Yeah, I did that, but then it refused to let me log in, telling me the version was not secure or something.

Older versions appear to refuse to talk with their servers, at least that was the case for me.

This prompted me to move away from Authy, and looking it up, it doesn’t allow you to export your TOTP tokens. There were some workarounds but then have been plugged, I tried.

Mostly switched over to Bitwarden’s equivalent. I’ve been using their password manager for many many years now and am very happy with it. They have an export feature in a few different formats.

Who is Brandon?

Also just donated

Co-op video games say that’s the max number of friends you can have, so it must be true.

That took a lot less time than I expected.

I expected at least another 6 months to pass before a major breach around an age verification provider to pass. I didn’t even know they were in place yet.

I didn’t know Mullvad did a DNS service as well as a VPN, let alone that it has some ad blocking profiles. Thanks for that!

I didn’t ask for this. 😭

Can the EU stop winning?

You can’t void your warranty by rooting your phone. They claim you can, but that’s only their extended warranty, not that statutory one.

One problem I have with it is that it’s harder than ever to get to the members list. You have to click a thing at the top of the screen rather than just swiping from the right.

Otherwise I’m mostly happy.

This looks like my old student accommodation

I live in the UK, and because of Brexit we won’t get this. Thanks Nigel Farage.

And users are fully within their rights to circumvent the blocks

This is factually false (depending on your country).

From a quick Google search (ironic) the following seems to be true:

Blocking is not, in itself, illegal. However, circumventing restrictions on content, like what YouTube has added recently, is.

See this article: https://blockadblock.com/adblocking/adblockers-dont-break-the-law-except-when-they-do/

Oh wow that really is expensive. Americans do make more money on average than Europeans, but goddamn does your stuff cost a lot of money sometimes.

I think it’s €15 here?

EDIT:

Ah, for the family plan. Just reread. Not sure what that is here.

I hadn’t thought of it from a privacy perspective.

I couldn’t imagine using YouTube not signed in because of the dogs**t recommendations you get then. I imagine if you’re signed in the privacy loss is not significantly less than if you paid for Premium too.

I also use GMail so I’m already f***ed from that. I’ve basically given up on privacy at any other time than when I want to do private things, and I use a VPN and private browser.

Controversial take but:

• YouTube are fully within their rights to crack down on adblockers, as they have done in the past. Content delivery is not free, and they are not a charity.
• YouTube provides two ways to “pay” for your content: with ads, or by paying for premium.
• Tech companies have an unhealthy habit of making things free or cheap to gain a userbase, then increasing the price. The biggest problem with this imo is that it sets expectations with users that these things should be free
• I am not going to get into an argument about what price is “fair” or whether Google can “afford it”. All I know is that for now, they continue to run YouTube, but nothing stops them from shutting it all down tomorrow if they decide it’s not profitable enough.

As for myself personally, I watched YouTube with ads for the last 2 or 3 years, and more recently I decided to start paying for YouTube Premium.

YouTube Premium made sense for me because:

• I was spending more than 3 hours a day on YouTube (in the background or as the thing I’m actively watching.
• I could afford it now that my financial situation had improved
• Creators get significantly more money from YouTube Premium watchers (or so I’ve heard)

Before all of that, I used to use YouTube Vanced (RIP) and NewPipe, both great though not entirely legit ways of bypassing ads and downloading videos. I still use the latter to archive the really good content I come across.

If you’re ok to pay for YouTube, but it’s too expensive for the value you get out of it, there are alternative approaches. You can spoof your location and buy YouTube Premium in another country, like Turkey or India, and get it for as low as $2 a month. Google doesn’t crack down on this much at the time of writing.

Note that there are also blind users on Lemmy. (They left Reddit partially because they weren’t well supported there).

It’s a good idea to transcribe your picture / video posts into the text description.

Cyberpunk music starts playing

Getting water to places that don’t have access to fresh water is not a minor inconvenience.