This is terrible news.

The last bullet point might be the most impactful. Google should know the rules by now.

YouTube's pricing is a mess. Here's a quick breakdown of their offer here in France :

• YouTube Premium (so video + music): 12€/m

• YouTube Music Premium (music only, obviously): 10€/m

One would assume based on this that Google values YouTube at only 2€/m per user. But anyway, let's take a look at their family plans for a laugh:

• YouTube Premium (6 users): 18€/m

• YouTube Music Premium (6 users still): 15€/m

Let's put aside the price discrepancy. 18/6 = 3€/m per user. All signs point to Google being ok with making between 2 and 3€ per user per month, yet such an offer doesn't exist. Hell, make it 4€, even. People would flock to it. But no, they're just being greedy.

People suggesting DNS filtering are missing the point. Yes, people should do it, but for cosmetic stuff you need a browser extension.

Anyway. I used to use Adguard. Like you, I noticed how slow it was making Safari. Worse, sometimes it simply wouldn't work even though it was supposedly active.

I gave Ghostery a try. It worked. No slowdowns or anything. Then I settled for Wipr. You can't add custom lists to it, but at least it works as intended and doesn't seem to slow down Safari.

I only ditched Ghostery because I don't exactly trust them. Otherwise it was working perfectly, too.

PS: I am obviously also using a custom DNS server. I'm a ControlD customer.

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Thanks, I needed a laugh.

La SNCF m'avait envoyé un e-mail pour se vanter de ça et c'est vrai que moi aussi, ça m'avait fait tiquer.

Surtout que depuis quoi, un an (?), ils ont rendu le système de contact avec le service client encore plus compliqué en forçant le passage par un chatbot à la con. C'est vraiment minable. Si ça ça peut obtenir le titre de "service client de l'année", je n'ose pas imaginer la qualité des autres entreprises françaises.

hands feel even

Strangely enough I know exactly what she meant by that. Over a decade ago I used to do this thing with words and sentences. Take the word "word", for example. W goes to the left. O goes to the right. R goes to the left and so D goes to the right. We ended on the right, so it's fine. But if we ended on the left, then I had to add another word and turn this little mental exercise into a decent sentence.

Sentences were kind of cheating, though, because even if I ended on the left then I just added a dot, which would fill a single "spot" and so make me "end on the right."

Yep. Convoluted, I know. It used to keep me up at night.

Half the time when I click an image link hosted on Discord, it turns out to be a dead link. I hope this new policy will help make them dead-er so people can finally stop using them. Discord isn't Imgur, Jesus.

Peertube needs to really federate if it wants a fighting chance. Having to rely on Sepia Search to find videos just won't cut it for most people.

Pornhub could start Videohub tomorrow and shake things up if they really wanted to.

Otherwise there's Odysee (bad name, linked to crypto but good interface) and Peertube (federated but searches aren't* so it will never catch on), but people aren't too fond of those.

* I know about Sepia Search. People shouldn't have to use yet another website to find the videos they want on Peertube. It's stupid.

This time I might pull the plug.

Coming 2024.

So 2025, huh?