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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube is allowing Youtubers to advertise their merch even for premium users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I use revanced. None of youtube's changes upsets me because I know within hours/days they'll be patched out.

  I know all the private alternatives are useful, but using the google ecosystem directly without dealing with their money grubbing schemes feels like nice way of saying "suck it"

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game wikis just aren't as popular anymore?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminder to get Indie Wiki Buddy to automatically be redirected to ad-free versions of fandom wikis or to be redirected to actual genuine wikis, for example, TF2 Fandom Wikis get redirected to the official TF2 Wiki.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does it matter if I skip sponsored ad segments in YouTube videos?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No, the creator has been paid for the sponsorship beforehand. If you were never going to get the products that are sponsored then there's no difference between skipping it or letting it play and ignoring it.

  I mean yeah, youtube does track the times in videos people do watch and are engaged in, but by skimming through almost any video you can see many people skip around and don't actually watch the full videos.

  Sponsorblock just saves me from manually skipping past the sponsorships. I was never going to buy a shilled product to begin with anyway. I buy things based on my own research, not what a youtuber says I should buy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open source community figures out problems with performance in Starfield⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't buy this. Plenty of games allow you to adjust gravity on the fly using console commands. All they would have to do if you enter a new planet's atmosphere, is adjust the gravity value.

  Source engine has allowed this forever, changing gravity on the fly. No reason it can't be implemented in other engines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How can I be less competitive about social media engagement?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Quit playing the numbers game. It's all irrelevant. Those numbers are there to go up, give you that dopamine, and get you addicted. Yeah, it's hard, but once you keep reminding yourself that most social media is designed to be addictive and is genuinely detrimental to mental health, you will begin to stop caring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well then, maybe don't give me an Ad every 3 songs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you're on android check out spotube.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple security updates could be banned by British government⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Signal already said that they're willing to leave the UK if the UK goes ahead with their E2EE backdoor law. I can see more companies doing the same if the government keeps insisting that every foreign company complies with their bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why don’t Lemmings capitalize the beginning of each letter in their title for their posts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  My guess is the more casual nature of the communication going on. It's less formal than putting in the effort of creating a published work like an article or video. Here you can just put the words in a box and hit go, your content is on the internet. Articles and videos require more time and effort to put together, so it would make sense to me for those to appear more formal, even if the content isn't the most serious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Most motorists want noise cameras installed to clamp down on loud cars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Please. I live on one of the busier streets in my town, right by an intersection. The amount of people driving by with cars that sound like someone's farting over a megaphone are insanely obnoxious. Fuck, most the time they're shit boxes that go slower than normal cars. People in my area buy cheap, shitty cars, pay to have a falsified safety, then make them loud and obnoxious while slowing down traffic because their cars can barely accelerate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So much for that dream.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Archive.today works with more sites, such as NYT.