Fortunately they just accept whatever for verification mails, even cock.li addresses.
I'm pretty sure it has more to do with entropy and the fact we predict weather by simulating it based on existing info, and those simulations increasingly diverge as time goes on.
why wouldn't you just pay for tuta at that point if proton is so kosher?
I'm pretty much done with Youtube for the time being. Invidious is dead most of the time, Freetube has been dead for me for weeks, downloading is a pain in the ass and most of the time only yt-dlp works(and I have to manually encode most videos after downloading). Not like content is worthwhile enough even bothering with, it's mostly slop without any value. Even previously decent content creators have quit, gone crazy or sold out and there is rarely any new good content creators(not for long, either). Most of the videos over the last few years I watched were either recommended to me on here, imageboards or from channels I bookmarked(yes, bookmarked since "subscriptions" stopped working years ago) over the years. Even the search engine doesn't work since half the time it will not give you anything even remotely what you asked for and instead you will get a deluge of algorithmic content and shorts slop. You wanted to look for a niche game or a niche topic or a niche content creator on today's Youtube? Tough shit, here is an entire page of shorts and an astroturfed front page video or two mixed in there!
You pretty much summed up my thoughts. Ever tried using Jdownloader for downloading YouTube videos? Made things less of a hassle in my experience. Regardless I feel like that if you want good video content you pretty much have to pay for it. I've taken a liking to History Vault, History Hit, and The Great Courses.
Can you imagine what a steaming pile of bloated, corporate, sanitized, centralized, "monetized", watered down, "smartphone"-ish crap the internet (and tech in general) could get by 2050 at this rate? Can you imagine trying to get anything done with all that bloatware, brain-dead AI "answers", even more lobotomized searching, how invasive the ads could get, all the censorship, and touchscreens everywhere -- or maybe even brain implants? Can you image what sort of freakshow tech trends could arise in the next 25 years that could make one nostalgic for the days when it was just "smartphones" and "social media"? Compare Current Year tech to how it was in 2000 and you may be able to imagine.
I think there used to be many instances and it worked well. Then YT started that "exceptional" campaign to force people to watch the ads. Seems now there's only a handful or less instances, which are always getting hit with that "This helps protect our community" BS. The staff running the crapsite really want you to watch all the advertisements.
Well this is a bloody fantastic discomfort. Would have been nice to know before I went on my archiving sphree, seeing as a decent chunk of that archive is made up of Webm.
Look, webps make the site run better, nothing else matters. It's just an image format, grow up.
This is the first time I've seen a webp criticism other than "my software stack can't read it"
There are a bunch of cache settings in about:config, I'd look there and compare their values to a paranoid user.js like Arkenfox. about:cache might also be helpful, maybe it's just certain types of resource that are getting cached.
It could just work like redstaros and append the info of any user in possession of the file to its metadata, then you can track the path a file took between users. But I think that's a bit too schizo for an image format (although with google at the helm I would not be shocked...)
I'm once again advocating for terrorism via AdNauseam.
Let's hope for a pole shift and a total electronic burnout.
