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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (4 children)

"I turned up and was told what I would be filming would be a graphic rape scene," she said.

"This act could be watched for as long or as little time as the player wanted through a window, and then a player would be able to shoot this character in the head.

What game is this even? I mean, why would any game need a graphic rape scene? Who is this going to sell to?

Don't video games outside of Japan try to avoid getting AO rated any more?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's a mixed bag. Some ads (like some Youtube stuff I guess) are bundled and filtered, but most actually rely on external requests to ad exchanges. What happens mostly is that when there is an ad spot in the page you downloaded, that is in fact a generic request to an ad broker to send an ad instead of a specific ad. That then starts a real time bidding process inside multiple broker networks to find the most expensive (for the advertiser) ad they can show you based on your tracking information and demographics.

And that's for every ad spot. It's insanely intricate and frankly wasteful.

[–] [email protected] 138 points 1 month ago (3 children)

At this point, using Firefox and an ad blocker does more for the climate than paper straws or recycling.

Even with ad blocking, half of consumer internet traffic is ads. Google is contributing to increasing this ratio, where most traffic on the internet will be stuff the client did not request, contributing more to climate change than Bitcoin - not that this makes crypto look better, they are just a useful milestone to compare to with the press they get.

And this doesn't include the idiotic AI shit they do.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (1 children)

same logic

That's the point, it isn't. The good old version was built on logic where the browser would send the downloaded webpage to the extension, and uBO could weed out ads and trackers, and give you the sanitized version. uBOL works completely differently, as it has to ask the browser to clean it out, but the browser will ultimately decide what to actually do, and there are already limitations that impact ad blocking, as the browser won't accept enough changes to block all the different kinds of shit that comes through.

The other big difference in logic is distribution, uBO relies on outside blocklists to keep up with Google changing Youtube several times a day to keep sending you malware, in the new system, this is not allowed, so it's on Google to approve a new blocklist as fast as they do their changes - they won't.

It's going to be less capable, it's going to be exactly as capable as Google wants. It might as well be named the Google Ad Blocker if only that didn't discount the insane work the uBO team does to keep up with Google's shit.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago

The French hate the French, so we should be like the French

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I can't tell if you are sarcastic

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago

Bond... Jusuf Bond.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Weaving is not moving properly though either. Speeding and weaving through traffic is public endangerment where I live. We have a very good road safety record as well.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I assume that's the law pretty much everywhere. That said, most of my troubles have been with people who speed by a lot and weave through traffic. Slower cars are less of a problem because while it might be the same speed difference, I see them much better and they usually don't switch lanes erratically.

That said, I like traffic where I live now, because speeding 15% will get your license suspended, 30% will get you into jail. Traffic tends to be speedy, but coherent, everyone drives around the limit.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (24 children)

Ok, so hear me out, what if instead of treating it as a race, fight or other expression of competition, we would just treat driving as a way to get from point A to point B? Speeding on a highway is a great example of diminishing returns coupled with high risk, so why not just enjoy the ride and sit back for a moment?

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Not almost monopoly.

Google is a monopolist, and it has acted as one to maintain its monopoly,

- the US govt

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