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Cake day: October 17th, 2023

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  • It isn’t always that simple. It could lead to age verification requirements which might be the goal as opposed to banning loot boxes. Then what has people upset about discord wanting face scans or IDs could end up becoming a legal requirement for online gaming accounts that want to play games rated T and higher.

    And this age verification thing has been getting pushed throughout the world with attempts at chat control in the EU and what’s already happened in the UK.






  • Why wouldn’t I assume someone who is advocating on behalf of infringing upon the independence of another country wouldn’t also argue for the same happening to their own country? Unless you happen to be a hypocrite who only cares if its their country being threatened?

    I guess you don’t care about US interference in Alberta either as long as its peaceful. Peaceful conquest seems to be what you are fine with and will go to many lengths to justify its acceptance. Never mind consent of what the general population actually wants.






  • Red flag is that it is an AI person hired for a game division who can’t even be trusted if any of their statements were generated through copilot, and they are nothing but a physical placeholder to mouth off copilot commands.

    And this hiring coming from the company that has decided shoving copilot into as many different Microsoft products like notepad is the way forward. So a game account is nothing but meaningless fluff when even boomers play games on their phones. Playing games doesn’t show any signs of qualifications that indicate consumers will be better off.

    Just more moves towards trying to shove AI integration to draw in investors.




  • It depends on material too. Algorithm makes recommendations based on similar video, and something like Star Wars for instance has a lot of angry conservatives ranting about it so can skew towards youtube recommendations including them in Star Wars content.

    On the other hand searching Expanse is less likely to see those conservative rant channels, since not as much content like that is made for it.

    So even though Expanse and Star Wars are scifi, viewing and searching both of them will have different levels of right wing centered media you are likely to be recommended.

    And depending on topic of interest the ideology of the most popular channels which youtube promotes also dictates what you’ll be recommended even if you don’t watch the channel. Like if you search PC stuff LTT will always dominate the first few pages of search results.






  • Freetube is nice alternative to using youtube without an account, since things like subscriptions, playlists, history are saved locally without an account. And you can back up that data.

    And with Google being behind youtube its better to avoid signing into their accounts anyways.

    Also blocks ads, can download videos, sponsor block, dearrow, and block channels.

    Sometimes freetube breaks and that’s when I’ll fall back to youtube with adblock on browser, but I won’t log into youtube. But, you can still use it to get your subscription feed and click on the video to launch to browser.

    For mobile I use pipepipe which is a fork of newpipe with sponsorblock and channel blocking.