Jamie

I've had a lot of games that I found online, thought they looked fun, then discovered I actually had them in my steam library already and never once touched them.

Driver definitely didn't look confident in their ability or seem to have any kind of plan.

Political memes are just the non-grandma version of political cartoons.

Yes.

There are far too many ways for an immortality wish to make your life hell in ways that a money wish uh, wishes it could.

I see it that way. You don't dive into some strange without protection, don't let your computer do it with websites.

Chaotic evil: Send SIGSEGV

For as long as people have complained about YouTube ads even before they started the crackdown, I don't think it'll matter. Tons of people didn't block them even before the option went away.

Personally, I bit the bullet and got Premium last year because I didn't feel like maintaining a DNS solution on my wifi and like using my TV for it. YouTube is basically the main form of "TV" that I watch when I'm in a couch potato mood. Most actual TV shows that come out aren't interesting to me.

I'm not really advocating everyone just go buy premium. Even in my case I'm not jumping up and down to give Google my money by any means. But for my situation it's an expense that I justify for myself

I assume you're talking about tracking score on profiles ala Reddit? There's nothing stopping anyone from making their own client or modifying lemmy-ui to do that if someone really cares.

But honestly, Lemmy has enough bots posting stuff that I wouldn't want to bring more incentive for karma farming in.

I helped someone I know out with a thing on their computer and got blasted by ads because they didn't use an ad blocker.

Those two minutes on the Internet really had me questioning how anyone manages to use it raw without going insane.

I block ads on all my devices, but I assume they're scams by default when I do see them.

I use adnauseum on my computer so it blocks the ads, but also sends a request simulating a click to the ad network. Based on average CPM, I've cost advertisers like $300 so far.