Shotdog x)
Rikj000
joined 2 years ago
To increase their revenue.
Google likely pays for them to do so,
since then they can embed telemetry/spyware into the monitor and collect data about your usage, which they'll sell to advertisement companies and give to law enforcement if requested.
I absolutely hate it already.
Same as I hate that you can't buy non-smart TVs anymore for the same reason...
I used to block telemetry network wide using a PiHole, and the smart TV of one of my room mates made up 2/3th of the network requests after setting it up, before it realized that it's telemetry connection was unavailable.
Strongly recommend to keep these devices completely offline, and instead buy a RPi or something of the likes to flash a privacy respecting Android TV fork onto it, e.g. LineageOS.
However it does frustrate me that the licensing costs of these unwanted spyware products, which I'll refuse to use, are pushed upon the user, with nearly no ability remaining to buy a device that ships without it...
I hear you.
Personally I mostly browse through Eternity,
which easily allows to block NSFW content :)
You might miss out on new/interesting communities that way though :)
I use it very often since I tend to browse the "All" section,
however that needs blocking and post filtering to keep unwanted content out.
No thank you,
blocked the bot user + community.
Set up post filters,
block all posts with the words Elon and Trump in em.
Here's a guide for Eternity which I've written:
https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/6091026
Won't get rid of all the Elon/Musk spam,
but I'd say about 90% which is already a huge improvement.
Also blocking the news communities does wonders for mental health.
They benefit financially from feeding negative content, since research pointed out that those articles generate more ad clicks, while they don't give a damn about what it does to your mental health.
Oh did not know that, sad to hear.
They did remove traffic to the old Yuzu domains though, which now are in the hands of Nintendo, used to monitor which users use emulators.
Do you have other suggestions for promising successor forks?
Suyu, it's the continuation/fork of Yuzu:
https://suyu.dev/
Also Azahar, the continuation/fork of Citra:
https://azahar-emu.org/
- Customer: Can you make this code that does 1000 things?
- Development team: Sure, we'll think/work out a nice streamlined implementation for you.
- Development team: Delivers product
- Customer: Oh I forgot to mention, I also need this and this and this.
- Development team: You mother f*cker, there goes our streamlined implementation...
- Development team: Delivers updated product
- Result: The 1001 variant of this meme as the final product, good job customer (/s)
To me this sadly is a clear sign that Bethesda has peeked.
They've re-released Skyrim a billion times, now they're re-releasing Oblivion, no news if The Elders Scrolls 6 development has even started yet, and Starfield is a hot mess.
Feels like they're milking out the last possible drops of profit out of their IPs before closing down...
Lately these lyrics come to mind ever more often:
White Americans, what?
Nothing better to do.
Why don't you kick yourself out?
You're an immigrant too.
Song: The White Stripes - Icky Thump