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Inside the 'arms race' between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies. (www.engadget.com)

Inside the ‘arms race’ between YouTube and ad blockers / Against all odds, open source hackers keep outfoxing one of the wealthiest companies.::YouTube’s dramatic content gatekeeping decisions of late have a long history behind them, and there’s an equally long history of these defenses being bypassed.

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That’s a big if though. Unless an actual creator-exodus happens, it’s not going to happen.

Mysterious woman tells school board that Scholastic book sparked porn addiction (popular.info)

Burkhardt's gambit has already had an impact. The Conroe school board, after listening to her story, voted to restrict access to Drama, the Scholastic book featuring a kiss, from all students in the 8th grade and below. One of the school board members, Melissa Dungan, suggested replacing Scholastic with SkyTree Book Fairs. "All...

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Emphasis

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Ah, I did not know that reference

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Oh no, it’s such a low reduction! Might as well do nothing then.

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Except when the amount of cars is an order or two of magnitude greater than those other two, heavy cars do take their toll on the road surface

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So what? When there’s a lot more cars, especially within a city, and when those cars get a lot heavier, it will do a lot more damage.

A semi isn’t going to drive over inner city roads, at least not regularly.

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A small city car (Kia Picanto) weighs about 900 kg (~2000 pounds), a regular Ford Mustang weighs just under twice that, a Mustang Mach E weighs over twice that and then some.

Damage done will go up.

If you take into account the amount of people a bus transports, or the “useful work” a small semi and garbage trucks do, not even a small city car can win in terms of damage done– let alone a monster of a vehicle carrying one to two persons.

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Literally ignoring my points kthxbye

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Except when it’s closed source and on a company server somewhere

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How is that a counter example? The same 3 - 5 corporations are still in control.

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I mean, yeah. A broken clock is right twice a day.

Which I know doesn’t exactly equate to the current situation, but do remember that the point of capitalism isn’t innovation: it’s earning the most amount of money.

Innovation is just a happy little coincidence thanks to competition in a fair market.
When AMD was down in the gutter, Intel was just fine making token “innovation” in the CPU market while mostly taking it easy on the RnD while raking it in. Something they, eventually, got gotten for by AMD and more recently Apple silicon. But now, let’s say, Intel was allowed to buy AMD… Maybe Apple still would’ve switched to their own designs eventually, but PC’s undoubtedly would still be stuck on 4, maybe 6 cores.

Monopolies are the anthesis of innovation, and monopolies are what corporations will move towards without adequate regulation.

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You can get Google to pay you through Play Rewards!

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If only there was a mode of transport where you could watch videos.

Not just that, one that would be safer for the environment and cause for less traffic jams!

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It’s a publicly traded company. They will never care as much about their users as they do about their bottom line

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Unnecessary cost, obviously ^/s

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Perhaps, but the seasonal events “complete this grind now or get locked out forever” FOMO bs is very much a new thing, at least in how widespread it is.

In, idk, classic Final Fantasy games you could quit whenever and resume exactly where you left off months down the line. Today games demand your attention like they never really did before.

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Imagine owning anything, anything you “buy” is just a perpetual license ever so graciously offered to you by MegaCorp, ready to be changed or taken away whenever they feel like they need even more money.

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What do you mean? The GDP has only grown (save for like 2-3 quarters).

The rich just saw their chance to become even richer and widen the wealth gap.

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Forgive my terrible sources, at least I had something rather than throwing a random claim to the void.

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Yes. No doubt the economy took a hit at the start/height of the pandemic, but using that as a blanket statement to explain the linked article is unsubstantiated.

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Could also read the article.

The poorest 40% of households suffered an 8% drop in cash savings and the middle 40% (the U.S. middle class) also saw their bank deposits and other liquid assets topple. Only the wealthiest 20% of households are still enjoying the extra cash they stockpiled during the pandemic, with their savings about 8% above where they were in March 2020.

Given the American wealth distribution in 2023, just the top 10% of people hold 69% of wealth.
The article mentions the top 20% saw their savings increase.
I think it’s fair to extrapolate that America “as a whole” got richer (e.g. the economy is “doing better”), at the small cost of 80-90% of its inhabitants.

The pandemic has been a disaster for the average person, yet the wealthy used it as another opportunity to exploit them.

^(sidenote, “stockpiled” is a very apt descriptor…)

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And basically required if you want to have a job in the US…

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I edited my other reply for a bit more context, in case you missed it.

That said, maybe I misunderstood your claim and with “the economy” you were referring to the prosperity of the average person.

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Switch off Google, how about that?

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Don’t forget Apple’s ad revenue soared when they made users be able to opt out of tracking.

And, oh, right! Their own tracking setting was (and probably still is) hidden in the App store of all places because of course they don’t have to play by their own rules.

(Meaning they’re already on their way there)

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Just because there’s worse, doesn’t mean we should accept bad.

Why Mozilla is betting on a decentralized social networking future (techcrunch.com)

The mission-driven tech company behind the Firefox browser, Pocket reader and other apps is now investing its energy into the so-called “fediverse” — a collection of decentralized social networking applications, like Mastodon, that communicate with one another over the ActivityPub protocol.

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Edge allows you to “follow” YouTube channels outside of the website itself, not sure how deep that integration goes though as I’ve never bothered to use it.

Also this is the idea behind Grayjay, where creators would be able to have a “universal identity” across platforms.
For now it’s mostly a YouTube and some other video streaming sites alternative.

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That request can be used for fingerprinting, however.

www.amiunique.org/fingerprint

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On Samsung phones you can make stickers just the same way you can on iPhone, with the stock gallery app.

Dunno about Google Photos.

In fact, here it is without the background:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e3d93d67-949f-49eb-9185-2b8c2f6ea169.png

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Depending on what I’m doing I may have to tap it several times. And I don’t like needing to move my hands around my phone to reach the top of the screen.

So many apps feature some sort of bottom nav bar anyway these days, and with the tiniest amount of scrolling it’s out of sight and out of mind.

Oh I missed a bit on the page and want to scroll back up? Why would I want the address bar to pop up first over the text that’s there!

I’m speaking a bit hyperbolically of course, though I genuinely see no benefit in the address bar being at the top. (Also Firefox all the way baybeee)

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Is the X a pun?

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I’m well aware, but in this context it gets a bit of double meaning

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Strongly disagree.

If artists don’t want their data, their art being scraped by giant machines without any human oversight for profit they should be within their right to opt out. If they cannot opt out, why not poison the ill-gotten gains.

If the corporations behind these Machine Learning Algorithms were altruistic or open source, like Wikipedia is, perhaps I’d see your point. But not wanting your art to be sucked into a black hole to then be sold to others without credit or compensation I find more than fair.

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Someone else using my work as inspiration is different from ripping my works off.

A machine learning algorithm falls in the latter category in my opinion.

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With the opt-out bit I was trying to get at consent, I should’ve worded that better.

I don’t know what exact argument to use, but a machine using art to “learn” feels very different from a human doing the same.

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I should look into using said algorithms?

I know what they can do, but if that’s through ripping off the work of others I’m not sure I like it.

Would you pay an artist if you knew their work was traced?

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I know how to get my hands on things. Just because I haven’t used it doesn’t mean I can’t form an opinion on the ethics behind it.

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Same energy “oh you don’t like capitalism? Then why do you participate in it”.

Just because someone wants to share their work with others online doesn’t mean others should be allowed to indiscriminately absorb it into their black box.

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What the fuck are you on about. Do you have some sort of superiority complex?

I don’t need to prove my knowledge to you just because I haven’t generated any images myself. I can be aware of all the other applications and limitations of such a tool. I’m not arguing that it isn’t useful.

I’m arguing artists should have a say in whether their work gets absorbed into the black box or not. And if they don’t get that choice, fair on them for trying to poison the system. Shouldn’t have taken without asking if you didn’t want that to happen.

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I didn’t miss that part. You’re free to do with your art whatever you want.

But just because you are okay with your art getting repurposed for whatever doesn’t mean others have to be.
And if the library were to store a copy of my book it’d come with royalties and credit, unlike whatever is going on with image generators.

Now if libraries were to stock an illegal copy of my book, I’d get pretty pissed about that. If they did that to all of the other writers as well I wouldn’t even have to burn it down because the lawyers would do it for me.
But lone artists on the internet don’t have a massive publisher to back them up.

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Please quote me the part where I said or implied I hate libraries.

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And no, DaVinci doesn’t. That’s why copyright expires and items go into the public domain after a set amount of years.

A “set” amount of years massive corporations have been all too happy to push back, but that’s another conversation.

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I have, at no point, implied legitimate businesses/organizations should be burned down.

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If AI were a librarian I’d be able to go there and find the works of whatever artists they kept copies of. Last I checked, that is not the case. Are you sure you know how these machine learning algorithms work?

If the AI is set fire to, all of the artists still keep their individual works or art on whatever websites they were before they got scraped.

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I’m OK with libraries getting sued for ripping off writers/artists.

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Nah I think you’re the one who doesn’t know

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Consent is granted by your purchase/borrowing of the book, that’s how that works.

If you acquired the text through unintended means I doubt the author would (generally) consent to your reading of it.

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No such luck here

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Oh but PragerU is now recognised in Florida and will be permitted in schools!

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