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  • Yeah I’m not paying for something and it still be illegal. I’d rather stick to piracy. I get your point and if it works for you that’s cool. But it’s not for me.

    A good usenet setup with the Arr stack can automatically download basically anything you want and costs tens of dollars per year to run with very little, if any risk. (have there been any prosecutions for people downloading from usenet?)

    With a little bit of work and an old computer for a server you can basically run your own automated piracy streaming service.






  • Someone go make Steam for videos and I’ll pay for media again. My stipulations are:

    • Once I buy it, it’s mine forever (otherwise piracy is better)
    • The file is high quality, DRM free, and in a selection of standard formats (otherwise piracy is better)
    • I can redownload it from the service at any time (otherwise piracy is better)
    • I can get everything I want to watch (otherwise piracy is better)


  • Guaranteed they’d find a way to double dip. Price gouging, restricting content behind further paywalls, adding ads anyway… absolutely they’ve investigated all those and undoubtedly more.

    Switch to Firefox, Chrome is their biggest lever to force this kind of stuff onto people. While Firefox exists and it remains uncool for them to block it they’ll have to compete against piracy and adblockers which will limit their ability to aggressively monetise.

    Switch to firefox!






  • It’s pretty common for corporate stuff (legal or otherwise) to start with no payment changing hands, just a contract. Then an invoice lands either monthly or on completion afterwards.

    That makes it easier for the work to actually start (otherwise you need to engage the finance dept up front and they’re often slow), and once the contract is signed and the work started that’s the sales process complete.



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    1 year ago

    On mobile: multiple top and bottom tool/nav bars that automatically show/hide themselves when you scroll. They’re invariably more irritating than if they were just pinned at the top of the page (or perhaps viewport, but ideally page - I can scroll to the top of I want it back)

    On desktop: animations tied to scrolling.

    Anywhere: any kind of popup, modal, etc that I didn’t click on something to get. Please fuck alllllllll the way off.


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    1 year ago

    The browser implements the text selection behaviour, but how infuriating it is depends on how convoluted your page construction is.

    On a simple page with no floats, overlaid elements, negative margins, absolute positioning, hidden stuff, and other css layout tomfoolery, it’s perfectly predictable. It’s only when designers do designer things does it start to break down.