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[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

because they can use higher viewer numbers to increase the price of the ad space they charge to advertisers.

How does that actually work when the advertisers know people aren't going to see the ad?

[–] [email protected] -1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The money doesn't come from Youtube. They're not a big company because of youtube. They bought youtube.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Some piracy sites do have accounts, just mostly small-scale.

Most of this complaint really doesn't have to do with piracy...I mean a lot of account sites don't even have anything to pirate.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Just a reminder that the popular vote was:
Donald Trump: 62,984,828
Hillary Clinton: 65,853,514

A difference of only 3 million, in a vote with 127m

Now this is not to say the electoral college is not an issue here, it certainly is. But even by the standards of the popular vote it was a close race. It is important to stress to people their vote matters because you don't want people to be wishy washy, getting this close, in a race as important as this...cause this is precisely the kind of situation where yeah, it's very likely the electoral college could come into play.

Basically people act like it was a landslide, but we should be encouraging people to make it an actual landslide next time. Because chances are even in a system where an alternate voting element could mess things up, the popular vote will get in the way if it's strong enough.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's really people trying to take a high ground and feel better about themselves.

They want to know they made a choice where the person they wanted was right. Even if that person doesn't win, and the person who does win happens to be a person who makes it even harder for them to get what they actually wanted in the future.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Does it? I'd imagine it just makes sense that the tech used for AI in art would be used for art.

I don't see how it would be used for labor without a bunch of other steps.

And as also pointed out, there's tech that, while not specifically "AI", is used to replace labor.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The trick is to make it so their product isn't reliable enough to use. Then they care.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

That was a good Super Eyepatch Wolf vid.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm sure there isn't, but it feels like that kind of wording should be reportable to someone

They reworded it to make it seem like it was the adblocker's fault you were losing friend posts, speaking as if the ads were a second thought

When adblockers don't actually target posts, meaning facebook would have to be the ones doing it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The number of people involved in the decisions of companies: many of which do not have any actual reason to care about the livelihood, reputation, or ethics of said company...should make it fairly clear that you cannot assume or perceive a company in the same way you do a person.

Most of that's just lobbying PR anyway to give companies more leverage against...well...people

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Redemption implies there was a character to redeem.

It's a business, and it's business is intricately locked into goals that match what Web Integrity API stood for. It may be gone now but everyone needs to watch twice as hard. They'll just try to ease people into the idea more carefully.

[–] [email protected] 88 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What a weird way to thank someone

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