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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • Now, I am on the can we ban Threads train, I wasn’t at first because they hadn’t gotten involved in actually joining the rest of us, now they are and they’ve admitted they want all our information too, I just don’t want any part of that.

    Things collected from fediverse participants that interact with Meta users…

    - Username
    - Profile Picture
    - IP Address
    - Name of Third Party Service
    - Posts from profile
    - Post interactions (Follow, Like, Reshare, Mentions)
    
    

    They’ve never met a piece of data they didn’t want to mine, have they?


  • I followed this from Ublock’s Reddit page, it’s working for now.

    Current anti-adblock status: Latest fixed (ID: 462a8d5d)*

    Please, remember these 3 steps:

    Force update all your filter lists (click uBO icon > ⚙ Dashboard button > Filter lists pane > 🕘 Purge all caches > 🔃 Update now)
    Turn off all other extensions AND browser’s built-in blockers
    Remove all your current custom filters AND custom filter lists that you have enabled / added manually (Adguard lists…)
    It might be quicker to make a backup of your config and restore to defaults before proceeding to step 1.

    Fixing anti-adblock can cause ads slipped. If you see any ads slipped, please report back the EXACT URL and your country when accessing the URL so volunteers are able to investigate.

    The filter lists can be updated multiple times a day, so please always do step 1 before reporting.

    • About the ID above, it’s the ID of YouTube’s script that’s used for anti-adblock, you can monitor it via this link: https://pastefy.app/G1Txv5su/raw (top to bottom is oldest to latest). It means that the current fix is matched with the script with corresponding ID.

    If the latest ID (the last line) does not match the current one written above, it means YT has updated the new one and it might cause anti-adblock again. If it matches and you still get anti-adblock, kindly check the 3 steps above. Thank you.














  • What is the bottom line here? Is Youtube big enough to be allowed to publish full albums of Pink Floyd? Or does Youtube pay a dime to Universal so they are allowed to publish the audio content?

    The short answer to both is likely, yes.

    Google has a lot of money and can prolong court cases, you’ll notice most copyright bullies tend to go after the small fish so they can get a precedent before using it against the bigger fish. What protects them the most is that they have installed their copyright system, Content ID, which allows Universal to upload hashes for their content and it will then hunt for any video with that in it, at which point the automated system is designed to block the content or leave it up if that’s the publishers wants or monetize the content and send the money to the publisher.

    My question is: If Youtube can go away Scot’s free with this, why can’t the fediverse? If we start to host massive video/audio content, what will happen to the fediverse?

    The owner of those instances will likely be sued, if their server host doesn’t kick them to the curb first, probably both.