[-] BigT54@lemmy.world 66 points 6 months ago

Recently, YouTube started adding a tracking parameter to their share URLs, when using the "share" button on a video. With this, they can track who is sharing videos with who, and under some circumstances even how they are shared. The tracker starts with the question mark in the link you posted and the link works perfectly fine without that part.

[-] BigT54@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago

Yeah, but that only matters for months. We could instead just use weeks since there are 52 weeks per year, so a quarter would be 13 weeks instead of 3 months. It would be easier to determine how many weeks there are in a span of a couple months because it's not variable, or any number of months because they're just multiples of 4. I know a lot of people would be turned off by the system because the number 13 comes up so often and people are superstitious but it really would make things easier imo.

[-] BigT54@lemmy.world 10 points 7 months ago

Except I've experienced the exact opposite. The iPhone users are the ones who complain about android users messing up their iMessage chats while simultaneously being too fucking stupid to realize it's Apple who is screwing them.

[-] BigT54@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

At least 4GB, my previous employer was a young guy that was an Apple simp. He bought a bunch of Mac minis as desktop computers and they only had 4GB of RAM. They were the most garbage piece of shit computer I have ever had the displeasure of being forced to use. It really wasn't even usable, it would lock up just trying to open any web browser or even the file explorer (or whatever Apple calls it). It really amazes me how Apple continues to shit in their customers mouths, tell them it's chocolate ice cream and they believe them

[-] BigT54@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Ads can actually be blocked in apps if you use a VPN that has the ability. Though not all apps will function with a VPN enabled

[-] BigT54@lemmy.world 13 points 8 months ago

I think they're just implying that even if YouTube figures out how to block adblock, someone will just find a way to block the adblock block and so on ad infinitum. It will just be the same game of cat and mouse we've been playing for years with the intrusive ad business.

[-] BigT54@lemmy.world 6 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Or you could just use a new tv with smart features and never connect it to your network. It's what I've done with all the TVs in my house and I simply use an external device I trust to stream.

[-] BigT54@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

I find it incredibly annoying that Google won't let you merge or transfer purchases to a new account.

[-] BigT54@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

LG ending their mobile division really sucked, the V series phones were some of the best phones ever imo. I really miss my V30, the quad DAC was awesome and the camera was actually pretty amazing too. They also weren't bloated with unremovable shit like flagships are nowadays.

[-] BigT54@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

So I'm really confused about the whole Netflix thing. It hasn't asked me to set a household location and the whole no password sharing thing was supposed to have taken effect back in May, right? Since May, my family has continued to use Netflix as if nothing has changed and we said if they try to charge us extra, we will cancel. Our Netflix is regularly used at 4 different "households" and they have yet to charge a fee and have not automatically set a household like they claimed they would.

[-] BigT54@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

It's a contraction of "you" and "all." It was never a gendered phrase to start with.

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