Thank you for the explanation, it makes sense, destroy them while they are small.

I don’t follow too much, so I don’t know what E/E/E/ is, but it would be interesting if Meta is afraid of the fediverse.

It’s a shame, I hope it will succeed. Do you think Meta’s move is related and intentional?

Me also

Exactly. In my opinion, that’s Google’s biggest mistake, and I can’t believe some people are okay with it. Everyone attacks YouTube as if they are the biggest villains, but let’s not forget that without them, most creators would be nothing. Most people here are aware of how difficult it is to maintain such a platform, yet they are unrealistic with their attacks. And yes, I am someone who has LineageOS installed, which says enough about what I think of Google, but sometimes you have to be fair. If they banned creators from having ads within their videos, I might even consider paying for premium.

You’ve got to love the open-source community! If only the whole world worked like that.

Any good alternatives?

In Germany, the family plan costs €23.99, but the worst part is that even when you pay for it, there are still ads from the creators within the videos. Essentially, you’re paying for nothing, not to mention that they are much more expensive than all other video platforms.

This Lemmy community is actually more pro-mainstream than Reddit and YouTube combined. Thank you for pointing this out. Time to go.

Google has actually shown what the future will look like, but, as always, instead of taking action, we will criticize. (little help from ollama)

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+ if(crashed) {
+     alert(e)
+ } else {
+     load_ad("vote_for_trump")
+ }

Too bad the software isn’t open source.

diff --git a/hood.js b/hood.js 
- if(false) { 
+ if(true || false) {
+     alert("Check your hood")

These are a SearXNG instance, I think they’re aware of those facts there. You can set it up to not search or search on specific pages, you can also have multiple profiles which is useful when searching for different things. It also combines multiple web search engines… I haven’t dived into the configuration that much because what’s most important to me is that it doesn’t show ads, but I assume it’s easier to install the extension, although you don’t set this up every day.

Why not change your search engine and set up a SearX instance? You can find all instances here: https://searx.space. For example, I have set it up like this: https://search.inetol.net/search?q=%s&category_general=1&language=en&time_range=&safesearch=0&theme=simple, and it works wonders. Results are still mostly from Google, or you can configure it to be whatever you want.

Or even better Tubular or LibreTube

Why Fennec? I use Mull and both have warnings that they are not fully open-source. It seems to me that only Librewolf is good, too bad it’s not available for Android.