The user you are answering to isn’t making “the other party” any kind of moral hero, it’s literally just criticizing TikTok.

You already are on lemmy…

Well, that’s the law. If it helps you, I think China should ban Facebook… Oh, wait.

While this may be true, this comment has strong “I have a girlfriend in a another school” vibes.

You can also see it as retribution.

“Get bought by a Chinese entity or get banned” is the default posture of the Chinese government. BMW China is Chinese. Samsung China is Chinese. Panasonic China is Chinese. GM China is Chinese. If TikTok US is forced to be American, it wouldn’t be the most unfair thing this week.

Woosh

By a much bigger margin than the first time. After seeing what he did the first time. Triple wham.

Or south Africa.

It’s a rare W, but a welcome one.

You look at the screen while watching video, making ads profitable (they obstruct the view making you click something to close it, hijacking the click and generating visits).

If you do it for music people walk away and nobody clicks on the ads.

Again, spoken truly as someone who never paid for bandwidth, storage, compute, power, rent, ac, salaries…

The author doesn’t consent to you blocking ads, simple as that. Might consent to skipping. Some. In certain situations.

A shop giving you a free sample of cheese doesn’t mean you can fill your pockets with the contents of the cash register.

It’s the tolerance paradox all over again.

Then don’t watch/read the content. Don’t consent Samsung/appke/Walmart getting your money? Don’t buy their shit. Ez.

You struggle also with the concept of consent? Smh…

That’s the problem. If the use case is super cool, and 99% of people have no knowledge (or motivation) to set it up for themselves, the online services will keep existing, and the bubble won’t really burst.

Even if some single companies fail (and they will, there some truly horrendous ideas getting funding), the big players will buy the GPUs wholesale before they hit ebay.

They already thrive, so what’s the point of not doing it?

In 2028 Democrats will run Eric Trump (Don Jr for the red team).

Same here, Samsung from 2019.

The competition doesn’t sound worse to me. My smart tv from 2019 is rock solid.

Sony is just known for amazing picture quality and abysmal software, so that’s just par for the course. If you want a stable TV return it and get some of the other models using the same panel (IIRC a QD OLED from Samsung Display).