I’m surprised they think this is useful… if I’ve paused a video it’s because I’m answering the phone or front door, making a coffee, going for a shit etc… I’m almost never going to see these ads 🤷🏻♂️
SBM is run by Dr Stephen Novella aka Skeptics Guide to the Universe, these guys are some of the most vocal (and knowledgeable) pro-science anti-quack science communicators around… if there’s BS antivacc nonsense floating around, they’ll call it out and rip it apart.
Can highly recommend their podcast (the aforementioned Skeptics Guide to the Universe) as well!
Thing is how do you differentiate between a bunch of people who genuinely like a product and are happy to say so because it’s solved a problem for them that they see other people having, and “subtle spam”?
For instance, I’m a Kagi subscriber and have been for some months now as it’s doing a good job for me, and I’ve had the odd person leap down my throat accusing me of being a corporate shill etc, and I am absolutely not (but that’s what a shill would say!!!)
How does anyone get a product recommendation from a product that’s genuinely growing in popularity so people are recommending it? I get there needs to be a healthy dose of cynicism but where does the line get drawn to the point where that cynicism is no longer “healthy” and simply means everyone distrusts everything that’s made by a company if somebody on the internet says it’s good?
Where’s the equal cynicism when somebody says something is shit and it could be a corporate shill from a competitor?
Should have waited until after the election later on in the year as, all being well, we’ll have a new government. This shower of shit we have in right now won’t do f’all for the average person that’s against business interests.
Prime Video subs will soon see ads for Amazon products when they hit pause (arstechnica.com)
As if the Prime Video app couldn’t get any worse.
I'll never understand this kind of mindset. (lemmy.ml)
Antivax quacks are continuing to make up fantastical biological mechanisms for COVID-19 vaccine “shedding” (sciencebasedmedicine.org)
Sony backs down on demand that Helldivers 2 players log into a PSN account (www.pcgamer.com)
Kagi silently removed all references to Google's index from their website
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Discord wants to void your right to sue them in court — but you can opt out of the practice (www.polygon.com)
It's finally up! Please sign it if you're in the UK :) Petition: Require videogame publishers to keep games they have sold in a working state. (petition.parliament.uk)
Has anybody played music on their disc-based systems? (lemmus.org)