com will be terminating its services in the Great Britain as of November 3, 2022. We thank you for your past loyalty and patronage a…

Next step would be for the copyright-enforcement industry to sue VPN providers, claiming that they are making excessive profits by letting users sidestep the geofences, and so they must share some of the profits.

It is always amusing to see free marketeers complaining about getting free marketed.
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