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Youtube's Anti-adblock is illegal in the EU (eupolicy.social)

Pfizer says it will price Covid treatment Paxlovid at nearly $1,400 for a five-day course, which researchers estimate only costs Pfizer $13 to produce. That's a 10,000%+ markup. Shameful. (mastodon.world)

Unity deleted these terms, don't let them get out (lemmy.today)

From The Internet Archive: web.archive.org/…/Unity Software Additional Terms…

The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet (gadgettendency.com)

The Firefox browser now has a built-in page translator that works even without the Internet::Mozilla has announced the release of an update to its Firefox browser. In version number 118, users will find a significant innovation - a built-in translator

Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble (mashable.com)

YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers (www.androidauthority.com)

cross-posted from: lemdro.id/post/2883134 (!android)

Hell freezes over, MS Paint adds support for layers and PNG transparency (arstechnica.com)

Automated background removal was also added recently.

Goodbye Youtube and thanks for all the fish (infosec.pub)

Youtube let the other shoe drop in their end-stage enshittification this week. Last month, they required you to turn on Youtube History to view the feed of youtube videos recommendations. That seems reasonable, so I did it. But I delete my history every 1 week instead of every 3 months. So they don’t get much from my choices....

I hate how everything requires you to download a shitty proprietary data harvesting app nowadays when everything can be done just fine without an app.

I have recently started a new position and am required to use an app that has three Facebook trackers, one of them being a Facebook location tracker according to Exodus App Privacy in order to get your food when it would literally work perfectly fine ordering to a real cashier or shit even a website rather than having to...

Mozilla review of 25 car brands finds they're "a privacy nightmare" (foundation.mozilla.org)

Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase. (lemmy.world)

We are contacting you regarding a past Prime Video purchase(s). The below content is no longer playable on Prime Video....

BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated Them (www.thedrive.com)

BMW Is Giving Up on Heated Seat Subscriptions Because People Hated Them::The blowback worked—but subscriptions for software-based new car features will continue, according to a BMW board member.

Reddit abandons user privacy - Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)

I left a couple of months ago. Couldn’t be happier....

Spotify re-invented the radio (lemmy.world)

Can’t even seek through songs.

The average car purchased in 2023 emits higher levels of carbon dioxide (CO₂) than its 2013 equivalent. This is due to the large proportion of SUVs in the mix, which tend to be bigger and heavier. (english.elpais.com)

Google Flat-Out Refuses to Bargain With Workers, Prompting YouTube Music Strike (www.vice.com)

Chrome not proceeding with Web Integrity API deemed by many to be DRM (9to5google.com)

The Chrome team says they’re not going to pursue Web Integrity but…...

Unity Silently Deletes GitHub Repo that Tracks Terms of Service Changes and Updated Its License - GamerBraves (www.gamerbraves.com)

FTC judge rules Intuit broke law, must stop advertising TurboTax as “free” (arstechnica.com)

It’s about time that Intuit was called out for their scam. Hopefully, the attempt to stop the federal tax filing will get dismissed as well.

X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called (arstechnica.com)

X revokes paid blue check from United Auto Workers after strike called::After a report called out Musk’s union-busting, UAW’s blue check got reinstated.

NASA Plus Streaming: "our new ad-free, no cost, family-friendly streaming service unlocks our Emmy award-winning live coverage, embeds you into our missions through new original video series" (www.nasa.gov)

New evidence confirms COVID-19 vaccines are overwhelmingly safe (www.theglobeandmail.com)

New evidence confirms COVID-19 vaccines are overwhelmingly safe::More than 38 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in Ontario as of Oct. 8, with 23,002 reports of adverse reactions, an incidence of 0.06 per cent, Public Health Ontario says

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