If that’s the US… keep in mind that the distance between the US and Russia is… 53 miles. Excluding Alaska, the distance between Chukotka and Washington, is under 1100 miles.

I’m still using RSS. YouTube lives off ads/subscriptions, they don’t care how you find the videos.

(the bell) and it doesn’t even fucking work 100% of the time. I subscribe to and have notifications enabled for about 13 channels that upload every single day; I only get notified like once a month

Do you have it set to “All”, or to “Personalized”?

I don’t really care about most notifications, so I leave them on “Personalized”, which lets the algorithm decide when to send one. The few channels I’ve set to “All”, seem to notify me every time.

YouTube prefers you use the home feed

I’m not all that sure; don’t they get the same amount of money from ads no matter how you find them? And they get a hefty chunk on “Join” and “Thanks” payments (a 30% cut, IIRC), which people are less likely to spend on non-subscribed channels.

These shenanigans are likely illegal in the EU:

• All products have to offer a minimum of 2 years of warranty, including access to online services on the same terms as sold. If they can’t afford 2 years of servers, then they shouldn’t’ve made the basic service free from the beginning.
• Collecting excessive personal data (not personally identifiable, just personal) without prior approval by the user, like data about whether a user would pay or not, is a GDPR violation.

If people got serious, they’d be looking at some lawsuits and fines.

Wikipedia and Archive.org need international mirrors. Just saying.

calls for “remigration” or mass deportations of foreigners and citizens deemed to be unassimilated, are now commonplace among AfD supporters and leaders

They make assimilation sound so important… meanwhile, people with jobs and families, who lose them for some reason or other, turn to extreme religious excuses to attack people, like this one last week:

Suspected Munich attacker named locally as counter-terrorism police take over investigation

It’s almost like the real cause was neither immigration, nor assimilation, nor religion… and more of an attempt at “suicide by cop” caused by insufficient resources for mental health.

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