I’m under the impression that Google deliberately hinders their YouTube platform just because you have ad-blockers. With videos taking time to buffer, seems to signal this, because it almost makes up nearly the amount of time for when ads take if you had to watch them. So since you’re ad-blocking and they don’t like that, they’ll make your experience miserable until you want to pay their service or not use ad-block.

  • Seasm0ke@lemmy.world
    10·
    1 day ago

    The AI bubble is actually a cover used by cloud providers to engage in racketeering. I assume that it is encouraged by the alphabet agencies to setup a network that aggregates advertiser data to match up browser fingerprints and spy on Americans in mass without warrants. The ram shortage was engineered to force adoption for the cloud primarily for small business and sectors that have avoided it due to cost. Retail is a casualty and gaming is next. They don’t care about AI, its just the wrench that tightens the bolt

    • Hossenfeffer@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      16 hours ago

      I have an HP printer. The HP app on my laptop used to be able to scan documents and so on. Last time I opened it, the only way to use this was to scan my document into the HP Cloud and then download it from there. Fuck. That. Shit.

      Fortunately my PDF reader can initiate the scan directly, so I’ll be just deleting that HP app.

    • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
      3·
      1 day ago

      I am praying this is wrong SO MUCH.

      I’m happy seeing so many kids getting into retro hardware and actual computing and physical media and stuff. We should tighten that bolt.

      As much trouble as we’ve got, I REALLY will not live in this “everything is just a terminal to The Cloud™” world. It’s disgusting.

        • MonkeMischief@lemmy.today
          1·
          13 hours ago

          Exactly like a Chromebook. Those stupid things were (are?) such a coordinated landfill and education-decimating campaign.

          With my mom in law’s, I had to go through so much crap to overwrite the bootloader using some saint’s scripts just so I could put Linux on it. The stupid thing (an Asus) actually said “We’re done updating this thing. Buy a new one. Lol.”

          The way they foisted that Temu-grade hardware on impoverished schoolsystems across the country is disgusting.