Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

[ToroidalBoat]

A service you paid money for will kick you out of the service you paid money for if they don't like the other software on your machine.

This corporate censorship BS is really getting out of hand.

I guess they miss the days before the internet when they had more or less total control over mass media.

(and when not many watched or read stuff like public access TV or xeroxed newsletters)

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

This corporate censorship BS is really getting out of hand.

I guess they miss the days before the internet when they had more or less total control over mass media.

(and when not many watched or read stuff like public access TV or xeroxed newsletters)

I'm curious, is it possible to make an external search engine to interface with say, Youtube? Like I want to do a video search on Youtube but Youtube returns lots of commercial bloat, I want a custom search engine that can probe Youtube & return the results I actually want.

 

[grump]

I had the misfortune to accidentally click on a 'Brew' video and now its infesting all my recommendations and is easily one of my most hated youtube channels of all time. The worst most obnoxious clickbait I've ever seen. They make Buzzfeed look like the WSJ. Apparently the entity behind it owns a number of other similar clickbait focused channels but Brew is the worst of them.

In other youtube news I'm also suddenly getting a ton of 'debunk' videos targeting various conservative internet personalities in my recommendations for some reason.

PS: yeah I know I could block the specific channel but its already screwed my recommendations.

 

[Stasi]

This is the nightmare hellscape future we chose. Absolutely disgusting. This is why I still have a 10 year old dumb TV than can only output 720p, when it dies I probably wont replace it and just give up on the idea of having a television in my living room.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

This is the nightmare hellscape future we chose. Absolutely disgusting. This is why I still have a 10 year old dumb TV than can only output 720p, when it dies I probably wont replace it and just give up on the idea of having a television in my living room.

You could always go with a large monitor & tower combo. There's also Vizio which doesn't do this shit, so if you're going to replace your TV, better do it now while Vizio isn't doing this shit.

 

[Never Scored]

This is the nightmare hellscape future we chose. Absolutely disgusting. This is why I still have a 10 year old dumb TV than can only output 720p, when it dies I probably wont replace it and just give up on the idea of having a television in my living room.

You can still get basic 720p RCA dumb tvs at Wal-mart. Only smaller sizes though. Luckily I never bothered to upgrade past 32". If my current TV kicks the bucket and I can't get one, I'm just going to give up on ota TV and get a hdmi monitor with built in speakers or something. They're all over best buy and Amazon, I can't see them going anywhere anytime soon.

 

[ditto]

This is the nightmare hellscape future we chose. Absolutely disgusting. This is why I still have a 10 year old dumb TV than can only output 720p, when it dies I probably wont replace it and just give up on the idea of having a television in my living room.

One step closer.

 

[Nigger Respecter]

Like, half of the ads in that are already reality. Didn't have to wait several centuries

I'm at the point now where I hope the internet just dies. I would be pissed for a few days but then I'd be totally fine with it and live my life in a considerably more healthy manner

 

[Splinters RCVD ✞]

This is the nightmare hellscape future we chose. Absolutely disgusting. This is why I still have a 10 year old dumb TV than can only output 720p, when it dies I probably wont replace it and just give up on the idea of having a television in my living room.

One can only wonder if this will ever carry over onto more commonly used electronics, like computers and smartphones.

Enterprise computing is already heading down this path with cloud computing, in which you mostly rent the appropriate service and space from a cloud company.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

This is the nightmare hellscape future we chose. Absolutely disgusting. This is why I still have a 10 year old dumb TV than can only output 720p, when it dies I probably wont replace it and just give up on the idea of having a television in my living room.

Good luck 'renting' hardware.

It seems like every hardware is meant to have ONE user. Want to change account on your phone? Your ONE account is HARD CODED into the device and requires hard reset. Want to share a Playstation? You need to change EVERYTHING on your account.

I'm surprised they allow multiple people to look at the devices. The whole authentication thing seems to be just a ruse to squeeze as much money as possible from every single person in existence.

 

[stares at error messages]

I'm curious, is it possible to make an external search engine to interface with say, Youtube? Like I want to do a video search on Youtube but Youtube returns lots of commercial bloat, I want a custom search engine that can probe Youtube & return the results I actually want.

Yes. You can crawl youtube or you can create a system that uses youtube's api to search content. Api costs money web scraping costs different money. You know what's sad? DTube, one of those not youtube youtube-like websites, does not host any of it's own videos. All the videos on DTube are youtube embeds. Then DTube adds their own dumb fake internet money scam on top of youtube videos.

So, is your fake youtube going to have ads or is it going to have fake internet money?

By the way, Invidious works pretty good:

• <https://github.com/iv-org/invidious>
• <https://docs.invidious.io/Invidious-Instances.md>

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

I'm surprised they allow multiple people to look at the devices. The whole authentication thing seems to be just a ruse to squeeze as much money as possible from every single person in existence.

They tried getting rid of this, you know that right?

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

They tried getting rid of this, you know that right?

Getting rid of what?

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Getting rid of what?

Letting multiple people see the game at once, the XBONE was supposed to ship with a camera with facial recognition that would shut the game off if more than five people were detected in the room, people rightly revolted at this and they gutted the feature.

 

[Gender: Xenomorph]

Letting multiple people see the game at once, the XBONE was supposed to ship with a camera with facial recognition that would shut the game off if more than five people were detected in the room, people rightly revolted at this and they gutted the feature.

That I remember.

I thought you were referring to Netflix's "only 2 people can watch at once" bullshit.

Nobody got rid of that...

 

[Testament]

Youtube seems to get worse and worse with each passing month and update. I know a lot of others have been talking about it here, but another annoying update has hit Youtube and I only want to turn it off.
Usually I didn't mind the video previews, but I don't like the video popping out to play the whole thing on its own. If I wanted to see the video, I would click it myself. The small previews were fine because it let me determine if the video was going to be interesting or not based on the few seconds it showed. It was easier than clicking and skimming.

 

[seri0us]

Youtube seems to get worse and worse with each passing month and update. I know a lot of others have been talking about it here, but another annoying update has hit Youtube and I only want to turn it off.
Usually I didn't mind the video previews, but I don't like the video popping out to play the whole thing on its own. If I wanted to see the video, I would click it myself. The small previews were fine because it let me determine if the video was going to be interesting or not based on the few seconds it showed. It was easier than clicking and skimming.

I started using the invidous frontend with rss + mpv over a year ago when I couldnt keep using the "old" 2017 layout anymore

 

[IamnottheNSA]

What the fuck is with all of the weaponized subliminal avatars on most sites post 2017?

>avatars
Get with the times old man, it's The Current Year™©®! It's "pfp" now.
I hate newspeak so fucking much.

Also can we talk about how Google Image Search went to shit when galaxybrains at Jewgle decided to replace all the tech that just worked with neural networks, because it's the hot new shit these days?
How it used to be:
"Here's places where that image has been posted and, from what I can infer about it from the contents of those pages, is that it's a screenshot of a street from <this movie>."
What you get now:
"Neural network has identified that image as "Street", so here are pictures of streets with the same color palette as that image."

 

[Kosher Dill]

Also can we talk about how Google Image Search went to shit when galaxybrains at Jewgle decided to replace all the tech that just worked with neural networks, because it's the hot new shit these days?

It's not just the image search, all search works that way now. If you search for "Ford Taurus" you'll also get boldface hits for "car", "automobile", "vehicle", and so on. Useless.
It's another example of "you are the product" - they know it's not very good but your interactions with the results are free training for the neural network.

 

[Splinters RCVD ✞]

That I remember.

I thought you were referring to Netflix's "only 2 people can watch at once" bullshit.

Nobody got rid of that...

I briefly had a WSJ subscription, and the user agreement essentially states that I cannot share the subscriber-only content with anyone. As in, I am not allowed to let others read full articles like that, etc. And what if someone passing by just casually looks on the screen and reads? Duh.