sovietknuckles [they/them]

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Use Invidious or Piped

Maybe it’s because I’m on a VPN, but I never get ads

Starting in Android 15, radio vendors will be able to add support for Android’s new location privacy HAL, which can tell the radio not to share location data for any non-emergency requests.

A request not to share it is not control, it’s just a request. So any law enforcement seeking your location would receive it anyway

They’re paying for their own lawyer. Support them at https://www.patreon.com/yuzuteam]

Edit: They’re not fighting it, don’t donate

They offer legal aid to high-profile open source cases. So if you want them to notice, raising awareness of Nintendo’s current actions against Yuzu is a good step

https://www.patreon.com/yuzuteam

If you wish to support us a different way, please join our Discord and talk to bunnei. You may also contact: donations@yuzu-emu.org.

Or you could wait until the EFF commits to representing Yuzu (like they did for youtube-dl) and donate to the EFF at that point

There’s a request on r/yuzu for a GoFundMe, but it has no response from the devs so far.

The author seems to be upset that a Google accessory doesn’t work with a non-Google phone, because they expect Android to just mean Android. If you don’t want to be locked into Google hardware, buy an Android phone from literally anyone except Google

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Face unlock on the Pixel 8 doesn’t compromise on security.

Try saying that after a cop unlocks your phone by holding it up to your face (legal btw)

nitter.net is really slow/doesn’t work. Faster nitter instance: https://nitter.cz/MishaalRahman/status/1701304928700899749

Agreed

I think they’re talking about ads on download pages making it more difficult to click the correct download button when pirating

Aurora users unaffected

Threads can only display ads on their app

What is stopping them from adding ads to the website?

if lemmy.world adds ads, people can just not use the lemmy.world website

That’s what I imagine happening, a few people can’t stand it and leave or use uBlock, and the rest of the userbase gets served ads

As far as i know they cant force other apps to show ads

Not unless ads are a footer or something in post or comment content. That’s an intellectual property gray area, I wonder what will happen.

However Meta decides to serve ads on Threads or Threads content. Whatever it takes, Threads will definitely do ads, as they are owned by an advertising company, but we don’t really know how LemmyWorld will do ads until those ads are live.

[…] it sounds like you’re arguing that the downtime is because of massive user registrations and not from an attack like they said themselves […]

I have no idea where their downtime is from. If it is DOS-related, though, they would protect against it using a DDOS protection service like CloudFlare, which costs $$$

Lemmy.world hasn’t done anything to suggest they would be a significant privacy and security risk to users, at least not yet

They have, though. The LemmyWorld admins doxxed a user who they believed (incorrectly) to be Hexbear admin CARCOSA@hexbear.net. Source: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/comment/1754850

[…], pushing ads to federated servers or collecting and selling user data would absolutely change that I guarantee it.

We’ll see, but the larger they grow, the more permanent they get, and ads only affects that so much.

I didn’t and won’t go as far to accuse the instance owners themselves of being behind the attack but I won’t say it isn’t a user from Hexbear because nether you or I can prove that it isn’t.

Hexbear is not more suspect than other instances, and there is no reason to name-drop Hexbear, alone, in particular. If they’re being DOSed, then whoever is responsible is most likely involved in a community that has a culture of DOSing in general, like a Chan, maybe the same one that has actively been responsible for vandalizing Lemmy instances.

How do they expect to serve ads to people with that abysmal uptime that they have.

The probably see it differently, that their uptime is limited by their funding, and additional revenue would help uptime.

Maybe it will maybe they’ll be financially successful but I bet they’re probably also going to get defederated and therefore not platform successful.

The current logic I’ve seen about why instances continue to federate with LemmyWorld is that they’re “too big to fail”, the same logic applied to Threads, and I don’t see ads changing that. If Threads uses a more PR-friendly way of running ads when they inevitably do, maybe LemmyWorld will copy whatever ad-serving method that is.

[…] and that’s probably just from one person from hexbear who’s pissed at them, […]

You probably saw someone else say this, rather than making it up yourself, but Hexbear does not DOS anyone, please don’t repeat misinformation

They’re not risking legal troubles unless they receive and don’t comply with a DMCA takedown request. Like I said elsewhere, this is about making their site friendly to advertisers.

Concern trolling about the legality of discussing piracy is just a distraction. Their goal is to serve ads on their site, and removing all references to piracy is a step towards that.