That will be believable if he doesn't win. The fact that it's cloee is absolutely nuts to an outsider.

I always lock my computer when I walk away from it so my dog can't start hacking the CIA.

Sure, but Google has created a monopoly where no one else can even compete.

Your severed arms are my house, your heart is my desktop background

You don't even need to click for them to recommend it. If you look at it longer than another thing, or take a screenshot when it's on the screen, it's a signal that you might spend more time on the app if they show those kind of things. And the chance of you spending more time on the app means more money for them through ads.

They steal people's domain names, there have been many reports over the past couple of years. If anyone has a domain with them it's recommended to transfer away. They used to be good, but I assume anyone still recommending them isn't up to date on their behavior.

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But it's not another website, it would be the web browser within the Facebook app, which could absolutely do that.

So the baddies have more chance of winning, as usual.

Can we submit on a website? I can submit a million per day

Well there was someone who was shadow banned on Reddit by mistake for years, and they thought everyone hated them because no one replied or upvoted. So it's not always the best option.

The big problem with Google is that they are in, or a part of, almost everything on the internet, and it all funnels users back to them one way or another.

Their search favors their own things, so if you search for anything, YouTube will come up most of the time. This by itself is enough to kill competition. Their search also recommends their browser heavily if you're not using it, which is how they became the most-used browser, which defaults to their search, which by default recommends YouTube in most searches.

Even if you don't use Chrome, don't worry because they will pay absolutely nuts money to be the default search on their competitors browsers, which is again more people to YouTube. And if that isn't enough, most browsers are built on Chromium, which Google maintains, meaning they can sway the course of their competitors browsers over the long term, which they are doing by selectively killing and bringing in certain technologies over years.

Android, which is also Google, I believe has YouTube installed by default, or at least all of my phones have had it. Trying to compete with defaults is almost unachievable. It's easy to think that people will change settings, but most people don't.

I agree that the technology and infrastructure needed to run YouTube is huge, and it's amazing, but that's only part of the story. Google has so much control of so many things that even if you could build the same thing, that's only the beginning.

But it's not only YouTube, it's the same for Gmail. Gmail has so much market share that they can kill competitors by making another email service seem unreliable. And all of their services point back to Gmail.

It's not just that they have a monopoly on video, they have a monopoly on the whole internet.

Some VPNs use ports 443 or 80 which won't be blocked. There's also some which disguise the traffic to appear as HTTPS. It's a cat and mouse game but I don't see the cat winning.

Get the chickens completely relaxed with smooth jazz, then steal their eggs.

Ransomware will be obsolete

Thanks for the fast updates.

One request I have is that for when opening web content, the title is just "Web". I think it would be better to show a URL, or "Web - [URL]", to double check that the loaded URL is the expected one. Maybe long press to copy the URL. Maybe a progress bar too.

Thanks again.

It watched Terminator and now it's trying to DM Arnold Schwarzenegger on Instagram

I looked on Amazon and you can get a set of 14 for £4. There's no need to act like this is unobtainably complex.

Yes because it makes them billions of dollars. It's disgusting.

I always use the audio for Lemmy captcha because some of the letters are ambiguous