Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

Post by Blikkentrekker » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 2:06 AM UTC

meibo wrote: post #298

Blikkentrekker wrote: post #200

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> The ban on porn is defensible outside of any moral framework because once you allow porn then all what's left is porn (although it would be useful to think about why that is). Reddit and 8chan allow the creation of pornography subboards and never even approached that state.

That's because they both allow for creation of very segregated sub-groups that don't inherently interact. You won't see a lot of porn on /r/all because Reddit doesn't want you to, even though at least 50% of Reddit is porn, it's just bad for business. It's basically a "mini internet".

Post by _23sd » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 2:09 AM UTC

elihu wrote: post #293

horsawlarway wrote: post #217

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Good - There's a clear theme in the motivations of both major mobile OS companies here: You, a 3rd party developer making custom software products for a mobile platform, are no longer allowed to have customers yourself. Instead you must grovel and beg and pray that our lords Apple/Google consent to allow you to rent their customers. This consent can be revoked at any time, you will pay through the nose for it (20%+ o…

What's currently stopping some third party from creating a fork of Android with a better store? Are there closed-source parts of Android that can't be easily replicated? Is it the difficulty of getting any major phone manufacturers to agree to install it? Or something else or all of the above?

Post by baud147258 » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 2:13 AM UTC

nitrogen wrote: post #136

ttt0 wrote: post #115

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I wonder, why people suddenly forgot that adblockers are a thing?

Because they like the channels they watch and want them to get ad revenue?

Post by kokada » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 2:53 AM UTC

gaius_baltar wrote: post #239

Hamuko wrote: post #68

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Definitely. For example, MTBB's subtitles for Kimi no Na wa are very impressive. There's a short showcase of them on YouTube (spoilers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_c-eKTisI0 It's a shame you basically cannot get anything close to the quality of fansubs from any commercial/legal options.

> It's a shame you basically cannot get anything close to the quality of fansubs from any commercial/legal options. Fansubbers work for the shows they love while the commercial distributors just pick the cheapest option to get the thing done ASAP, don't matter how sh*tty the result is. There is no chance for quality here. The same happens with Blurays x rips streams: piracy is the best option (no DRM, no unskippable…

Post by jaspax » Tue, Jan 26, 2021, 3:26 AM UTC

handoflixue wrote: post #203

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Religion's got nothing to do with it. Racial slurs are a subset of "profanity", and I wager that you support Google's desire to not have apps in their store which prominently feature racial slurs. Every culture has its "bad words" which are forbidden to use in polite company. (Of course the actual app in question is still completely innocent, because Google's vetting process is a trash fire.)

It seems disingenuous to bring up racial slurs in the context of profanity. They're two very different categories, even if they are both subsets of "words that can get you in trouble." As you acknowledge, the app in question was blocked for profanity, not slurs. As parent comment says, profanity seems to be mostly a religious issue. I can say "fuck" on TV, or in my novel, or even in my Hacker News comment. But I doub…