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  • Should be, maybe. The reality is that you can spend extra time making the program work, but if it works and you want to spend extra hours on it for whatever reason, it’s usually considered a waste of time.

    Until they get hacked and it costs incredible amounts of money, that is.

    Smart programmers do all the things they need to do before they get everything working. As soon as it works they get pushed to work on something else.


  • Netflix has stopped being a product I am interested in a long time ago.

    When they started out, they had a lot of stuff. These days, you’ll have to subscribe to 5 or 6 services to watch a lot. And every service makes their own shitty shows to attract more customers. And 99% of them suck, with the occasional succes.

    Right now, Netflix is too expensive for what they offer. But clearly they think they can get away with raising proces, so I guess most people think it is worth it or simply don’t care.








  • MrAlternateTape@lemm.eetomemes@lemmy.worldLet's gooooooo.
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    2 months ago

    So what you are saying is we have plenty supply of school children and not enough billionaires? Let’s see how we can get more billionaires then. Or do you want to reduce the number of school children? Because that is being worked on constantly…America, you have the freedom to get killed by someone with mental issues anytime.






  • YouTube is simply squeezing hard now.

    They are big enough that 90% of the people who do look at videos do it there. So a video that is posted elsewhere simply does not get the exposure that it does on YouTube.

    That gives them a lot of power. And they use it to squeeze as much money as possible from anyone they can. Now, if they would do big squeezes, people would notice and they would at least try to find other sites.

    So just like abuse, it’s a slow process of tearing little barriers down of what is acceptable, until at some point users one by one start to realize it has all turned to shit.

    But that is going to take a lot of time, and until that happens we are just going to see more reports about all the things YouTube does.

    We will keep seeing angry nerds upset about it, and they will block ads and work around it. But nothing else will change. And that is such a small part of the userbase of YouTube that they don’t even feel it.

    So I’m going to block ads, watch what I want to watch as long as the site is usuable without ads, and I will stop using the site when ads can no longer be blocked. YouTube is simply not that important to me.