This just means they’re a struggling company who needs to cut headcount and want to do it without paying severance

Pretty sure youtube is revenue generating on its own now. Youtube doesn’t work as a loss leader because it’s so different from all other products.

More government intervention in markets, because that’s what Republicans stand f- oh wait, er…

shadowbanning is a totally different issue that’s existed for a long time though.

1. Rather than fighting against ad-tech , they’re caving. If someone comes into your house to punch you and rob you everyday, do you say “let’s find a solution that we’re both happy with, how about you rob me and don’t punch me?”

2. We could have argued about how privacy-protecting this is, and whether it will actually prevent further intrusive tracking. Perhaps I might be persuaded to keep it. But the fact that I wasn’t informed about being opted in when upgrading, and the fact that the CTO is doubling down on “users are too stupid to understand this”, means they’ve lost any trust and/or willingness for me to listen to them. Turning this off for good.

that’s fine for a small discord group but it doesn’t scale. you can’t be that active in moderating millions of conversations.

downvotes (and hiding downvoted comments) is a community-driven way of signaling unacceptable behavior. it largely works, except in echo chambers.

I mean IBM is still traded but it’s a shadow if it’s former self

It CAN BE amazing in certain situations. Ceo tomfoolery is what’s making generative Ai become a joke to the average user.

The nature of a site like reddit (and lemmy and all other alternatives) means a large userbase is necessary. Not at the expense of CSAM, but also everyone trying to gatekeep lemmy doesn’t realise that we’ll die a slow death unless the fediverse grows by at least 10-20x.

The trick is to block all meme communities

You can’t fuck yourself

Great, no scrolling through thousands of lines to find the right one!

Neither tabs or spaces are good. The correct way is to leave no whitespace in the code at all. It’s unnecessary and adds to processing time.

Everyone should aim for 1LOC per commit

For best results, take one antibiotic concurrently with every probiotic food/drink!

I’m not even in the UK and I speak English.

no, they can’t. they would have to install software on your phone/computer to do so, and that triggers a whole bunch of warnings.

If you read the link you sent, you’ll see that those tools don’t exist on most websites - it’s a dedicated software for screen recording so product managers can understand how users use the site.

It’s actually a great example to highlight what I said - on most websites, you can’t track detailed user behavior, only clicks and the time of the click. You need to install software to find that out. On apps, you can track where the user scrolls, where they stop scrolling/scroll more slowly, and a lot more.

On a website, all you know is that the user took 2 minutes between loading the page and clicking button X. On an app, you can see that the user scrolled on the right edge (probably right handed), paused along the way at section A, exited the app (maybe they got a notification), came back to scroll down and click on button X.

Websites can track clicks like you said, but on top of that, apps can track where exactly on the screen you tap, how long you scroll, where on the page you paused to look, etc.

there are a bunch of other things they can track that aren’t considered “tracking requests”. time you spend on each page, whether you click a new popup, etc.

when i don’t use a site often, i don’t want to waste 200MB of space installing the app.

it’s fine for an app to have more functions than the website, but some companies cripple their mobile website functions just to get people to download the app so they can track user behavior more. sites that do that just make me stop using them. looking at you, tripadvisor and yelp.