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Remember all those time they told you something and you said "Oh that will never happen"? Well remember this (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 5 points 6 months ago* (2 children)

It's like youtube. If you wanna watch a video of something, it is most likely on there. Same as discord, if you wanna chat with your mates in a game or join any kind of geek topic centric community they are very likely to have a only a discord for that.

Granted there are options to fight the power such as freetube or vesktop on linux that allow you to use the services while exposing as little as possible of yourself, but you still have to in order to participate in most places.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I haven’t watched a YouTube ad in years. Ublock origin is the way.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    Me neither, i go to almost any length to avoid ads in general. The point was that i still have to use youtube and jump through all those hoops to do it in an acceptable way, because that's where the content is.

    Same as discord, they are less obnoxious with ads than youtube but they are data thirsty mfers. Using a plugin supporting client allows to disable some of that and otherwise obfuscate yourself/getting at premium features, but again i would rather not use it except i have to because everyone is on there.

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