Comments by "Gareth Hart" (@tgheretford) on "Mental Outlaw" channel.

  1. Plot twist - even the paywalled services still collect and profit from your data.
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  2. It gets worse with Twitter - government agencies, politicians statements, weather alerts, public transport information, local news and customer service information are all sent increasingly exclusively via Twitter so these agencies, companies and individuals don't have to pay money to inform the public via their own infrastructure. Disenfranchising anyone without a Twitter account.
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  3. I think that's the point. VPN's have been the bane of Governments so it was only ever a case of when, not if, they would take action against them.
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  4. Vivaldi is in the same position as Brave, built in ad and tracker blocking separate from extensions. And what's to stop Google and Mozilla collaborating to expand their war on ad-blockers?
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  5. If everything on the Internet and real life becomes "as a service", and even FOSS is looking at that model, then life will become very expensive very quickly. The days of buying something and owning it are gone and companies never want to go back to that model. The idea that you need to pay a subscription fee for your alarm clock, bed, meals, table, TV, computer, smartphone and so on disturbs me. The ads and data gathering won't stop, you're just now paying for the privilege. Personally I can see YouTube going down the road of charging uploaders for hosting and doing so via their Google One storage from a set date onwards to make more money.
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  6. Privacy is a privilege for politicians, the royals and corporations. Everyone else will be expected to reveal everything to anyone else at any time.
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  7. Eventually they will do the same with videos uploaded to YouTube. Mark my words.
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  8. It's the way everything is going - everything as a service where you own nothing and pay monthly fees for everything. Even FOSS is looking at "monthly donations".
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  9. Actually turns out that even if you buy a TV or a car for example, you're still the product.
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  10. In the same way that Edge is just used to download Chrome on Windows, Windows will just be used to download a Linux distribution.
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  11. It's only a matter of when, not it, Mozilla and Google strike a deal to end Manifest v2 in Firefox and derivatives.
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  12. As a result of what's coming out of the Internet Archive case, start buying books sooner rather than later. You'll be paying a subscription fee for the bike with additional fees for features and you'll be renting the garden when property is purchased by venture capitalists.
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  13. A similar concept is about to become law in the UK under the Online Safety Bill. To the point where encrypted chat apps are preparing to exit the UK and block UK users. The UK is also likely going to adopt the EU's regulations as well despite Brexit.
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  14.  @emiel333  The ironic thing is that in the UK, websites are now asking you to pay to opt-out of personal advertising, sold as "privacy as a service", which is ironic. So either they gather your data or you sign up and they gather your data.
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  15. It's worse. They charge far more than standard streaming platform prices. The odd thing is, YouTube allows content creators to use their storage and bandwidth completely gratis even for non-monetised content. Google isn't going to allow that forever. I suspect things will move to Google One storage for videos.
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  16. North Korea - USB sticks sent over the border to provide citizens with media and information Europe - USB sticks sent over the border with Linux distribution ISO's and Android APK's.
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  17. They really want to get rid of Manifest v2.
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  18. I think it's only a matter of time.
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  19. I heard a discussion earlier on what the Internet will be like in a decade. The commentators agreed that it would become more segregated by walled gardens per state with the Internet only being used to distribute approved traffic between states. Governments will enact control of the Internet on the grounds of "safety" and "national security". What was considered the exclusive realm of authoritarian countries is now being adopted by western countries. The fear is that the days of a free and open Internet across the vast majority of the world is coming to an end by the end of this decade.
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  20. Need your physical alarm clock to wake up? $4.99/month. Clothing? You rent them now. Meals? Delivered weekly as a service. Your car is now on a subscription model where you need to unlock features for multiple fees per month. And you don't own it. Your TV is $60 a month, serves ads and gathers your data for data brokers. And your bed requires subscription fees for the frame, mattress, mattress protector, pillows, duvet and covers. What a dystopian world we are heading towards.
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  21.  @VADemon  This will be mandated for all installs, eventually the UEFI vendors will remove the secure boot toggle. One less thing to debug.
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  22. If someone doesn't want to be inundated with queries and requests, then the right course of action is to not have any communication channels available to the public, go full incognito. I can't be bothered dealing with all the dog-piling, gaslighting and bad faith arguments on social media. So what did I do? Did I complain about users on social media being toxic, entitled and demand a way to gatekeep via a paywall? No. I removed myself from social media so I don't have to deal with all of that so I can focus on things I want to get done.
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  23. Inevitable they'll switch to hosting videos on Google One and charging uploaders for the privilege.
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  24.  @yaldabraxas  Smart TV's already do it, including the ones that cost thousands of pounds. Likely somewhere in your TV's settings, you will find a privacy policy and a personalised ads setting.
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  25.  @half-death8095  Vignette ads are the new pop-up ads.
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  26. The UK Government doesn't just want back doors, they want to ban all the locks on your doors and windows. If a bad actor breaks in, tough luck because they're too busy arresting people for criticising the Government. And who is one of the groups pushing the eradication of privacy and encryption - the UK's leading children's charity, the NSPCC. They're on record saying that these things enable child abusers so they're lobbying to ban the lot. In the UK, treat everything as if anyone can see, hear or view it.
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  27. Firefox will also be expected to bend the knee. There is no way Google is going to allow Firefox to take market share or still allow ad-blocking, even with recent anti-trust rulings against Google.
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  28. He states this paywall plan is to verify the identity of every single person on the social media platform. Hours later, the UK's Online Safety Bill, which will require ID verification to access any website that has anything not deemed suitable for children, passes toward Royal Assent into law. Elon might be seeing what's coming and announced this accordingly so that he is in prime position to profit from the need for everyone to verify their ID to abide by the new law when it is enacted.
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  29. "It'll only be rolled out to Copilot+ PC's, Windows 11 users won't have it roll out to them..." Chinny reckon, as we say in the UK.
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  30. Bitlocker also requires Secure Boot. Good luck getting Linux to work nice with that for anyone without tech knowledge.
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  31. mozilla: we're an ad company now firefox user : panik
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  32. The UK is considering the idea of an intranet for residents (as well as banning VPN'S) in the long term. As a result of all the unrest we've seen in the last few weeks. Business can still trade worldwide while communication is locked down and regulated by Government for the masses.
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  33. Apple are still not in compliance with the law. The UK Government wants all encryption gone. Until then, Apple faces legal consequences unless they exit the UK market. And then the public will notice when their iDevices stop working for legal reasons.
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  34. Did people really think that Governments would leave VPN's alone and that they would never be targeted for action that would require them to comply or be unable to trade in that country? This won't end in India and Governments are happy to take the hit from losing investment from VPN providers. Same with persecution over political dissent and the criminalisation of pornography. The UK's Online Safety Bill? Belgium's anti-encryption law? I'm amazed the UK hasn't gone down the road of whitelisting the Internet. Yet.
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  35. The one fatal flaw in the concept of decentralised content is that YouTube wishes to completely control the content that is hosted, served and viewed, likely with Widevine DRM in time for all ad-supported and Premium content. YouTube's whole model and ideology goes completely at odds with the mindset and desires of the alternative video streaming sites. And ultimately, time is running out for the ad-funded model being the exclusive way to fund the running of YouTube as a loss leader. I think a more likely situation is that going forward from a pre-determined date, YouTube will put all the content it funds behind a DRM protected paywall with ad-funded non-monetised content being hosted on Google One, at the uploaders cost past the free storage allowance.
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  36.  @nothanks3236  Or more likely, ask for videos to be moved to Google One if they want them to be continued to be accessible on YouTube. Eventually all uploaders will have to use their free space or pay to upload.
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  37. It's not an "ad", it's "sponsored" content. Premium only promises "ad-free" content, not "sponsor-free" content. Anyone watching YouTube on TV, go look at what they call ads. It has the word "sponsored" on every one of them. A contractual loophole waiting to be exploited.
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  38. Worth nothing that on YouTube via TV, it doesn't call the ads "ads", it calls all of them "sponsored" content. You pay Premium to remove ads, not sponsored content. Sounds like a loophole waiting to be exploited.
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  39. Worse still that politicians and customer service reps are increasingly using Twitter as their only way of communication with their constituents and customers.
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  40. Everything is being walled garden and paywalled. Reddit will do the same. YouTube will fully go behind a paywall. User generated content is being given to these sites and then restricted and sold back to you. Free speech (registration and fees apply).
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  41.  @akarifox63  The joke applies to Edge as well despite it's Chromium base.
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  42. Casting to TV now has a (semi-)permanent Premium banner on screen now until you dismiss it - and only until the next ad break. They want to nudge people toward Premium by making YouTube so frustrating to use with advertisements, banners and annoyances. YouTube ultimately wants to go behind a paywall but they can't do it instantly because there will be massive backlash and bad publicity.
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  43. Until the inevitable bait and switch.
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