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"Asshole Design" rant of the day. I really like the "minutecast" feature on the Accuweather website and it's really helpful for someone living off-grid miles from pavement such as myself.
However, they've set it up to generate false clicks for their advertisers, and to drop their users into a VERY unwanted ad encounter. On the mobile site, the Minutecast page loads, and then at the 5 second mark when the user is tapping the time scroll button, the site pops an ad down over the screen faster than you can avoid tapping it. I was NEVER going to shop at Best Buy or be a tourist in Canada before their ads got maliciously served to me by my "choice" to click on their ads. But you can be damn sure I'm now very negatively predisposed toward these outfits! I wonder if these advertisers realize how badly they are getting screwed by this false click game?
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I posted a picture a whole ago on here of a police robot dog with a giant alien neck breaking a lock.
We need to learn how to fight them before it's too late. That or develop some good exo skeletons that don't have minds of their own and solely human operated or something
One day it won't be this docile robot dog it will be a cybernetic Hellbot that you can't fight back against and can't shoot either
That day is already here.
if memory serves, the Chinese government used robot dogs with mounted machine guns to keep people in their homes during the scamdemic.
Just search "police robot" on YouTube. Prepare to be coldly terrified.
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I keep warning you guys about robot dystopia
Now they're making and training robots to be resistant to blunt force. One day it won't be this docile robot dog it will be a cybernetic Hellbot that you can't fight back against and can't shoot either
I'm willing to die on this hill
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@MentORPHEUS sound like a case of someone that would do with an alternative yt player, many of them. Although even watching a yt film on a mobile browser should be in the browser's history as long as it was not embedded on some other website
Weird form of censorship and discourse-steering that I've seen happen too many times to dismiss as coincidence.
I like to listen to podcasts while I work, and set them to 1.5-1.75X speed. What keeps happening is, Youtube's mobile browser site (I don't use the app) interprets clicks on the control panel as a "back" button for the entire video. This dumps you back onto the homepage, where the back button takes you to the prior video you watched, and takes the video in question out of your feed, not even to be found in the "continue watching" panel if these are presented during scrolling. You must manually crawl your way back to the video by typing the exact URL text into the browser, or drilling down by going to the channel and menu-ing your way to either the videos or live section because it doesn't show in your feed of that channel's contents either. Tapping the edges of the screen to skip ahead or back, WELL away from the margins of other control icons on the screen, also invokes out of nowhere commands that drop you elsewhere from the video you're trying to watch.
This ONLY ever happens with content that challenges the Party Line. Scores of times i've had it happen, compared to exactly ZERO on mundane general-interest channels and topics!
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@MentORPHEUS oh wow, and that dude normally likes all the plant-based imitation meats.
Just how bad was this crap?!
Wired magazine article about an Israeli company's plant based and 3D printed steak and fish products. Spoiler: the reviewer pans them.
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