I’ve started getting captcha every time I do a Google search. Not sure what that’s about but it’s made the decision to pursue alternatives easy.
Comment on What is this shit? I have to be signed in to watch any video now?
skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
Google is on an enshittification speed-run. Close-source Android, combine with ChromeOS. Advertise the crap out of YouTube, draconian login requirements. Wherever their income is coming from now, it isn’t from making products users want. Probably the military “AI” overseas contracts.
I’ve been de-Googling the last few years casually as functional replacements came along and I’m down to threads now, but the icing on the cake was their injecting an ad into a funeral ceremony stream from a church on YouTube. Sure, software-side, we all know why it happened, but just. No.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 2 days ago
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
When you are forced to do captchas make sure you do them as badly as possible while appearing to be human!
These fuckers weren’t even paying attention to the “precision vs. accuracy” concept introduced on the first lecture in the one science class they had to take. Make them pay for their ignorance.
Hathaway@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
How does one do this?
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 2 days ago
Just pretend you are trying to bullshit what the objects you are identifying are as if you actually have no clue what you are supposed to be doing but you have learned basic ways to bullshit your way through. Imagine the captcha as the class you cared about LEAST in school and attempt to answer it as sloppily and half-assed as you can without getting kicked out of class.
We were born for this calling my friend.
tungsten5@lemmy.zip 2 days ago
Ive been using bing. Not a fan of microsoft but so far it hasnt been too bad
frittoBee@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m also mostly de-Googled now. I’m not signed in anywhere and don’t use most of the google stuff. It wasn’t really that hard since there are great alternatives. But saying no to YouTube and all the nice channels I’m following is really hard.
Cherry@piefed.social 3 days ago
The nice channels, those days are gone. The internet we knew has been destroyed or will be diminished to an annoying shadow pretty soon. If you had to put a % on what is now monitized what would it be?
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 days ago
what are you on about? there’s tons of amazing people on youtube
Cherry@piefed.social 3 days ago
Then sign in and watch them. 😀
Korhaka@sopuli.xyz 3 days ago
The primitive technology guy is still going. Wish I could afford the land to try some of the things he does.
Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 2 days ago
For youtube just use yt-dlp and download them, can be behind a vpn when you do it. Im not sure if that affects the creator making money though.
hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
Try invidious.