Kbin supports hashtags (and I included a few when I posted this), but there's no filtering option yet (that I'm aware of, at least), so it's still mostly just for discovery purposes.
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Which if blocking ads is piracy then at that point the word just becomes diluted, and at that point who even cares.
Isn't "taking something without paying" what piracy is? With YouTube, the "payment" is your time spent watching an ad. If you bypass that "payment", are you not effectively pirating the content?
It doesn't seem that diluted to me. I actually agree with Linus's take that adblocking is piracy. It's just a much more socially and legally-acceptable form of piracy.
If anything, I feel like adblocking on YouTube does even more direct damage to content creators than pirating blockbuster movies does to movie studios, honestly. If ten thousand people pirate a new Marvel movie, Disney's not going to hurt too bad from that. But if ten thousand people adblock a YouTuber, that can significantly hurt their income by damaging their ad impression ranking. Advertisers on YouTube set their rates based on the engagement they get from a channel, and drops in engagement will typically result in drops in CPM.
It's the reason I pay for YouTube Premium, myself. I use YouTube pretty much all day long, and I want the creators whose content I spend my day watching to get paid for their work. And if not for YTP, I would 100% be adblocking YouTube, otherwise.
They probably meant "sexual harassment". Legally speaking, "sexual abuse" typically refers to sexual assault against a child. Verbal/online interactions would generally fall under "harassment".
Madison, a former LMG employee who handled the social media part of the business, posted a series of tweets alleging a slew of accusations of sexual harassment and paints a picture of a very toxic and abusive workplace.
Personally, I don't know how much stock I put into all of that just yet. She didn't come with receipts, so right now that part of the story is still mostly "he said she said" until either Madison posts more details about specific incidents or if LMG responds to her claims directly.
Edit: Link to Madison's tweets, mirrored off-site from Twitter: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741.html
Alexa, cancel that. Make it champagne, instead.
They start on page 1, along with a list of all the charged parties.
It sounds like he's gonna get hit with RICO.
Alexa, order more popcorn.
If you've got a decent enough connection, it's honestly not as detrimental as you might think. I played on Stadia from its launch day up until it closed earlier this year. I was able to fairly consistently place top of the scoreboard in my cross-platform PVP matches in Destiny 2, during both the skill-based and connection-based matchmaking metas. I think I'm something like 500+ miles from the closest Google datacenter, too.
Mine got totaled about 6 years ago. I live in a city, so getting around with public transit, rideshares, street scooters, etc, isn't too bad. I can get where I need to get easily and cheaply enough. There's plenty of times where it's a burden not having one, but honestly 99/100 days, it doesn't bother me at all.
That said, I'd still love it if my city was more walkable, in general. If I wanna get somewhere by foot, my options are pretty limited.
I don't think it should be banned outright, but there definitely needs to be more regulation in this field. Child influencers are basically child actors, who have notoriously been taken advantage of by the entertainment industry for ages. While regulations have made things a lot better for child actors, it's still not perfect, but way better than before. There should be pushes for similar protections for child influencers, since they're basically doing the same thing, just on social media instead of in film.
I very quickly got used to the gesture controls, and now appreciate the extra screen space.
"Not acknowledging" and "directly interfering with" something are two different things.