What’s bad about (politely) asking for donations? After all, why not let people who really want to support the free software you’re creating do so even if they can’t code?
What’s bad about (politely) asking for donations? After all, why not let people who really want to support the free software you’re creating do so even if they can’t code?
YouTube is/ its ads are are extremely privacy intrusive and there isn’t really an alternative to the platform. Next to the comparatively obvious network effects all social media platforms rely on is also because YouTube on its own is not that profitable and probably only really makes Google money via the data collected on the platform. This means only platforms that have a gigantic ad network themselves and are able to monetize said data as well as Google can can actually compete with YouTube— and as you see, there are basically none.
Also, the whole blocking ad blockers thing is trying to fundamentally reverse the power equilibrium between the website (the server) and the person visiting it (the client); because for the last 40 years or so, the server had the purpose of delivering content to the client which could decide what to do with and how to present said content. This sharing of responsibility between the two comes in many forms, starting with simple things such as screen readers or a reading mode for the browser.
This is not necessarily the case.
You could only use this new system if the old one fails, ie. only for the say 10% of users that block ads, and so even if it were more expensive it would still be more profitable than letting them block all ads.
But I don’t think even that is the case, as they can essentially just “swap out” the video they’re streaming (as they don’t really stream “one video” per video anyway), bringing additional running costs to nearly zero.
The only thing definitely more expensive and resource intensive is the development of said custom software
It does (via the dock and probably directly as well), so that would absolutely work!
Then it looks like a really terrible concert and then you notice it’s cotton.
apart from ne not having that much money laying around a the moment I’m not a fan of people having to pay for their search engine, as I’m of the opinion that such a fundamental tool to use the web should remain free
Yeah, I’ve recently switched to SearXNG instances on some devices, definitely seem to be getting better results
it sometimes seem to, most advanced searching still works, at least on DDG
Oh my god, I feel this so much… Also, I think that recently got even worse, as I recently found myself switching between DDG/Google and finding both extremely bad for my query
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Honestly, I’d be more than happy if they just invented regular trains (even if their version would probably worse in ways not even imaginable as of now), because that would mean more money in train infrastructure.
So… yeah, you did it! You built something really cool and completely new! And don’t look over there, that’s just… copycats?
Crazy to think that one of twenty people I meet outside use Linux
Seems to have become one of the fundamental rules of the Internet now, I approve 👍
Ohhhh, I desperately want this to happen!
“it’s called free software, but copyleft licenses restrict what you can do with it, therefore it’s unfree!!1!” or so they say
I, too, don’t love the use of AWS/Cloudflare, while I get that you can simply replace AWS S3 with something else for backups, this server setup is innately based on using Cloudflare.
This is sooooo incredibly sad!!! I’m currently on an older iPhone and probably getting a Pixel next month; I would really have liked it if there were a bigger variety of phones where I could live truly Google-free, and I would much prefer not having to give Google money to not be reliant on Google…
iOS user here, uYou++ is quite good, but only a mod for the regular YT app, not a complete alternative.