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That will be believable if he doesn't win. The fact that it's cloee is absolutely nuts to an outsider.

Can we submit on a website? I can submit a million per day

I always lock my computer when I walk away from it so my dog can't start hacking the CIA.

It watched Terminator and now it's trying to DM Arnold Schwarzenegger on Instagram

This is about the web browser within Meta apps, uBlock on another browser won't help.

But it's not another website, it would be the web browser within the Facebook app, which could absolutely do that.

The big problem with Google is that they are in, or a part of, almost everything on the internet, and it all funnels users back to them one way or another.

Their search favors their own things, so if you search for anything, YouTube will come up most of the time. This by itself is enough to kill competition. Their search also recommends their browser heavily if you're not using it, which is how they became the most-used browser, which defaults to their search, which by default recommends YouTube in most searches.

Even if you don't use Chrome, don't worry because they will pay absolutely nuts money to be the default search on their competitors browsers, which is again more people to YouTube. And if that isn't enough, most browsers are built on Chromium, which Google maintains, meaning they can sway the course of their competitors browsers over the long term, which they are doing by selectively killing and bringing in certain technologies over years.

Android, which is also Google, I believe has YouTube installed by default, or at least all of my phones have had it. Trying to compete with defaults is almost unachievable. It's easy to think that people will change settings, but most people don't.

I agree that the technology and infrastructure needed to run YouTube is huge, and it's amazing, but that's only part of the story. Google has so much control of so many things that even if you could build the same thing, that's only the beginning.

But it's not only YouTube, it's the same for Gmail. Gmail has so much market share that they can kill competitors by making another email service seem unreliable. And all of their services point back to Gmail.

It's not just that they have a monopoly on video, they have a monopoly on the whole internet.

Sure, but Google has created a monopoly where no one else can even compete.

The chance I'll ever go to China is very small, but the chance I'll go to the US is pretty high. Surely the US spying on me is the only one to care about?

Some VPNs use ports 443 or 80 which won't be blocked. There's also some which disguise the traffic to appear as HTTPS. It's a cat and mouse game but I don't see the cat winning.

I always use the audio for Lemmy captcha because some of the letters are ambiguous

I looked on Amazon and you can get a set of 14 for £4. There's no need to act like this is unobtainably complex.