Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ

Those businesses give no flying fucks about signals you're angry; they only care about money. So unless you use the Clippy avatars to mobilise people and to hurt those businesses' revenues, it'll do nothing.

(For YouTube, this means to stop or at least reduce platform usage. After all its revenue comes from ads.)

Where's that mobilisation? *cricket noises*

Yep, not just there. I don't know if it's going to change anything fundamental but I agree with the sentiment and if nothing else, it's a statement of solidarity with other people who might feel like everybody around them is giving in to the slopshittification.

I don't know what being American or otherwise has to do with it btw.

I didn't because I don't use my YouTube account anymore, I only logged in with PipePipe so that I can watch age restricted videos.

Anyone remember blackout for gaza? It was performative then for a much more important cause with much more public support.

In reference to the subject on Rossman's screenshot, that is an 8 year old scandal that was, AFAIK, never proven. What was proven, was an 11 year old report on emotional manipulation by then Facebook

From the same business geniuses that though that having you pay a fee to be allowed to pick a seat next to your other family members in an airplane was a good idea...

This is the first time I'm hearing about it. Why should I do it?

I only watch the guy for one thing: His cats! :-)

No. Deleted my WhatsApp account though.

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