They want to squeeze out that extra bit of profit and get the users that never subscribed on there so they can boast about improved numbers.

if your internet can handle the bandwith for cloud gaming app Luna can do wonders.

Why does Mozilla need ad dollars? Firefox is open source? If they don’t have a search engine what buisness do they feel thatvthey need this? Ads in Firefox potententially incoming??

If they would just stick with Firefox and nothing else they would be alright but they just keep doing things their userbase won’t like. They keep rissing their own expenses, for what? And wonder why no one uses Firefox. I wonder why.

The android app is about as clunky like Chrome even though it doesn’t need to be. Try other open source browsers like Lighting, which can view most modern sites and are just better made and don’t feel clunky and slugish.

The day they announced vpn services I dropped from Firefox. Because now its going to be more expensive for them. And they did more since then.

One thing I’ll give Facebook credit for in the case of content moderation is, Facebook is not decentralized like the Fediverse compared to on Lemmy, Misskey or Mastodon and etc.

Facebook has a whole centralized platform to moderate with all users. Compared to the Fediverse this moderation can be tough and very expensive. Facebook would have to pay a lot of moderators.

There are some problems known to occur however

There are some things that can slip through but with all this ai training more companies are moving towards ai moderation over human moderation that should reduce moderation costs and their profitability.

Some content Facebook doesn’t seem to tackle unless a government complains to them, particularly if they know its something they know generates them money.

Boooo Microsoft Windows

Since you asked, and I commented on Lemmy about this before.

Back in the Windows XP and even Windows 7 days Microsoft was trying to sell computers to people. It had to convince people why computers are worth their time.

Fast forward to Windows 10 and now it’s, “ok we now got an audience that’s addicted to our operating system, lets see what we can get away with. We might lose like 1% to Linux and like 5% to mac doing some of these while most of everyone won’t switch at all. and we increase our profits.”

Microsoft could care less about your PCs resources when you’re idk, playing some 4k or even 8k video games. What a joke, but for real, if any of you use WIndows at home and don’t want to jump straight to Linux. You can (temporally jump over to Chromebooks, which will mostly work out of the box, and has support for Linux apps.

Chromebook’s I would argue are perfect for getting users use to Linux apps without having to worry about losing any familiarity they might have with Something like WIndows or Mac.

Someone mentioned Libby, which I used before I didn’t realized they did magazine subscriptions, and that they are free and legal.

I’m trying out subscribing to some of these. including tech life news, and wired. Something like this where it’s updated weekly with new news stories, but you have to wait to a certain time point to access is particularly what I was looking for, this might work out without having to use the newspaper.

Good point with Libby, i’l have to check some of the library apps.

I use to care, but then I just use Peertube. Oh but there’s not as much content on Peertube. Put the type of content you like on Peertube make a channel it is free. Another tip is, look for specific types of content, and not specific content creators. and if you happened to find a creator you know or knew, follow them on Peertube!

I have plenty of tech Peertube channels that keep me up to date on Peertube, and it’s a type of platform that will never have ads or go a direction I don’'t want it to as a whole in terms of federation of servers and being an opensource video platform.

Server can surely make some unwelcomed decisions, and I can just change servers easily. Better then Youtube no ads, and your experience does not get throttled.

I would had concern over internet forums disappearing back in 2015-2012, but now a days, I don’t worry as much. if it wasn’t being replaced by the fediverse. Well maybe not replaced, but it is an alternative that has some good activity surprisingly and still growing, thanks to Mastodons marketing. It’s like an upgraded forums. And everyone can communicate no matter where they go on the Fediverse.

I didn’t know there *were government-run dating apps. Something I can research about. But this is coming from a u.s perspective. So in other countries, this might be common knowledge within their territory I understand that.

Look, if the posts are on Meta’s own platform, and if they say, in their terms of service they say they are aloud to reuse your content to deliver you services while still keeping you the rights. I don’t think they are really doing anything illegal necessarily in the u.s.

Other countries absolutely should challenge this in court and find out if this is illegal I do believe the eu found out real quick.

Linux has come along way, there was a time just getting Linux to run, and then to run apps on it was just unmanageable. I mean, you could do it but most people wouldn’t want to compile the kernel. Nor would they know where to start to do that, coming from Windows XP or even 7. They’d ask, what’s a kernel, and all you had was a terminal, and I assume the terminal wasn’t as user friendly as it is now back then but idk about that.

Windows use to just work out of the box, Microsoft used to care back then because in my opinion they were just trying to sell the idea of just using a computer to people. Now that they got people using computers, most with Windows on it then they go to the next phase, make money. The product is less of a concern, but they want to make money off their users.

You can expect Windows to be more modern and up to date on corporate trends, but not so what you want as a user. They aren’t trying to sell computers and operating systems any more, they already got people hooked to using their os, that’s what they probably cared about back then.

I know that more kids play video games daily then most adults that work and pay bills, which is besides the point. Most of the time it seems youngers use Discord to communicate then Twiter, when playing games, be regardless of what things might seem.

By removing Twitter from major gaming platforms would make Twitter less relevant to that market which is a lot, over time. It will almost look like Myspace in a sense. (not necessarily that Twitter would be closed down but just that they likely aren’t likely going to be using it even willingly, over something like Discord or Instagram.

I think that by having all major console makers abandoning Twitter, that it will keep Twitter / X away from the majority of the younger generations. (which I think would be a good things for those wanting to protect your kids from the content that’s allowed to free spread on there.)

The idea i’m proposing isn’t to give up on physical media, but to make better physical media with modern technology. Blue ray using disk technology requires a laser disk. But imagine if they made like SD cards, or USB drives that were read only with just the movie on it. (sd cards would be better.) that’s the type of changes i’m looking for, something more modern. More practical for a typical modern day.

They could essentially get rid of the media player to reduce the ewaste (by not needing an extra device just to physically watch a movie) as you mention and make the physical media accessible on devices that support the format like laptops, computers certian smartphones. (Which I didn’t want them to not have their own device as it gives more power to tech giants, but that would aim to address your ewaste concerns.)

Blueray and DVD players are both quite ewaste intensive and do less things for the user then say a PC or smartphone that would do better for the user.

If you think about it, blueray was made when playing ps3 or ps4 quality games on a portable device was a dream to many. It;s a very outdated physical technology. and very desperately needs a physical upgrade. Physical hardware could easily be better but it’s not in the industries interest to innovate in physical media because they all want to essentially be cable tv over again with streaming.

Yes.

While Blueray can do Hd, and maybe even 4k pretty well. Higher video qualities like 8k or 16k might require better hardware. also the fact that blueray still uses disc tech and their not using some kind of mini drive or sd card like drive for movies is also an issue. It shows they hadn’t innovated the formats since basically when blueray came out, (besides some adjustments to the technology as it went on. Also DVDs are slower at loading, why are we still using them instead of something more modern and more energy efficient for the environment?

Sure you do have streaming and cable, but when you think of the film industry, you typically think theatres, DVDs collections. blueray, and really just hasn’t been anything exciting different, or interesting from the industry. everythings just feels the same across the board. What happened to the film industry, and innovation?

Absolutely, VHS is a dead format for some pretty obvious reasons by this day and age.

However the bigger picture I was focusing on was that the industry makes similar actions together and not collectively. While the companies typically work independently, they copy and don’t create as much they don’t tend to do anything impressive like they did even just 8-10 years ago. Nothing is unique except what they happen to own as ip. And a lot of their content is rehash and not much is new from scratch.

Which is why I included the second example which is more modern. Talking about ai companies all chasing ai. But why is it that they all seem to be interested in it, and you have what seems that none of the well known media companies thinking, no we don’t feel we need this and not using it?