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Aatube , 2 days ago

casualeurope feels a lot more discussion and news, and YUROP has been defederated from by dbzer0 for Israel-related reasons

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Aatube , 3 days ago

it's like why some people prefer Windows LTSC I think: less breakage, more stability, less experimental features, enterprises that use these often want like privacy hardening for security or something so these distributions often have similar things, etc

i do not think there's anything to worry about chinese laptops with us-designed chips lol. it's a TSMC to the bottom

Privacy researcher debunks Microsoft Edge’s free VPN marketing, says it's "NOT a VPN" ( www.windowslatest.com )

Aatube , 3 days ago

the problem with edge's (allegedly) is not just it's white-label, though. that would make it a VPN.

Tom Robinson from The Game Theorists is Tommy Robinson in disguise

today, i apologized to my younglin' for my reactin' to his discussin' of "tom robinsin'" ...

A Mother's Love by Jason Frazee

Jason’s IG - NSFW!: https://www.instagram.com/frazees_photostash

Aatube , 6 days ago

there's a story behind this one, isn't there?

CSS that tries to aim to make governance pinned vote tallies display like normal Lemmy emoji size in the Photon frontend ( userstyles.world )

Unfortunately Photon uses a CSS framework instead of meaningful CSS class names, so this is a hack that simply shrinks every image in every top comment's thread, so YMMV.

Aatube OP , 9 days ago

not exactly sure what you mean. you could send me a link and i'll give you a link to its photon UI. it handles image posts

Ad-blocking is piracy, and that's okay

While consuming the content, you're avoiding paying some content its price, because you protest how the content guards its commercial interests. Thus, ahoy!

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

if you're arguing this, it's probably already vanishingly rare for you to be clicking on ads or looking anything more than a glance at them. and on my work device, where i didn't install adblockers as an experiment, i don't recall ever seeing ads that ship malware, and i commit quite a bit of tomfoolwery on my work device.

if by malware you mean how viewing ads slows down your machine, that what people say of Denuvo.

(not sure what you meant by the jehovah's witnesses part. are they actually starving?)

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

i do block ads because they waste my time. that's still piracy, and there's a bajillion ethical reasons to commit piracy

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

i'm not asking you to accept harassment, i'm not saying piracy is bad. i'm just saying that ad-blocking is one form of piracy, just like how people pirate to reject DRM. and it surprises me that so many people insist it's not.

i don't understand why i would host a solicitor or how that is comparable to ads. when you see a solicitor you don't pay them bread and jam, their company does. when you see an ad you don't pay the website money, the ad company does.

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

i value social contracts over law, and especially for small websites, when their advertising is unintrusive i think i should help them survive and keep running. a ton of major things i use like great independent news sources and some hosters of pirated content use ads while i don't have a membership.

by analogy, maybe piracy doesn't reduce indie devs' revenues that much as it provides word-of-mouth. but that doesn't mean you shouldn't pay for them.

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

i don't like the idea of excluding people who don't have the means to pay from service ("monetize it as a business"), and when i was young i had to avoid paid services. many online creations that got popular like wavetro's animations and modrinth simply couldn't keep up with costs by just donations.

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

so is DRM.

money isn't what cult members want when they volunteer to evangelize. that's different from webmasters and ads.

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

to be fair, the most popular ad platforms like google ads use trackers, so it is something to consider. but i do agree that this kind of lumping is bad since this thinking hurts ethical ad platforms too.

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

i'd say the other comments disagree

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

no, and neither is looking away from internet ads. blocking on the other hand stops the ad company from paying

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

I believe that advertising without trackers is ethical.

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

post office gets paid either way, website doesn't. you're describing looking away from the website's ads while your ad-blocker's off.

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

i also like to smell armpits

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

to watch BBC, not mute ads, no?

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

not paying attention to ads is very different from blocking the ads

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

most people don't block ads not because they think that it harms someone but because they don't know that it's possible.

I agree.

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

these are as rare as non-tracking ads, and my approaches of<1. i don't use my web browser much on mobile (that distance probably fries my eyes anyways) 2. i use µBO and whitelist sites on my normal computer>probably help me avoid that anyways

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

curiously, the only time i've ever gotten infected (besides wannacry) was through a torrent

Aatube OP , 11 days ago

the analogue there would be clicking on the ad. google ads, probably the most popular single platform, has two kinds of ad payment: per-click and per-impression. by just receiving it and throwing it away you get rid of the former, but by blocking ads you get rid of both. (there's also the fact that most people do not block ads, while most people do throw away junk mail)

and if everyone throws away junk mail, there's still money, because the post office got paid to deliver it. same goes for not blocking ads but not looking at them.

Aatube OP , 10 days ago

i agree; you're making copies: not displacing any original inventory

Aatube OP , 10 days ago

but to the website's wallet

Aatube OP , 10 days ago

i mean if not targeted, how is it any more brainwashing than arguments online?

or maybe i'm just biased against being affected by it because i've got a really frugal family culture

Aatube OP , 9 days ago

That makes the piracy a lot more ethical and probably something I support.

Aatube OP , 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago)

If one of the pirate parties succeeded in implementing their platform, I'd still call the act piracy there.

Aatube OP , 9 days ago

by "the act" I meant things that are more popularly understood as piracy. even if torrenting cracked Assassin's Creed was legalized, I'd still call torrenting cracked video games piracy.

Aatube OP , 6 days ago

you are involved in the deal, because advertisers pay by how many times the ad is displayed (or clicked). just like how you are involved in the deal between the distributor and cinema, because the pay depends on how many tickets you buy.

Aatube OP , 6 days ago

thing is with ads you can block, the advertiser is not paying if the ad is blocked.

i agree that taking a restroom break while an ad is showing is not piracy. that's not blocking the ad, though.

Aatube OP , 6 days ago

as much as sneaking into a seat in a cinema without paying means you're no longer involved in the deal. so yeah, you might have a point that you're no longer involved in any deal, but i'd still call that piracy.

Aatube OP , 5 days ago (edited 5 days ago)

https://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/95614/do-ad-impressions-count-if-the-user-is-using-an-adblocker summarizes Google Ads's documentation at https://support.google.com/admanager/answer/141811?hl=en (TL;DR: pay depends on whether a script/request attached to the ad element is performed).

It's true that different adblockers do different things, but the most popular ones do block the requests too. One of the most popular arguments for adblocking is performance and bandwidth. If we only hid the ad from view without doing that, we would not get the performance and bandwidth savings that adblock brings. So, µBO blocks the requests.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/1d7bf783-e250-42c8-bb77-cb9ac7284244.webp

You can confirm yourself whether the request is blocked by searching "ad" (or "doubleclick" specifically for DoubleClick Ads, which are the majority of Google Ads) in your browser DevTools's "Network" tab. Compare when the adblocker is off vs. on; for me with µBO the majority of requests aren't even attempted and disappear when their entire element is ad-blocked, and in these cases the pay script doesn't load either. The screenshot above only shows some requests that were attempted and blocked.

Going down the rabbit hole, doesn't that then also imply that people using assistive technologies like a screen reader for the visually impaired are actually stealing content?

No, screen readers would still read ads. Just having the screenreader move to the next element is the same as scrolling past the ad. The difference is that if the advertiser doesn't give alt-text, the content can become nonsensical. But the advertiser still pays.

https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/pictrs/image/45262c5b-e6e8-43bf-8122-f5b311980b3c.webp

You can approximately check an ad's text for a screenreader with Firefox DevTools's "Inspect accessibility properties" feature.

Aatube OP , 4 days ago

thank you!

Nintendo is trying to shut down almost all Switch Emulators, including Eden, Citron, Kenji-NX, and MeloNx ( www.dsogaming.com )

Aatube , 11 days ago

probably not the git history, because if it was then that woould still be present across forks

feddit.org's Zionist bar problem: community ban(s) vote

Ahoy mateys! ...

Aatube , 16 days ago

banning the communities is a no-brainer (yes); we already have a ban on pro-Zionism. (I do wonder how BuyFromEU is involved in all this though; I found absolutely no mentions of "semit" in the federated modlog and I'm too tired to visit the original modlog rn.)

but I'm really unsure about banning the entire instance, as many here seem to suggest. you have convinced me that Emopunker is clueless at best and [REDACTED] at worst, but I would want to see more evidence that this has created a problematic user or moderation culture than some actions of one admin and one mod (plus one user ban without context performed by another mod).
three quarters of the screenshots here deal with removal reasons like saying "fuck off you piece of trash" and editing the headline that just happen to be applied to anti-Zionist content. maybe there's some context of discriminatory enforcement i can't see here, but "choice morsels" should really show the best evidence we have.

i think we should make a separate thread with said stronger evidence to decide on the instance ban.

(p.s.: as a Wikipedia editor I am also very fond of the "Give 'em enough rope and they'll hang themselves" argument mentioned)

Aatube , 15 days ago

not exactly what the expression means. rope means we wait for them to commit the offense and then ban, in this case prozionist behavior that’s instance-wide or widespread among their users’ comments on our instance

Aatube , 13 days ago

the easiest out is probably the crying soyjak

'What a great way to kill your community': Discord users are furious about its new age verification checks — and are now hunting for alternatives ( www.techradar.com )

Aatube , 16 days ago

this is not at all what i'm seeing on discord, and I think it's worthy of note that the article's sample is Reddit posts in r/discordapp. Discord users who use Reddit in general have a systemic bias that's close to ours, as opposed to the majority that is young Discord users.

archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog ( gyrovague.com )

Around January 11, 2026, archive.today (aka archive.is, archive.md, etc) started using its users as proxies to conduct a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Gyrovague, my personal blog. All users encountering archive.today’s CAPTCHA page currently load and execute the following Javascript ...

archive.today is directing a DDOS attack against my blog ( gyrovague.com )

Around January 11, 2026, archive.today (aka archive.is, archive.md, etc) started using its users as proxies to conduct a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack against Gyrovague, my personal blog. All users encountering archive.today’s CAPTCHA page currently load and execute the following Javascript: ...

Kids of today will likely miss Roblox in 15-20 years, but it's unlikely they'll have the chance to play the stuff they missed during their childhoods

Reminiscing on how kids of the 80s, 90s and 00s can all get games of their respective times via emulation and piracy, but anything inside Roblox is likely to be inaccessible when present day kids become adults and look back with nostalgia

Aatube , 4 days ago

Independent Mojang never had a FOSS-ish development style. For the most direct thing, Minecraft only released code deobfuscation mappings after five years of being a Microsoft subsidiary.

Aatube , 4 days ago

you do have to download the roblox player

some of its games could damn well be run offline and locally

the draw of roblox for players is precisely that everything is social. without that, everything's just a budget ripoff without its own value proposition.

The EU Commission Is Gutting Net Neutrality ( epicenter.works )

Today, 21 January 2026, the European Commission published its long-awaited proposal for a Digital Networks Act (DNA). Framed as a technical modernisation of Europe’s telecom rules, the proposal marks a decisive shift away from core principles that have safeguarded an open and neutral internet for almost a decade.

Aatube , 29 days ago

https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/blob/d3a6870f391a3942caf65b4c0bb65081a5b7c9e0/onboarding-feature/src/main/java/eu/europa/ec/onboardingfeature/interactor/DocumentIdentificationInteractor.kt
https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/blob/d3a6870f391a3942caf65b4c0bb65081a5b7c9e0/issuance-feature/src/main/java/eu/europa/ec/issuancefeature/interactor/DocumentOfferInteractor.kt#L169
https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/blob/d3a6870f391a3942caf65b4c0bb65081a5b7c9e0/core-logic/src/main/java/eu/europa/ec/corelogic/model/DocumentIdentifier.kt#L25-L45
https://ageverification.dev/Technical%20Specification/architecture-and-technical-specifications/?h=eu.europa.ec.av.1#412-attribute-set

Granted, the source code is not intuitively named, I'll give you that. I wouldn't have expected the repo links to be in https://ageverification.dev/Setup/ "Setup" either. But thanks to the fact that it is open source, anyone can check that they never send IDs to a server that requests age verification. The necessary information is scanned from the ID locally on the device.

Joining Haidra, instance democracy and the tantalizing potential for user flairs

Hey peeps, I got a few things to talk about. ...

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Aatube , 9 days ago

hmm, you can donate compute?