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  • BenLeMan@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldThe cookie dilemma
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    23 days ago

    GDPR wasn’t designed to prevent this. It’s a simple choice: accept tracking and get stuff for free OR pay them for stuff with no tracking.

    Everything doesn’t have to be free on the Internet

    Some companies got into trouble because their pop-ups weren’t clear enough as to the consumer’s rights per GDPR. So they paid the fine and fixed their wording.

    When I want to read something e.g. on t-online.de, I do it in a private browsing window. Not perfect, because of fingerprinting, but better than nothing. Or I skip the article and go somewhere else.













  • BenLeMan@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldSoon
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    6 months ago

    Cries in 4K monitor

    Seriously, I love the concept of NewPipe but the low resolution bugs me too much. I’m holding out with Firefox and uBlock as long as I can.

    And guess what, if it gave me an ad free experience at an affordable price I actually wouldn’t mind paying for YT Premium.





  • Bink videos were the hot shit for games for a while, and RAD Game Tools started a whole era of standardization for multimedia processes that culminated in DirectX. With computing power increasing along with the market share of PCs, using standardized libraries for audio & video drivers became the sensible thing to do. Previously you had games programmers eking out every iota of performance by fine tuning that stuff at an assembly level (the Origin games with their memory managers and Chris Sawyer’s amazing if kind of insane feat in creating Transport Tycoon come to mind).