I really dislike that guy. I was interested in his website but lost interest because of him. I already forgot why I started disliking him. But this just adds to that.

Sure buddy.

You should have said “sure buddy” and ignored them.

He is being charged with W R O N G T H I N K.

🥁

I mean for the big software boys to actually start caring about it.

This feels like a scam just like those Elon Musk crypto scams you see everywhere.

It’s pretty sad how not having the money for it makes it unbearable, while all of them don’t need to experience it, disconnecting them from their practices.

They also take a cut from content purchases and tips to content creators.

https://help.odysee.tv/payments-chart/

The article implies nobody even knew it already had this functionality. I’m sure the customers weren’t told either.

They kept trying to ruin my experience so I’ve switched to Invidious and Odysee.

Invidious only for the content creators that don’t crosspost to Odysee yet.

Every video ad needs to have the video uploaded to YouTube afaik. So it’s possible to find it, although I’m not sure if it also works for private videos.

I am the admin of a website where we have a place where our users can post custom content and rate the content of others.

We have discussed how it works and should work many times and came to the conclusion that we’d never want it to be public. Any report of abuse will be checked by the website owner directly in the database and even admins don’t have full access. Everybody tries to stay as far away from the personal ratings as possible.

We also noticed that it would be a lot more fragile when there are not many voters. A whole group that is negative about something wouldn’t get as much harassment as a single person having a unique opinion.

On our website we have a comment section that isn’t anonymous, and we even noticed that people often don’t post something negative when it would be obvious that they are the only one who has voted/rated something. (“Negative” is almost always constructive in our case)

These are just a few things that I think add to this discussion.

Making a browser addon/extension wouldn’t be too hard if you can get the data somewhere. And then it’s just a click of a button to get the functionality.

Hence why I gave a solution. It would simply become spam that should be handled by the instance where it originates from.

What if an instance sends 1000 fake hashes as votes?

What’s the difference from users though?

You’d give each user an anonymous vote ID that only the instance can link back to their username.

It should actually be made more private.

Looking at the IP logs of the users on a website of mine shows that many people are already using IPv6 alongside IPv4. Some ISPs even don’t use IPv4 anymore unless you pay extra (Germany/Austria)

I just moved to Linux and started fresh.

The big mental change was instead of searching “sony vegas on linux please” I just started searching for “video editing software Linux”, and take any possible limitations and live with them, as I know it’s only temporary until Linux catches on.

App Stores are responsible for their content. If google simply vets the app store developers and their team and their product, they should have some kind of trust that whatever that app store supplies will be up to standards. But on the other hand, it’s actually none of their business to hold my hand for me when I want to do stuff with my device.

It’s more about getting the less tech-savy people away from the Play Store. It creates a road that app makers can take to remove the need of Google Services, eventually making gapps fully optional for all.

The last problem you raise seems more like a symptom of a problem than an actual problem. This kind of weird behavior is only possible because Google simply does not care about others. A simple “this app is managed by x” configuration setting would be easy enough to implement in Android.