How many Youtube employees would be assigned to frontend/adblock sabotage efforts? I’m wondering whether the law of diminishing returns will be observed, or will the company have sufficient resources to maintain the shenanigans indefinitely.
If it’s the latter, Youtube can rest assured my resolve will match theirs, until the damned thing gets paywalled…
So long as it’s publicly accessible, Youtube has ‘plausible credibility’ when it talks to advertisers about impression numbers. Remember, we’re not the only party YT fucks.
What sort of bizarre org politics enables a camera boil that fugly to be signed off and shipped? That is disgusting. Phone designers have to be living in a bubble - they’ve lost touch with all principles of good design. Either that or the bill-of-materials folk rank over them, and this is the designers’ attempt to accommodate them.
I stumbled across this today and thought it was worth sharing. I have used every one of these ROMs except /e/ and they are all good projects in their own right.
Level up your YouTube experience with these new Premium features (blog.youtube)
TLDR: Jump ahead button, PiP window, and smart downloads for Shorts
YouTube has now begun skipping videos altogether for users with ad blockers (www.androidpolice.com)
Huawei Pura 70 Pro teardown reveals even more China-made parts (www.gsmarena.com)
Comparison of privacy and/or security focused Android ROMs versus "Stock" Android (eylenburg.github.io)
I stumbled across this today and thought it was worth sharing. I have used every one of these ROMs except /e/ and they are all good projects in their own right.
Google Pixel 8a announced (9to5google.com)
The Google Pixel 8a starts at $499 for 128 GB and $559 for 256 GB (Obsidian only)