My brother-in-law also refuses to use adblockers. He prefers to pay YouTube to not enshittify his watching experience. How a man on disability can justify that cost I do not know.
5 seconds at the most since that's what YouTube SONETIMES gives. That's only if you feel like treating them like a human and not what they actually are.
The thing is, as long as money rules the planet, everyone's morality has a price. I think that's what the thing about Judas meant to convey. Or Jesus fucking shit up in the temple, for that matter.
I am a hardcore idealist. Would I help google for $100000K? No. Would I do it for a million? Uh. Would I do it for ten million? Yes. I can't justify that other than saying that I would be able to do some extreme good for humanity with that money, start schools, bring people out of poverty, help research eco-friendly fuels, grant scholarships...
But the problem will always remain- the people who have the money to grant me ten million will ultimately have the power to influence others to commit immoral acts, because that's the power of money, and as long as money rules our societies, it means that those with the most money in the world will effectively be in power of the world, which is exactly what we see.
I'm stating the obvious, I suppose, but it seems we are all so deep into the cult of capitalism that we take it for granted and don't remind ourselves enough that the economic system that has usurped our democracies worldwide lies at the deepest core of our problems as a civilization, and they will not go away until we get rid of it and replace it with something far more equitable.
Everybody who works in advertisement should be reeducated to do some productive work for society instead. Like caring for old people, cleaning parks, repairing roads ...
Your refusal to pay for a browser or a social network is what lead to this. And the people who provide those "free" services will make their money somehow.
This war was started by the companies An ad on the sidebar? sure fine, whatever. But then started farming ad streams and letting MALWARE into the fckin thing. So we put up ad blockers. And then they decided it meant we wanted MORE ads. And now it's full page as everywhere trying to trick you into a false click, it's ads interrupting content, Doctors hate this one trick! Drink a spoonful of thi s common household item to fart gerbils!! You wanna see a trailer? WATCH THESE FOUR ADS FIRST BEFORE YOU SEE THE AD!! its ads on ads on ads, in a way beyond network television's wildest dreams.
I only use those social networks the bare minimum that I am forced to do so in order to maintain a presence in human society. Burn corporate Internet to the fucking ground 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Actually 🤓, what lead to this 👆 being the state of things is corporate greed 🤑. The 'people' 🐽🐷 who own those 'services' make more money💸💸 than entire states - I belive that's what the kids call a bruh 😑 moment.
So, I've been thinking 🤔, and I belive I found a solution 👍. It's so simple 🤩, we just need to do some, let's call them 🤫😇 'budget cuts' 📉 in the highest positions 🤯🔫
Didn't care for tiny ads back then. I was there for my videos made with windows movie maker with an Evanescence track over it.
Now it's over the top and non stop, it's full of scammers, and it collects everything about me while it's trying to manipulate me into becoming enraged about everything so I keep engaging with their platform eternally.
32 Comments
alienzx@feddit.nl · 43 pts · 233d
Lol that's my cousin
wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 56 pts · 233d
Do they wash their human-skin-suit by hand, in a laundry machine, or get it drycleaned?
Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 233d
They rub it naked on a wizards beard.
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 233d
My brother-in-law also refuses to use adblockers. He prefers to pay YouTube to not enshittify his watching experience. How a man on disability can justify that cost I do not know.
ttyybb@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 232d
Its a fair mentality, but there doing it wether you pay them or not
Rothe@piefed.social · 3 pts · 232d
Giving them money just provokes further entshittification, because it gives them pointers as to what kind of shittification they can charge money for.
theuniqueone@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 38 pts · 232d
Generous to give him 10 seconds
Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 232d
5 seconds at the most since that's what YouTube SONETIMES gives. That's only if you feel like treating them like a human and not what they actually are.
swordgeek@lemmy.ca · 34 pts · 233d
Kid should get a shovel to the face. No grace period.
jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 232d
More shovels to the face. That's the power of the Home Depot.
tomiant@piefed.social · 21 pts · 233d
The thing is, as long as money rules the planet, everyone's morality has a price. I think that's what the thing about Judas meant to convey. Or Jesus fucking shit up in the temple, for that matter.
I am a hardcore idealist. Would I help google for $100000K? No. Would I do it for a million? Uh. Would I do it for ten million? Yes. I can't justify that other than saying that I would be able to do some extreme good for humanity with that money, start schools, bring people out of poverty, help research eco-friendly fuels, grant scholarships...
But the problem will always remain- the people who have the money to grant me ten million will ultimately have the power to influence others to commit immoral acts, because that's the power of money, and as long as money rules our societies, it means that those with the most money in the world will effectively be in power of the world, which is exactly what we see.
I'm stating the obvious, I suppose, but it seems we are all so deep into the cult of capitalism that we take it for granted and don't remind ourselves enough that the economic system that has usurped our democracies worldwide lies at the deepest core of our problems as a civilization, and they will not go away until we get rid of it and replace it with something far more equitable.
We need revolution.
ngdev@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 233d
you wouldnt do it for $100000K but you would do it for less than that? (you put a K on there making it 100m which is > 10m)
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 232d
they might be in one of those weird places where a billion is a million million instead of a thousand million and got threwed off
wieson@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 232d
Every Indo-European language other than english:
10^6 = Million
10^9 = Milliarde
10^12 = Billion
10^15 = Billiarde
But the 100KK > 10M works in both systems.
tomiant@piefed.social · 5 pts · 232d
Yeah the $ prefix and millions/billions throws me off sometimes when I USA.
ngdev@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 232d
is that like base 1000 math? that would get me threwed off somethin fierce
ayyy@sh.itjust.works · 7 pts · 232d
This is what the Effective Altruists were supposed to be but they somehow managed to fuck it up with narcissism like billionaires always do.
Saledovil@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 232d
People claim to be effective altruists when they can't claim that they're altruists.
Don_alForno@feddit.org · 2 pts · 232d
Wealth is power, which is why wealth, like power, must be limited.
Don_alForno@feddit.org · 17 pts · 232d
Everybody who works in advertisement should be reeducated to do some productive work for society instead. Like caring for old people, cleaning parks, repairing roads ...
MuckyWaffles@leminal.space · 8 pts · 232d
Ah, here go the COMMUNISTS again, with their "caring for the elderly", and "cleaning up public spaces".
rain_worl@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 177d
website designers who focus on accessibility should get pets (if they want), website designers who focus on coolness should be used for compost
TachyonTele@piefed.social · 9 pts · 233d
The kid needs broccoli hair to make it perfect
MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social · -31 pts · 233d
Your refusal to pay for a browser or a social network is what lead to this. And the people who provide those "free" services will make their money somehow.
Drusas@fedia.io · 41 pts · 233d
Paid media which still has ads proves the lie.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social · 11 pts · 232d
Yep. Companies don't enshittify because it's necessary, they enshittify because they can get away with it.
If they can put ads in your media even when you're paying, they will, regardless of whether your payments cover the cost on their own or not.
Syndication@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 232d
Idk why Netflix is still showing people ads then...
Taleya@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 232d
oh bullshit. I still have a paid lifetime LJ.
This war was started by the companies An ad on the sidebar? sure fine, whatever. But then started farming ad streams and letting MALWARE into the fckin thing. So we put up ad blockers. And then they decided it meant we wanted MORE ads. And now it's full page as everywhere trying to trick you into a false click, it's ads interrupting content, Doctors hate this one trick! Drink a spoonful of thi s common household item to fart gerbils!! You wanna see a trailer? WATCH THESE FOUR ADS FIRST BEFORE YOU SEE THE AD!! its ads on ads on ads, in a way beyond network television's wildest dreams.
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org · 7 pts · 233d
I only use those social networks the bare minimum that I am forced to do so in order to maintain a presence in human society. Burn corporate Internet to the fucking ground 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Fifrok@discuss.tchncs.de · 5 pts · 232d
Actually 🤓, what lead to this 👆 being the state of things is corporate greed 🤑. The 'people' 🐽🐷 who own those 'services' make more money💸💸 than entire states - I belive that's what the kids call a bruh 😑 moment.
So, I've been thinking 🤔, and I belive I found a solution 👍. It's so simple 🤩, we just need to do some, let's call them 🤫😇 'budget cuts' 📉 in the highest positions 🤯🔫
Jinarched@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 232d
Didn't care for tiny ads back then. I was there for my videos made with windows movie maker with an Evanescence track over it.
Now it's over the top and non stop, it's full of scammers, and it collects everything about me while it's trying to manipulate me into becoming enraged about everything so I keep engaging with their platform eternally.
uBlock stays on.
rain_worl@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 177d
btw: if you find someone hosting a free website you rely on, you should donate!
(evil -> not free, you pay with evils)