Have you heard of adblocking?
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Honestly good on them for keeping the spirit alive for just about everyone who isn't a direct competitor of theirs.
Let them make some money to continue to fund it. They even invalidated all sponsorships because of the license change.
Unless you personally were willing to fund whatever they make on their integration, then this is an ok play in my book.
I've always wanted to meet that 1 out of the 10 who don't. Probably would be interesting to have a beer with.
Corporate executives love using the word pause to allow the possibility for a resume. It also makes it not a failure since it never finishes negatively: it is paused.
It's word gymnastics.
I still hope as part of the antitrust ruling, they rip chrome from Google and undo this crap.
I've had good luck with uBlock Lite.
(Yes I could swap browsers but nah).
And if self hosting bitwarden seems tough, look at vaultwarden instead. It's a one-container all in one bitwarden-compatible container.
There's another free video editor called shotcut. Give it a try, works great.
I know this may come off as a surprise: but I imagine that requiring JS in 2024 isn't a big deal to most people.
Now of course Lemmy skews more into that small crowd.
I don't blame any website for requiring JS for full functionality in 2024.
Thankfully we can federate bot posts to make that easier :P
This reminds me of when a coworker wrote a protocol around sending encrypted messages back and forth inside of gchat to control another PC.
The reason was that: our company firewall doesn't let stuff go in directly, but we have internet.
I thought that was a nutty tos violation.
Each system had a Google account and would login and listen for messages from the controller.
A Google search later: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/privacy-and-control-over-your-recall-experience-d404f672-7647-41e5-886c-a3c59680af15
All local. Nothing sent. You can choose to not believe it, but it's deceptive to imply they don't say it's local.
If you don't believe them it's one thing but they said what they said.
Duh fuq.
I wonder how many people would give their social that easily.