Just because you don’t know any artists doesn’t make you cool for ripping them off.

Dude I hate ads too but I recognize that people like you and me who view content but block the way to pay for it, we’re actual parasites on the creatives. Google is just a bigger parasite and exploits both creatives and advertisers.

The people paying for content are the parasites?

I thought it was the monopolist in the middle engaging in rent-seeking behavior like this.

The real group getting screwed here are advertisers who used to get free protection against their campaigns running with excessive frequency.

This change lets Google burns their customers ad budgets of a bunch of junk duplicate impressions.

Of course it’s dripping mysterious black juice.

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It would be funny except for all the old people who are going to stop getting checks and find out Musk closed their local SS office.

The problem is not that they don’t support 13 year old CPUs.

The problem is they used to work just fine, but an update broke support for people who already bought it.

It’s a bait and switch.

No fair changing system requirements after release, or newly enforcing requirements you permitted when you sold it.

Reminds me of when they sold games on Steam and then months later tried to mandate PSN accounts for PC players.

MY message is important, not spam!

Signatures in Lemmy comments are spam.

Being little spam doesn’t make it cool. Being little spam about your copyleft views doesn’t make it cool.

I know what it is. It’s obnoxious.

Like putting your sexual kinks in a email signature or telling everyone who didn’t ask that you’re vegan.

BOOO stupid long copyright signatures!

Our words are backed by NUCLEAR WEAPONS.

But the HP experience sucks even more.

Ads and trackers

Fucking Ubisoft and their fucking logins for single player games.

I want to buy it just to review bomb and return it.

It was Duke Nukem Forever

Can someone make this make sense?

You know the Sony fanbase gets really upset whenever a game comes out on PC

Optimizing AI performance by “scaling” is lazy and wasteful.

Reminds me of back in the early 2000s when someone would say don’t worry about performance, GHz will always go up.