@branman65@Bunsen@Zergling_man@SuperSnekFriend sucks for them that competition still exists. What they *had* going for them was the ability to create something that could serve video like that, but in the last 10 years everyone else figured that out, and companies decided they didn't want to always host stuff on youtube for I guess control reasons, so now it's just everyone waiting for the other shoe to drop.
@Bunsen@Zergling_man@SuperSnekFriend@sickburnbro they lured us in with copyrighted content and relative freedom and then took that all away and ran at a loss for years so they could destroy the competition
@sickburnbro >Oh! Thank goodness Master Musk got rid of that nasty ID thing he should never have attempted to implement in the first place. >Yeah, the damage is done, but we're saved by Elon Musk. >He's so gracious! >*Continues using a bad platform* Retards, the lot of them!
@Zergling_man@branman65@sickburnbro >I usually just keep it blacklisted in hosts Need to do that for Fagbook and put Webp files in the uBlock rule set.
@branman65@sickburnbro@SuperSnekFriend 🤷 I don't click on links to it, ever, and I never visit it myself. I usually just keep it blacklisted in hosts, except on the once/twice a year I decide to rip something old from it (if it even still exists). Nothing of value was lost tbh.
@Zergling_man@SuperSnekFriend@branman65 ok, but lots of software has had bugs over the years, I honestly don't know why webp was created, the assumption would be either it was supposed to be copyright free or a better algorithm no?
Google has also used illicit means to force a monopoly with Webp, by the WebP developer himself deliberately removing support for JpegXL in Chrome's source, despite it being added a year or two prior, just so it could not gain any popularity with the 90% of browser users who use Chrome and Chromium-based browsers. He would have done it for AVIF too if it were not for it being required in some video codecs.
@branman65@Bunsen@Zergling_man@SuperSnekFriend I'm not even saying those, I'm saying a lot of these companies that use this edge cloud stuff. It's basically the same kind of stuff that google developed and they like it because they have absolute control.
@sickburnbro@branman65@Bunsen@Zergling_man I suppose it will be like Valve pushing hard for gaming on Linux with Proton and SteamOS to compete with MS Windows' hold on gaming, yet not necessarily because Gabe Newell loves FOSS. :senkoHmm:
@sickburnbro It's been happening for a year, but Niglon still went with it anyway until the scandal exploded in his face. Never trust a nigger, no matter how much emerald money he inherited. That 75 IQ can't be raised with gems.
@Rasterman seems incomplete. those that were ok with it were ok with it, no points gained in switching. The "gotten all the personal information they need" is too untestable to be useful. The biggest use in information warfare is having a constant stream of up to date info. You can get as much info as you want on the dark web, there is just no guarantees it is up to date.
@sickburnbro I don't have any inside information. Depending on when they started demanding authentications with real ID, they might already have gotten all the personal information they needed, therefore switching companies at that point looked good with Niglon worshippers and still gave Israeli intelligence a database full of users.
@Rasterman well, I'm sure the NSA and FBI can get covertly or overtly any info they want from Stripe, so it's absolutely true to some degree for sure.
I'm sure that if the right people in the US asked, Israeli intelligence would give them info they wanted, and now it's reversed. But it is possibly a slight power shift.
@Rasterman there are many things that are evidence of that, but many that point otherwise. The most compatible explanation is that jews have a ton of power in the US and they steer things towards stuff they ( and thus Israel ) want.
Since the progressive jews are getting nervous with what Israel is doing now, they could simply be looking to unhook israel to maintain their power here.