PizzaMan

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago

What holds youtube from blocking all videos to addblock users just as other sites do?

It's a constant game of cat and mouse, an arms race till the end of time. You can't block videos from ad-block users if you can't tell which users are using adblock and which are not.

I don’t understand why self hosted videos aren’t more popular

It's quite complicated technologically, and requires quite a lot of storage space. Viewers only go where the creators go, and the creators have no reason to go to someplace that is more of a pain in the ass to host videos.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

Shit like that is also a far, far better use of airspace/resources

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

It's not a perfect replacement, and I never claimed as such. But for most people's needs, gimp is perfectly capable.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (5 children)

That, and Gimp is quite a capable photo editing tool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

While the moon has basically no atmosphere, I don't think it would matter much. Plenty of lunar dust would get blown around by the force of the engines, and the mass or that dust would contribute. Beyond that, the exhaust itself has a lot of force, and is probably plenty.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HQfauGJaTs

Look at the Apollo missions taking off, it's quite violent for the surround area.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

That is basically what is going on. We do technically have representation in the same way La Croix has taste.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

More or less, yeah

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (9 children)

People have tried with minimal success to do something like this IIRC.

The biggest problem is that corporate America has shit loads of cash. So much so that even if Americans were to pull the money together, it just wouldn't compete.

The solution is to vote politicians into power that don't accept bribes and are willing to criminalize them.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago (11 children)

Gotta love a bribery based legislature system.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Eventually they'll just shut down the APIs that allow that to happen just like reddit did. There will still be workarounds to that, but it will make things harder.

The thing I worry about is if they go so far as to ban people's google accounts for violating the TOS like this. I'm sure they can find out exactly who is doing it through an IP lookup even if you are using a front-end client.

It's best to migrate everything off google accounts now before that happens. Google has too much power.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

They're capitalists. It's what they do.

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