Zedstrian @ Zedstrian @lemmy.dbzer0.com

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The problem is that society has transitioned to a point where most people essentially go to Google and Facebook for all their information. Given the monopolistic power of such platforms on public opinion, there is a very strong societal interest to ensure that actual news, not merely the propaganda of the highest bidder, is what people have access to.

The responsibility of Google to pay for it can be argued, but as real reporting will always cost more to produce than AI slop pushed by propagandists, there is arguably a public interest in that as well. The alternative is legitimate news more often than not ending up with more ads and paywalls than propaganda, which will just result in more people reading sources based on less reliable reporting.

If that's what the French want, then it's Google's obligation to comply and simply adjust advertising rates as needed.

Even so, there is a societal interest in objective news being available to the public, which means that search engines should be required to carry such content, profitable or not. All the more so due to Google's monopolistic grip on the search engine market.

That won't keep them from harvesting user data.

Not the corporate one, with 680 employees in Washington, D.C.

To keep Radio Free Europe from degrading to the level of Russian propaganda, any and all fascist influence must be removed and kept out of its administration.

If Radio Free Europe gets EU funding, it should be reincorporated in Europe and the remainder of its US operations relocated to Prague to avoid any American influence on its reporting and continued defense of democracy.

Most should offer alternative support options, even if they can't promote them directly in their apps (a monopolistic practice on the part of app stores), given that forking over 30% of a subscription's cost to Apple or Google isn't something I'd want to do just to support an app's development.

"Shareholders want them to pump out loot boxes, not novel content!" -Exec, probably

A bit tone-deaf on her part when Trump's doing everything he can to make sure Ukrainians won't be speaking Ukrainian anymore.

The author themselves is already conflating nation and country by stating that a 'nation' requires territory. While the Jewish people are a 'nation' in the sociological sense, the author is using the term in its political sense, as would apply to the subset of Jews who are Zionists, rather than the Jewish people as a whole.

The author is misleading readers by painting the editors as having the goal of denying the right of the Jewish people to territory. Unlike Zionism, it is not a nation with an inherent political basis, but rather one with strong cultural and ethnic ties.

Not all Jews are Zionists, so the using the word 'nation' would incorrectly conflate the two.

Definitely a good idea for mobile, though if on desktop, I'd suggest bypassing the website altogether and using a torrent aggregator such as Jackett, which can be integrated into qBittorrent via an extension.

Since you're using Android TV already, I'd recommend configuring it to remove the ads via the use of a custom launcher, and install SmartTube Next for an ad-free, account-free YouTube.

In the case of the Hisense TV I picked for my grandparents, I found that Android TV kept wanting to revert to the default launcher, so I used Launcher Manager to keep Projectivity Launcher as the default. While you can uninstall preinstalled apps via ADB, they tend to come back automatically, making the 'hide app' option of Projectivity Launcher useful to remove bloatware from the menu.

There's also apps that can remap the remote buttons to open custom apps. Couldn't get it to work on the Hisense TV due to there being a glitch with enabling accessibility options, but seemingly it works in most cases. Also note that unless you're able to root the Android TV installation (also couldn't do it for the Hisense TV) and install the SmartTube Bridge app, the Google Assistant button will still try to send all voice commands to the default YouTube app, so voice searches need to be done in the SmartTube app directly.

If you also want movies and TV shows, I'd also recommend installing Stremio with the Torrentio addon. While it needs a paid debrid account to be useful (about 3€ a month in the case of Real-Debrid), it's a suitable catchall replacement for Netflix, Disney+, and other streaming services.

In the case of 1337x.to, the megathread lists 1377x.to as the fake replica of it. In terms of quality, 1337x.to is one of the best public torrent indexers.

While I personally prefer not to use YTS releases due to their low quality, and can't seem to find a legitimate YTS link that yts.mx would be the replica of, as long as you're downloading via Prowlarr rather than going to the website itself, the only risk is the trustworthiness of the releases, rather than the possibility of ads or otherwise unwanted links on the website itself.

Thanks for the tip; seems to have worked. 👍

We can celebrate if and when they're actually reinstated and the people who put them out of a job are put out of a job themselves.

Sounds like just another distraction from meaningful issues, given that actual eggs from Canada and Mexico are being turned away.

Also, one of the ones I wasn't going to block seems to also be instance-banned: !linuxmint@lemmy.world. Is there a reason for its (presumed) banning?

Thanks again for your dedication! 👍

Also, while I was going to make a separate post about what the comment in the example GIF discussed, might be just as worth asking here.

While most unblockable communities were removed from the Lemmy Explorer list when blocked instance filtering was added, a few from unblocked instances remained on the list. After inquiring at !div0@lemmy.dbzer0.com, it seems that these few communities are blocked at the instance level. Is there any means by which communities blocked by a user's home instance could be detected and filtered out of the Lemmy Explorer list?

Blocked it 👍

Two other communities on the list, one from feddit.rocks and one from lemm.ee, seem to be on the list too given that they're also unblockable, and should probably stay that way given that unlike the thunder one, they seem to target specific Lemmy users.

I guess I'll ask the Arctic developer if there's a way to detect instance-blocked communities to filter those two communities from my list as well.