I have no idea what I'm doing.

While this article is a lot more pro-military than I'd prefer (though unsurprising given the source) it still gives a pretty good summary of the situation.

A snippet:

It gets so bad he's always being woken up by adverts that offer insomnia cures and better bedding that play when he tries to sleep.

So he buys the ad-free tier, and it's great... for a few months. And then he starts getting adverts from 'premium partners'. So he goes up a level... and the same thing happens.

So he jailbreaks his wallpaper and sends all the ad servers to 0.0.0.0 and voila... he can sleep.

Until this SWAT team blows his door off and drag him off to jail. The Ad companies are suing him for loss of revenue for the products he' notionally have bought if he'd watched their adverts, based on some weird 'The average consumer buys X products with an average value of Y' calculation.

The judge is like 'well I dun wanna annoy the sponsors' so he RICO's this guy's house and possessions and sends him to jail.

... which is a nice relaxed non-volent offender jail for the corporately disenfranchised. But because these people have no money... there's no ads and now he's happy because the only place he's free... is in prison.

Which at the time was a bit much and now it's like: Called it.

Elon's suing companies for not advertising because he's losing revenue. He's also cranking the price of Ad Free Twitter. Disney and Amazon play adverts on their paid service when services used to be free because of the adverts... and now you have to pay to watch the adverts or go up a couple of tiers.

-visits being banned in favor of video calls that still require your loved ones to come to the prison and never see you irl (and you are charged by the MINUTE for these calls)

-pay-by-the-minute access to BOOKS

-being banned from buying literally anything except from overpriced commisaries that charge hugely inflated prices to their LITERALLY captive customer base

-often being subject to extremely underpaid and unpaid slave labor, often in extremely dangerous conditions -dangerously inedible food provided and many necessities of life insufficiently or even not provided at all, in order to keep the captive customer base buying stuff -ntm in prison you can be forced to work as a slave for years in a job that you will be unable to do for pay after prison, bc they don't actually PAY for your work if you have a criminal record

and that's only just touching on the more economic aspects!!

unfortunately in real life having no money is almost never an escape for anything 😭

if you want to know what dystopian direction capitalism will take next for people like you, look at what's happening to systematically vulnerablized people, especially those in prisons.

sorry ik this may feel slightly beside the point, but it is genuinely a really good idea to pay attention what is happening in the prisons!!

This post talks about a new DM feature in youtube. What it fails to mention is that as part of this new feature is that when you send someone a link to a video, and they open it in the youtube app, they will see who sent them the link. Specifically, your channel name.

If your google account name is your real name, so is your channel name by default.

This means the new default behavior is that everyone you send a youtube link to will see your full name if they open it in the mobile app.

To turn this off:

Go to your youtube app settings

Go to Privacy

Turn off "Channel visibility for shared links"

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