“What if… what if i found a way to combine apathy in the face of tragedy and misogyny into the same situation? I bet that would be so funny. Lol. I would even go so far as to say Lmao. This might even be worth a Rofl.”
“The internet is gonna fucking love me. Comedy GOD, they’ll say. Pinnacle of humor; the rest of humor has ended, they’ll say. Edgy humor has won, and hilarious edgelords will rule the world. Nothing will be funny anymore unless it hurts at least someone. Humor will only exist through mistreatment of others, as god intended, and i will finally be praised for my hilarious ability to be a complete asshole devoid of empathy.”
It’s the Amazon model the French were fighting against.
Amazon killed a lot of retail by offering cheap / below cost shipping and at cost goods to attract customers and squeeze out brick and mortar retailers. Now that Amazon has hooked people and retailers have gone out of business, Amazon raised prices. The deals arent there and the products are more expensive.
These dark stores would have undercut real grocery stores until there were far fewer physical stores. Then, once people relied on them, they would have jacked up the delivery fees, reduced the variety of goods and charged as much as an in person grocery used to.
Not even counting the wage slaves working for these kind of businesses. They’re usually contractors like Uber and most of the time they’re undocumented and underpaid immigrants. It’s practically modern slavery for the convenience of the few. Fuck those predatory bastards.
Amazon is pretty much charging retail prices now. They don’t list the retail price anymore if it’s too close to the sale price. If it’s on sale they’ll list it though.
I haven’t followed the Netflix password news all that closely because I barely ever use Netflix - but when I do use it it’s through password sharing an account my sister pays for. That worked as recently as just a week ago.
If someone is actively watching something and a second person logs in to the same account and starts watching something, Netflix recognizes it within a minute and displays a message to the second person that logged in stating that someone is already logged in to the account.
As long as you’re not watching at the same time as each other, you should be good to go.
That’s not how it works. You will be forced to set a “home” for your account, which then IP locks your account for stationary devices. Anyone else not on that IP and not on a mobile device won’t be able to watch.
IMO this is not surprising, I actually considered buying stock in Netflix, because they were so low.
I’m guessing the ones to complain the most, were the ones who were at the free end of those shared passwords.
I don’t use Netflix myself, but adding advertising for slightly cheaper subscriptions, and ending password sharing, seemed like an almost guaranteed win for Netflix to me. At least in the short term.
People here may disagree and find it outrageous, but most people probably don’t care enough to make a big deal out of it, and will simply choose the option that suit their needs best.
Some people really have nothing to do with their lives, do they? They don't even need racists from abroad when they can kill and discriminate against each other.
I’m not surprised. The number of people sharing accounts who now need their own was always likely to be greater than the number who were going to cancel. They only had to convert a fraction of the non-subdividing viewers for it to work out in their favour. I think they’ll find they have less viewers now, though.
The approach of tacitly allowing account sharing to build viewership then cracking down on it to boost revenue is smart enough as a business strategy. It signals what most of these companies will do when it comes time to really monetise.
I worry for the future of the internet when YouTube and Google really kick off. It’s going to be a subscription hellscape (it is already, but it’s going to be so much worse).
The approach of tacitly allowing account sharing to build viewership then cracking down on it to boost revenue is smart enough as a business strategy. It signals what most of these companies will do when it comes time to really monetise.
It’s less extreme than Hulu’s method of going from an all free service to a subscription service. When you think about it from Hulu’s perspective there’s no way they would make less money and unlike social media sites like Twitter or Facebook the users’ labor isn’t the content. The movies and tv shows are.
I don’t have a link for it, but I read that YouTube is working on a 3 strikes policy for anyone using AdBlock programs… So after the 3rd warning you’re not able to watch anything on YouTube at all…
Background for those who don’t know: ElSis came to power after a coup against Islamic regime . hehass only military education with no knowlage of economy, politics, diplomacy nor even ability to speak any language beside his mother tongue. Despite that he has massive ego as well as mentioning he communicate with God.
His policy for solving all internal problems is imprisoning / killing while forgein policy is mostly focused on trying not to piss anyone off.
Al-Baqer was a lawyer for a very prominent Egyptian figure Alla Abdul fattah. A well educated, well known activist (both in politics and in promoting Linux / open source). Anyway, AlBaqer was arrested while being in police station with his client Alla Abdul fattah.
The charges are standard and unified for all political arrested: abusing social media channels, joining terrorist group, spreading false news.
Patrick George was arrested for complaining about cases of oppression against Christians. Same standard charges.
Why they are being released is because elSisi is becoming weaker and weaker as the economy is taking deep dive to oblivion due to lot of bad economical decisions from his part
Average daily Sign-ups to Netflix reached 73k during that period, a +102% increase from the prior 60-day average. […] Cancels also increased during this period, but not as much as Sign-ups. The ratio of Sign-ups to Cancels since May 23rd is up +25.6% compared to the previous 60-day period.
i’m starting to think they’re not interested in permanent suppression, they’re just buying time. After all, they’re always been interested in short term profit. At this point they’re just reproducing the system until we die by extinction
Alternatively “The asteroid is coming, but we have still time to take measures against it” “Oh my, its faster than expected, we’ll move swiftly!” They, in fact, did move swiftly their houses in remote islands. On top of mountains or other natural shelters
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