• Nougat@kbin.social
    1·
    2 years ago

    People who choose not to watch ads are far more likely to not spend money based on ads. I know that when I see the same crappy ads over and over, yeah, I remember the name of the product, and I remind myself every time never to buy it. I’m more likely to buy from that seller if I don’t see their ads.

  • archomrade [he/him]@midwest.socialEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    YouTube has also started showing me a blank “home” screen since I turned off my watch and search activity history on privacy settings.

    Joke’s on them, all I want is to see my subscriptions anyway

  • wheeldawg@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0·
    2 years ago

    I don’t think I’ve ever seen the word “allowlisted”. Did someone forget “whitelisted” is a thing, or is that term finally cancelled?

    • towerful@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      It’s not been cancelled.
      I’m sure someone raised concerns over racist origins, or that they were uncomfortable with the terms. Or perhaps programmers did it themselves as a part of introspection that came around with GitHub changing from “master branch” to “main branch”.

      Which likely lead people to realise that blacklist and whitelist aren’t really descriptive.
      Blacklist came from the 1600s, regarding regicide. And the opposite of that is obviously whitelist.
      But it doesn’t actually describe what it’s doing, and ultimately it is an idiom.
      Removing idioms in coding is generally good practice.
      And you can have other things like “FilterList” or “AdminList” or whatever.

  • Ab_intra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    01·
    2 years ago

    Haha. This is something that they have been testing for some time now. I ended up changing to YouTube premium a few years ago from Spotify and I think it’s pretty good!