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Philthy posted:This doesn't work for me, it worked for a day, now it never works. I have to use FreeTube (Windows app only AFAIK), which works 100%. Random interjection here - the malwarebytes firefox plugin seems to trigger the youtube bullshit. You using that? It was driving me crazy, couldn't understand why I was getting the lovely popup even though my uBlock Origin was up to date, cache cleared etc.
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Competing/overlapping extensions in Firefox can be an issue, yeah. "Enhancer for YouTube" has a checkbox to block ads, which is what was triggering YouTube nags for me until I unchecked it and restarted the browser.
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Dec 27, 2023 23:18
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The worship of Rand is honestly baffling. It’d be like if a majority of bankers and tech people believed in magic after reading Harry Potter
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Dec 27, 2023 23:29
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Professor Shark posted:The worship of Rand is honestly baffling. It’d be like if a majority of bankers and tech people believed in magic after reading Harry Potter I don't think so. It's an inherently selfish belief system (if you could call it that) in which your selfishness is a virtue and your success is 100% because you are the Self Made Man. It naturally appeals to narcissistic capitalists. It's a validation.
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Dec 27, 2023 23:34
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You're never gonna go broke telling rich people what they want to hear
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Dec 27, 2023 23:44
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Philthy posted:This doesn't work for me, it worked for a day, now it never works. I have to use FreeTube (Windows app only AFAIK), which works 100%. You might have another plugin that is the way. In my case it was enhancer for youtube which had it's own adblock. I disabled it's adblock while keeping the rest of the functionality. Don't use a chromium based browser. I simp for firefox. If this is green it should work. https://drhyperion451.github.io/does-uBO-bypass-yt/ A lot more for trouble shooting, https://www.reddit.com/r/uBlockOrigin/about/sticky?num=2
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Dec 27, 2023 23:52
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Philthy posted:This doesn't work for me, it worked for a day, now it never works. I have to use FreeTube (Windows app only AFAIK), which works 100%. Weird. Are you on Chrome or Firefox? I'm on Firefox.
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Dec 28, 2023 00:14
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ChthonicMasturbatr posted:"Enhancer for YouTube" has a checkbox to block ads, which is what was triggering YouTube nags for me Annnnnd we have a winner. Good lord fuckin' Youtube. (Im in Edge btw, so Chromium or whatever the gently caress - i cant stand firefox)
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Dec 28, 2023 07:12
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I like when websites are like "Hey we notice you left something in your cart" and I'm like "hey you assholes I only gave you that email because my password manager puts it in with my address and I wanted to know how much shipping costs". I get it having people enter their zip code wasn't lovely enough.
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Philthy posted:This doesn't work for me, it worked for a day, now it never works. I have to use FreeTube (Windows app only AFAIK), which works 100%. Turn off all other adblockers and any app that interacts with YouTube and don't use Chrome.
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Dec 28, 2023 10:34
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Duck and Cover posted:I like when websites are like "Hey we notice you left something in your cart" and I'm like "hey you assholes I only gave you that email because my password manager puts it in with my address and I wanted to know how much shipping costs". I get it having people enter their zip code wasn't lovely enough. Some sites would offer you 10% to come back and make the order Not often these days, though
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Dec 28, 2023 12:55
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Sounds like AI sludge is leaking into new areas. https://twitter.com/selentelechia/status/1740060710095429957
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Dec 28, 2023 14:32
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I heard about someone who used ai for good by using it to write an "80 Prayers for Trump" book and then using the money from people who bought it to fund their transition. A small positive anecdote at least amid the tsunami of ai garbage that is rapidly headed to demolish internet and real-life content.
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A Strange Aeon posted:I heard about someone who used ai for good by using it to write an "80 Prayers for Trump" book and then using the money from people who bought it to fund their transition. The only good use case for chatbots: scamming chuds 
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Dec 28, 2023 15:11
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I should start modifying my host file to blackhole any website that serves up AI garbage. It is baddddd and of course Google serves them up first due to SEO
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I'm annoyed that prime didn't let me give a reason for cancelling. It was bad enough having an ad at the beginning, gently caress having them throughout as well. Also it seems like the service is 99% rent or buy crap anyway, not much for included content. I only signed up for the new Kids in the Hall. I will return if they ever make more Kids in the Hall.
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Dec 28, 2023 15:38
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My work has been making noise about using AI machine learning tools to generate documents. I work at an engineering consulting firm. Like a real one, not computer toucher poo poo. People construct buildings and bridges based on the reports we produce. I am legit concerned. run on sentience posted:I'm annoyed that prime didn't let me give a reason for cancelling. It was bad enough having an ad at the beginning, gently caress having them throughout as well. My first reading of this was that Amazon made you watch ads before you could cancel your subscription, which would honestly not surprise me
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Dec 28, 2023 15:53
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Pennywise the Frown posted:That is batshit insane. The Nazi Germany model of management  I predict it will end about as well for Sears as it did for Germany.
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Dec 28, 2023 16:04
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It’s over, it destroyed them. There was something weird about the CEO buying and renting out former Sears assets or something that made him lose money. The original article was nuts.
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Professor Shark posted:It’s over, it destroyed them. There was something weird about the CEO buying and renting out former Sears assets or something that made him lose money. The original article was nuts. I think the thrust of it was that Sears and K-Mart had a lot of value as companies primarily because (especially in K-Mart's case) they were sitting on a ton of super valuable legacy real estate. K-Mart bought a ton of land assets in the 80s
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Dec 28, 2023 17:21
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Whenever I check some rarely used site or app and there's a red dot on an icon
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Dec 28, 2023 18:16
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The balls of Amazon to throw ads on the shows you're already paying for, then to demand more money to remove them! Like a protection racket. The cojones on that service.
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Dec 28, 2023 18:58
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wash bucket posted:Sounds like AI sludge is leaking into new areas. This has been a huge issue with mushroom foraging books. As most people know the details super loving matter on mushroom identification so basically the whole community has been telling every new hobbiest to make sure theyre sticking to a few older mainstay books and ignore anything newly published.
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Dec 28, 2023 19:05
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Once other publishers find some of their own text in a book generated by AI, they will go after multiple companies. Artists and photographers are already doing this. It's going to be lawsuit heaven for greedy lawyers looking for paydays. Licensing the data and images will be a really big thing once the larger companies are hit for billions. Scraping the internet to train your models was the dumbest thing any company could do.
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Dec 28, 2023 19:19
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Flubby posted:The balls of Amazon to throw ads on the shows you're already paying for, then to demand more money to remove them! Like a protection racket. The cojones on that service. If you listen to the barfed out legalese at the end of the ad for the new service they mention that "some shows still have ads." Of course this part is sped up as fast as legally possible
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Dec 28, 2023 19:21
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Philthy posted:Once other publishers find some of their own text in a book generated by AI, they will go after multiple companies. Artists and photographers are already doing this. It's going to be lawsuit heaven for greedy lawyers looking for paydays. Licensing the data and images will be a really big thing once the larger companies are hit for billions. Scraping the internet to train your models was the dumbest thing any company could do. The NY Times is already having a go at this too: NY Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft for infringing copyrighted works
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wash bucket posted:The NY Times is already having a go at this too: NY Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft for infringing copyrighted works Yeah, I'm not so sure fair use clause was meant to allow companies to ingest the entire internet. It's the same reason I can't go to a library, check out a book, and copy it down backwards and sell it. It might be different and new, but it's still illegal. I wonder if Legal Eagle has done a take on this yet.
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Isn’t something like this the reason the FBI went after Aaron Swartz til he killed himself? Why is it suddenly ok because a company did it
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:Isn’t something like this the reason the FBI went after Aaron Swartz til he killed himself? Why is it suddenly ok because a company did it
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:Isn’t something like this the reason the FBI went after Aaron Swartz til he killed himself? Why is it suddenly ok because a company did it Giant corporations vs the AI companies ruining the internet? Let em fight I say.
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1) People will grumble about the ads, but still mostly use the services 2) NYTimes and all them will fail to do anything against AI and, in the end, will ally themselves with the stronger AI companies or implement their own crappy AI stuff 3) Big AI will be hyped on (the NYT in particular seems fascinated with AI news stories) until it collapses, like blockchain and self-driving 4) We will be left with lower baseline of quality than before, with more ads, nonsensical mush for content, and the larger media companies (NYT being one of them) stabilizing themselves 5) Price increases, hassles, unskippable ads 6) People will grumble, but continue to use the services I'm not real smart, but one problem with the enshittification theory, that platforms become worse and worse until they die, is this: people will endure anything to alleviate their boredom, but if there's no better service to run to, they'll still leave the TV on, or go to that one site for their news/entertainment. If enshittification is constant throughout the industry, through collusion or just everyone pushing their chess pieces at the same time, and the rapid adoption of AI might make this possible, the baseline experience will just go lower, globally. So, I say now: practice doing without cheap, good, ad-free content now. Because absolutely none of it is worth enduring a single ad for, much less the nonsense to come.
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Woolie Wool posted:The Nazi Germany model of management "We're going to run through the power tools department like crap through a goose!"
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:Isn’t something like this the reason the FBI went after Aaron Swartz til he killed himself? Why is it suddenly ok because a company did it It's ok to steal content if you use it to make the number to up, it's wrong to steal content if it's to make it available to the people for free
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Big Bowie Bonanza posted:Isn’t something like this the reason the FBI went after Aaron Swartz til he killed himself? Why is it suddenly ok because a company did it because america is for the companies not for the little guy. its theirs. they took it over.
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doctorfrog posted:So, I say now: practice doing without cheap, good, ad-free content now. Because absolutely none of it is worth enduring a single ad for, much less the nonsense to come. Absolutely absurd that you think cheap ad-free content will ever go away. It won't. We're just entering another period where yo ho ho is better than streaming. That's the thing, piracy is the omnipresent baseline that the services must defeat to exist, and piracy is at an all time low because legal streaming has been so easy and good in the recent past. Give it a little time and piracy will be easier than ever, and the legal streaming companies will once again be forced to provide value in order to eat. Remember, piracy got us streaming in the first place. Piracy will fix this. Yo ho ho, motherfuckers.
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Yep, the ubiquity and ease of streaming had me give up on maintaining a plex server about 7 years ago and after the change to Amazon prime I’ll be spinning up the ol’ home server again
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Dec 28, 2023 22:40
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Plex is still remarkably unshitty compared to literally any streaming service. Between that and SmartTube I don't think I've hosed with a single streaming platform in a good long while.
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russia has like a million free streaming servers of every single movie and tv show as i type this guess what country doesnt give any fucks about us copyright laws
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Yeah, I know I complained about the $10/mth thing before, but I stopped pirating as soon as Netflix became easy to access and the “big name” porn companies started using Pornhub
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