This community usually discusses consumer rights, but nobody is discussing this initiative. Is it maybe cuz Lemmy’s majority ain’t American?

  • cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    20·
    14 days ago

    So going on an ads platform to put the icon of a corporation to claim that this is helping? I’m really having hard times to understand the logic.

  • generaldenmark@programming.devEnglish
    10·
    14 days ago

    It is very silly.

    The video is monetized, and by having some ppl change their pfp to clippy and then linking to his video - I mean congrats to Mr. Rossmann for the big $$$

  • A Wild Mimic appears!@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    8·
    14 days ago

    Clippy already was a big step in the wrong direction from Microsoft, i’m not gonna celebrate mistakes of the past because they seem benign in comparison to todays mistakes.

  • ganamasawa@lemmy.mlEnglish
    7·
    14 days ago

    No, simply because I’ve never commented on youtube, so it’d be pretty useless, if not counterproductive. Giving even more information about my political/tech ethics to Alphabet doesn’t seem smart nor useful in my position. Also, I don’t even watch youtube videos on their website now. I usually use invidious instances or newpipe.

    But I’m not against people doing it, especially if the ultimate goal is spreading awareness and building a community of people with privacy oriented ideas.

    • zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
      1·
      14 days ago

      I’m on the same boat, except for the part about not using Youtube. Unfortunately I’m caught in that spiral where I watch every clickbait_y video about new programming language, new tech stack …ect. Are you able to watch every video normally with invidious and newpipe on Desktop (Linux/Windows) ? My experience wasn’t going that well, also Youtube is so good because of the bandwidth and you easily switch quality.

      • ganamasawa@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        13 days ago

        Are you able to watch every video normally with invidious and newpipe on Desktop (Linux/Windows) ?

        In my experience, yes. For desktop usage you can use invidious from browser and freetube [https://freetubeapp.io/] as external client/software (but I’ve never used Freetube so I can’t comment on that). Newpipe is android only and I HIGHLY recommend it if you have Android.

        The problem with invidious instances is that sometimes they get pretty laggy because of server overloads (I guess? honestly idk). You also don’t have your account tailored recommendation, but in my experience you can jump around a lot, especially if your main interest are programming videos.

        Another method I use is downloading the videos I’m interested into using JDownloader 2, but that’s pretty extreme and I relied on this to combat my “algorithm addiction”. Got fed up by it months ago, so I put my favourite channels on a RSS feeds and downloaded only the videos I was truly interested into. Usually downloading videos require way less bandwidth than streaming.

        (edited for spelling errors, eh)

        • zaknenou@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
          1·
          13 days ago

          I remember using Newpipe before my Android device got stolen, but back then I got recommended so much normie stuff, and comment were flooded with nsfw accounts (weird profile pictures)

          • ganamasawa@lemmy.mlEnglish
            1·
            13 days ago

            If I remember correctly you can use ReVanced to login into your Youtube account and have an experience similar to Newpipe. You’d probably have better recommendations (the bot comments depends on the channel though). I’ve never looked into it, but it seems a popular choice.

  • Luke@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    14 days ago

    I’m from the USA and I have no idea what you’re talking about. What’s the context here, what is adopting a corporate marketing image as my profile picture supposed to accomplish?

  • moosetwin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    14 days ago

    Louis should know better, and that makes me wonder about his intentions. I’ve supported him in the past but this just has me confused.

    Edit: I’m not entirely sure this is malicious, but I think he knows that this goes against his own advice on how to start change, and is too stubborn to admit it.

      • joel@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1·
        1 day ago

        I genuinely do think it’s a great way to bring people together and give people a sense of common purpose, like a rallying cry or something. Sure the symbol might not be perfect, but it’s better than nothing!