I kinda set a no ads tolerance policy for myself. I pay for some services (e.g. $5/month for Nebula, I donate monthly to Lemmy, etc). YouTube is the main area where ads tend to creep in since iOS doesn’t have an ad blocker for YT. My goal was to totally ditch YouTube for Nebula, but they are missing some creators I like.

What’s youtube? Signed, a Nebula user.

ps. Ik ik tell me I should use PeerTube.

Idk if that was me being completely stupid and misreading that, or if ad stations is something in our near future that we should be worried about

Hold up… they have ad stations? That feels worse.

You said ads, but I think you meant “late stage capitalism”

Or even better, “Join Lemmy, it’s like Reddit with no ads”.

I bet a piece of duct tape over the speaker would work. Also, whatever money they are paying the gas stations, they would probably still get that money even if you manually muted the speaker. Really feels like a win win 😀

Is that a positive or native opinion of PieFed? I’m genuinely curious since I’ve never really scrolled through PieFed

Just downloaded Jellyfin! Been a Plex user for years. Noticed they’ve stated to add a lot of crap to the Plex interface. I just want to stream my media library. I’m a little disappointed that Jellyfin doesn’t have a native Apple TV app, but SenPlayer looks really nice and their price model is a one time fee. So no subscriptions!

What was the quote?

Check out https://fingerprint.com/. I’m not saying Reddit does this, but there are tons of datapoints they can use to fingerprint you. From what I remember, you can instruct HTML canvas to draw something and you can uniquely identify the person based on micro differences in the drawing. These differences are due to the users unique graphics rendering pipeline (e.g. browsers graphics APIs, operating system, graphics drivers, GPU). Ok so you turn off JavaScript. You can still fingerprint someone using a bunch of CSS tricks.

There are captchas but I suppose you could work around that easily by having a human sign up and offloading the account to a bot. If it really became a problem I’m sure Lemmy could adapt, but it could involve similar fingerprinting techniques to Reddit. Lemmy being petty privacy conscious would likely hate that. But I say we solve one problem at a time. Bots aren’t an issue yet.

Interesting. I wonder if it’s as simple as deleting one cookie. Someone else suggested Reddit does more sophisticated finger printing. I suspect that cookie is only one component of your digital fingerprint. It’s really just a question of how badly Reddit wants to keep people banned and how much resources they’re willing to pour into enforcing the ban.

Future isn’t bleak on Lemmy! Hopefully this just pushes more people off Reddit.

That makes sense. But in this specific case the tape can easily be removed. The only damage is to Waymo’s revenue on that specific car.

Did you connect to your banned IP address later? Probably not worth figuring out but I’m curious. There are so many ways to fingerprint people, so it’s entirely possible they collect a fingerprint from your browser and use that to match you to the banned account.

Is it based on IP? If they ban me permanently was just going to create a new account via VPN or from my local coffee shop WiFi. But I also don’t really care if they delete my account.

Damn it, you’re right. Thank you Reddit for setting me straight.

In all seriousness I’m feeling a lot better about my decision to move to Lemmy

Bruh it’s daytime. I actually do all my coding in dark mode but I’m starting to think using dark mode durning the day is straining my vision