dwindling7373

joined 1 year ago
[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 5 points 9 months ago

Well, Bob, that's the point. Your "threat model" is just... wrong. It's like going to a factory stating you only care for phisical protection ignoring the chemical hazards.

That's not o photo of your coffee, that's where you live your socioeconomical group, your believes, your political inclinations, your social network, your daily routine...

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 5 points 10 months ago (6 children)

You mean the email? I never had anything resembling the issues you describe.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 11 points 11 months ago

Not an expert but at a certain point FreeTube introduced SponsorBlock in their code, and posted a blog post describing why it wasn't on by default and how that choice was a good compromise toward the creators and to push for better form of monetization. A similar talk was had by NewPipe. From those link you can find all sort of details about the intended (and unintended) impact of those tools.

https://docs.freetubeapp.io/usage/sponsorblock/#disclaimer

https://newpipe.net/blog/pinned/newpipe-and-online-advertising/

From those sources it's easy to see that those technology are indeed transparent to some form of monetization.

Technology aside, I think it's safe to assume YouTube incentivizes creators according to engagement and retention, no matter the technology used to see them or the ads shown, since what they are ultimately rewarding is the skill of the creator in grabbing human attention. How to maximize the monetization of that is secondary.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

We are working on establishing defined criteria for every section of our site, and this may be subject to change. If you have any questions about our criteria, please ask on our forum and don't assume we didn't consider something when making our recommendations if it is not listed here. There are many factors considered and discussed when we recommend a project, and documenting every single one is a work-in-progress.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 1 points 11 months ago

Are you, like, manually writing down on paper the 0s and 1s of the software you use? Personally it takes me 20 seconds top to "download a whole program".

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Other than a couple of neat features, basically it allows you to have the youtube account features, without having an account.

Locally you tell him what channels you care for, and it fetches your homepage for you, without all the strings attached to google doing that within your account and, hence, knowing exactly what kind of person you are.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

What made you choose not to care any less about achievements?

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

According to my continued survival on the planet, none.

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 2 points 1 year ago

That pricing (or any pricing) is unsustainable, all it is there for is to give illusion of choice to try and comply with the law. Your data are useless if too many people choose to pay and Facebook dies, on the contrary the more people allows for refined monetization, the stronger Facebook's business becomes (or get back to before GDPR status).

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 59 points 1 year ago

Why would you need a researcher for that? This is not some ancient history or something...

[–] dwindling7373@feddit.it 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who is upvoting this? Russell's Paradox is about groups containing all the members that don't belong to said group.

Not the Onion hosting an article about the effect of The Onion is humorously close to that.

view more: ‹ prev next ›