NotAGamer

Sounds very 1930’s German like.

The longest ad I’ve see on YouTube was about 7 years ago and I watched the whole ad because someone paid for the entire Michael Jackson’s Thriller video as an ad.

2 issues. Inconsistent quality control of ads. In some places ads have content that would be banned in the actual YouTube videos. There’s also inconsistent quantity of ads. You can have 5 second or 14.5 second unskippable ads with the timer for determining if an ad is unskipple getting longer and longer. I’ve also seen a 10 minute video with 3 double ad stops and it’s all creeping up with them even now not showing the timer for ads in the Android app. They were fine when they started ads but it’s getting worse.

Until Trump makes that illegal.

That’s called fascism.

The only needed response is “no”.

Meta doesn’t own Lemmy. But If Lemmy employed the same tactics, drop them too. The Internet is not just social media.

I would be devastated but I don’t and never have used xitter.

Just delete all Meta stuff. All of it.

It can’t stop when running directly at a wall but you expect it to handle special lanes?

It was dial-up. Most computers don’t have phone modems built in anymore, cell phones definitely don’t and it would be so slow as to be virtually useless with modern APIs. Broadband needs a hardware setup which nobody can or will do for free. Sure there’s wifi which some cities offer but those will be restricted and are only “free” as covered by local government taxes or local businesses. The days where the model of free internet access in exchange for selling your data is gone. Clearly to me the poster above is referring to social media selling your privacy which goes back to my point that social media is not the Internet.

That was tried in the early hours 2000s but almost nobody used it.

You’re confusing Internet with services on the Internet. Social media is not the Internet. The Internet exists without Facebook, Xitter and other social media sites.

Even with tariffs it’s still not financially viable to Apple to bring manufacturing to the U.S. and if they still decided to it would take 10to 15 years to get going. It ain’t gonna happen. Sad oompa-loompa.