repairs are not a matter of subsidies. Only new infrastructure is supported.
That’s a big problem. If you incentivize a company to not maintain the infrastructure because you will pay for it once it’s completely broken it will be completely broken.
repairs are not a matter of subsidies. Only new infrastructure is supported.
That’s a big problem. If you incentivize a company to not maintain the infrastructure because you will pay for it once it’s completely broken it will be completely broken.
Someone who is sponsored by an account seller, i.o.w. who doesn’t mind breaking ToS but then seems to complain about others scripting, i.e. breaking ToS might not be the most unbiased and reliable source.
Considering the trust they’ve lost I don’t think they’ve planned to do it this way. And if they didn’t plan it, they assumed that their original plan wasn’t going to result in much opposition, so that was the plan they wanted to go with.
If no person does anything nothing changes.
Of course your own choices in isolation don’t change much. But that’s like saying voting doesn’t do anything because a single vote doesn’t matter. We all can make choices that add up through all of society.
If musicbrainz has an acoustic fingerprint for the songs it doesn’t need metadata. Picard is more or less the GUI version of beets.
It was time to switch to Invidious anyway.
Which will stop working once this is implemented, since it doesn’t use a trusted browser to access YT. As will any kind of automated access. Search engine bots, archive crawlers, third party apps… anything websites don’t like or know won’t be able to access them anymore.
Let’s hope there’s already a law that the EU can find to apply (since they already don’t like the non-EU dominance of big tech), or that they make one in time.
But if you implement something in your browser that allows websites to block anything that isn’t an accepted browser (and websites use it because they don’t want their precious data to feed random AIs) you effectively prevent any potential competition from crawling websites to build a search index that might threaten your position.