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[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

sounds desperate. I'd be selling google stock if I had any, are they really so dependent on loans that interest rates are killing them or is this more AI fuelled bullshit?

[–] JonEFive@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I'd be selling google stock if I had any

If you did, you probably wouldn't. Unfortunate as it may be, Google is an unfathomably massive business that continues to generate value for their shareholders. Any stock sales by an average individual as a protest are meaningless. Even if you sold a million dollars worth of stock, it wouldn't mean anything to them.

Alphabet's market cap is currently 1.7 trillion dollars. With a T. $1,700,000,000,000.

We can extrapolate from there just how much money would need to move for them to pay even a little attention. For example, $170 million dollars is just 0.01%. Granted a move that large from a single investor might cause a brief drop as others sell as well, but investors are just gonna buy it all up at a discount. They'll call it a market correction and keep on going.

I'm not saying you should just roll over and accept their shit, but money is not the way to do it unless you can move more than a billion dollars.

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[–] umbraroze@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

If Chrome is known for one thing, it's absurd User-Agent strings. Why not make it even more absurd???

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/119.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 (Ahahaha; Fuck you Google; This is actually) Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/119.0

[–] SapphironZA@lemmings.world 9 points 1 year ago

Did not notice it today, but I am running ublock origin and they got my back.

[–] SacrificedBeans@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

I noticed a delay on Opera with uBlock. I attributed it to invisible fights between the adblock and youtube. But idk if that's relevant, I think Opera GX is chromium based.

[–] HopelessDemigod@mstdn.social 8 points 1 year ago

@db0

This is starting to get into the antitrust arena. DOJ needs to take action.

[–] wavebeam@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

i was wondering about this! very dumb.

[–] erranto@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

They have all the decision makers in their payrolls. They will stop at nothing !

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Honestly thought this was a glitch because it has happened before where youtube would freeze, usually from some backend error, and the whole page wouldn't load.

Really getting desperate lol.

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago

Use Invidious or Piped in combination with LibRedirect, that will solve the issue

[–] 271apple@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago
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