This community usually discusses consumer rights, but nobody is discussing this initiative. Is it maybe cuz Lemmy’s majority ain’t American?
Those businesses give no flying fucks about signals you’re angry; they only care about money. So unless you use the Clippy avatars to mobilise people and to hurt those businesses’ revenues, it’ll do nothing.
(For YouTube, this means to stop or at least reduce platform usage. After all its revenue comes from ads.)
Where’s that mobilisation? *cricket noises*
I would but I don’t have a youtube account
hhh chad
looks like shit no thanks
wait hold on, i know those eyes. was this made by the surreal unix guy?
niiice, i fucking love this guy’s artstyle
Yeah, from this post a week ago.
oh shit
So going on an ads platform to put the icon of a corporation to claim that this is helping? I’m really having hard times to understand the logic.
Clippy already was a big step in the wrong direction from Microsoft, i’m not gonna celebrate mistakes of the past because they seem benign in comparison to todays mistakes.
I’m from the USA and I have no idea what you’re talking about. What’s the context here, what is adopting a corporate marketing image as my profile picture supposed to accomplish?
well, you gotta watch his video in the image if you’re interested.
I’m not into slacktivism
Or you could just answer the question.
It would require writing a wall of text, trying to convey the content of his +16min video series using my weak English. Doesn’t seem the best approach imo. Also since I’ve pointed the source of the trend you can use a search engine to find an article or something.
No
It is very silly.
The video is monetized, and by having some ppl change their pfp to clippy and then linking to his video - I mean congrats to Mr. Rossmann for the big $$$
I really don’t like him
Crazy thing is he also uploads to Odysee and paid to develop grayjay, I’m not even subscribed to his youtube channel and thanks to him I’m moving as many subs off the platform as possible. Quite a few creators upload all their shit to other platforms.
also if you’re watching someone who advocates for adblockers without using one yourself that’s on you.
He barely makes money off of these videos (negligible) and encourages all his users to use adblockers.
Given his target audience I’m sure he’s at the lower end of the money paid per view. Also he could’ve taken a sponsorship on anyone of his hundreds of videos but he has not so far, so not really big $$$
This screams, “SHOOT THE MESSENGER!” If you wait around looking for a perfect, pristine leader of a movement, you’ll get less done than a petition.
youtube pfp to clippy ?
That would require having a YouTube/Google account, so no
Maybe just delete your youtube account? I’ve never even had a youtube account at all and I’m a heavy youtube consumer…
hmm, I’m only starting a discussion to enjoy and farm karma tbh, but you surprised me. In my experience, only normie stuff, political propaganda (chad Trump, Putin or my country’s governor) or women in little to no clothing constitute the whole of your recommendation if you don’t use an account. Even on new phone, new sim card data.
Sure, I don’t use the youtube algorithm. You could just use any alternative fronted like grayjay (unfortunately made by this guy above) or newpipe. Then you don’t fall prey to the algorithm but rather have a feed based on your own subscriptions.
Je suis charlie
We don’t discuss companies screwing us here but us screwing companies.
I think the clippy movement is cute so yes I’m wearing the mask, just let me know when we’re blowing up parliament.
What’s that clippy stuff about? I asked elsewhere and someone posted a youtube clip. Not gonna waste 15 minutes of my life watching this shit.
No, simply because I’ve never commented on youtube, so it’d be pretty useless, if not counterproductive. Giving even more information about my political/tech ethics to Alphabet doesn’t seem smart nor useful in my position. Also, I don’t even watch youtube videos on their website now. I usually use invidious instances or newpipe.
But I’m not against people doing it, especially if the ultimate goal is spreading awareness and building a community of people with privacy oriented ideas.
I’m on the same boat, except for the part about not using Youtube. Unfortunately I’m caught in that spiral where I watch every clickbait_y video about new programming language, new tech stack …ect. Are you able to watch every video normally with invidious and newpipe on Desktop (Linux/Windows) ? My experience wasn’t going that well, also Youtube is so good because of the bandwidth and you easily switch quality.
Are you able to watch every video normally with invidious and newpipe on Desktop (Linux/Windows) ?
In my experience, yes. For desktop usage you can use invidious from browser and freetube [https://freetubeapp.io/] as external client/software (but I’ve never used Freetube so I can’t comment on that). Newpipe is android only and I HIGHLY recommend it if you have Android.
The problem with invidious instances is that sometimes they get pretty laggy because of server overloads (I guess? honestly idk). You also don’t have your account tailored recommendation, but in my experience you can jump around a lot, especially if your main interest are programming videos.
Another method I use is downloading the videos I’m interested into using JDownloader 2, but that’s pretty extreme and I relied on this to combat my “algorithm addiction”. Got fed up by it months ago, so I put my favourite channels on a RSS feeds and downloaded only the videos I was truly interested into. Usually downloading videos require way less bandwidth than streaming.
(edited for spelling errors, eh)
I remember using Newpipe before my Android device got stolen, but back then I got recommended so much normie stuff, and comment were flooded with nsfw accounts (weird profile pictures)
If I remember correctly you can use ReVanced to login into your Youtube account and have an experience similar to Newpipe. You’d probably have better recommendations (the bot comments depends on the channel though). I’ve never looked into it, but it seems a popular choice.
