At 1:40: If your breath is ???, or you’re on a long ???
I think that's "if your breath is mean, or you run a long thing"
Idk the others
It happened even while I was typing the above comment. Replying to you now doesn’t seem to do it, maybe because only 2 comments are visible in this view. I guess the full comment thread also tries to load new comments automatically?
Also, scrolling around sometimes abruptly loses momentum, which is very jarring on iOS.
Microsoft is trying to buy their way to the top. I’m curious about what will happen to gamepass if the Activision deal falls apart. In all likelihood, some executives will lose their jobs and Xbox strategy could change.
Throwing infinity amounts of money at the game industry may no longer seem like such a good idea to a different leadership team.
So I’m not the only one experiencing weird jittery scrolling that jumps around on its own for no reason?
Lmao this reminds me of one time when I opened up Amazon, and my homepage was suddenly filled with My Little Pony products, various stuffed animals, and lube. Idk why that happened, I'm not a brony or a furry or anything like that, and the products disappeared after about a day. Maybe it was because I clicked something brony/furry related on reddit? or it might've been a joke from a bored Amazon employee or something.
It was funny at the time, but it also made me realize how problematic targeted advertising can be. What if someone that doesn't know me that well sees it and thinks I'm a weirdo, and decides to not hire me or give me a loan or accept my college application, or whatever. Or what if I want to secretly look up divorce lawyers, and then every site/video I open starts spamming me with loud obnoxious ads for divorce lawyers? How many intimate personal details about a person can be deduced from the ads they're seeing?!
So yeah, ad blockers and tracking protection for me all day every day. I refuse to give Youtube my money as that's the only choice I have as a consumer to fight back against business models I disagree with. If they want to block people like me, they're free to do so at any time.
The other element to this is the lack of competition. Since companies funded this way don’t need to turn a profit for a long time, they can very easily kill their competitors who do need to be profitable to survive.
So when the time comes for the company to turn a profit, there are few if any competitors left to put pressure on them, giving them the power to do what they want, and leaving consumers with no other options.
Actually I was referring to the background of the comment being colored yellow instead of white. I think it's because it was recently posted when I saw it. It's not yellow anymore, but another comment here posted more recently did appear yellow until after it passed the 10 minute mark.
So I guess lemmy just highlights comments that are less than 10 minutes old. IIRC reddit had a feature like that for gold users, but it only did it after you already visited the comments section at least once.
I didn't even know there was a monospace version of it. I think I'm going to try it out lol
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