Thanks!

ah yep, thanks for the heads up, mine kept moving around seemingly randomly but yeah i can confirm holding and dragging works to move it out of the way

this is how it looks for me on desktop (Edge & Firefox) too

in some browsers u can right click > loop to automatically loop it how a gif is expected to work, but you still have to manually play it

I see what you mean, I don’t think I’ve ever seen the context of the question that prompted the statement, and yes when you put it like that I can see how the context can be important. So I did a bit of Googling to see what I could find after I read your reply, and here’s what I found:

From what I can tell this is the first article that broke the news, and it’s a conversation with Philippe Tremblay, the director of subscriptions at Ubisoft. Here’s a long excerpt of the relevant portion:

The question remains around the potential of the subscription model in games. Tremblay says that there is “tremendous opportunity for growth”, but what is it going to take for subscription to step up and become a more significant proportion of the industry?

“I don’t have a crystal ball, but when you look at the different subscription services that are out there, we’ve had a rapid expansion over the last couple of years, but it’s still relatively small compared to the other models,” he begins. "We’re seeing expansion on console as the likes of PlayStation and Xbox bring new people in. On PC, from a Ubisoft standpoint, it’s already been great, but we are looking to reach out more on PC, so we see opportunity there.

"One of the things we saw is that gamers are used to, a little bit like DVD, having and owning their games. That’s the consumer shift that needs to happen. They got comfortable not owning their CD collection or DVD collection. That’s a transformation that’s been a bit slower to happen [in games]. As gamers grow comfortable in that aspect… you don’t lose your progress. If you resume your game at another time, your progress file is still there. That’s not been deleted. You don’t lose what you’ve built in the game or your engagement with the game. So it’s about feeling comfortable with not owning your game.

"I still have two boxes of DVDs. I definitely understand the gamers perspective with that. But as people embrace that model, they will see that these games will exist, the service will continue, and you’ll be able to access them when you feel like. That’s reassuring.

“Streaming is also a thing that works really well with subscription. So you pay when you need it, as opposed to paying all the time.”

Streaming is a distribution method that appears to lend itself to the subscription model, although currently it remains a very niche corner of the business. Ubisoft CEO Yves Guillemot told GI in June that Ubisoft believes in streaming, but that it needs time. “It’s getting there,” he told us. “Just not as fast as we thought. When you are in a good city with good internet, it’s fantastic. But it’s not the case for everyone. The Nvidia experience, for example, is fantastic, but we thought it would go faster. We’ve learned a lot by working with these services, and we’re using that experience to enhance what we’re doing,”

So yeah it sounds to me like the journalist directly asked how subscription models could become more accepted and normal. It sounds like Philippe Tremblay wants, in particular, for Ubisoft to get in the streaming market, like if you don’t have a powerful enough computer to run a game, pay to stream it from a computer that is.

I’m on your side now I think, but I would maintain that Ubisoft would probably love a future where all games are subscription based, but that would just be speculation on my part only based on my bias against corporations ;3

So yeah I get you now, sorry for pressing you, thanks for bearing with me

if the statement does accurately represent the position of Ubisoft as a company, why is the context important? What is the context that would improve peoples’ perception of Ubisoft telling their customers that exchanging your money for their products doesn’t grant you ownership of the products?

Are you saying that Ubisoft doesn’t actually believe that people shouldn’t own their games and that this was a hypothetical discussion that was taken out of context? Because my impression was that this was sort of a response to people complaining about subscription-based games and DRM content that makes the concept of owning games blurry.

Because if this position doesn’t really represent Ubisoft, then what should have been said is whatever does represent Ubisoft. Ideally they should agree that people have the right own the games they purchase.

In my opinion someone should generally own what they buy. That’s why I like GOG, which distributes DRM free games, and part of why I often pirate games especially from large companies. In my opinion the take that people should only have a license representing permission to use a product that is actually owned by a company is delusional if not dystopian, and Ubisoft should be made fun of for having that position, and their games should be pirated.

Here’s an explanation/rant/opinion I more or less agree with by Louis Rossmann if you’re/anyone’s interested

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there’s peertube and odyssey but idk how viable either of them are long term. peertube at least is decentralized, not sure if odyssey is too or not

i know Louis Rossmann also posts on Odyssey

pockettube looks great, thanks for the recommendation!

i have it set to only like videos from channels im subscribed to, no issues so far personally. i manually liked most of the videos from channels im subscribed to before i discovered the extension, and i spend so much time on youtube that it became useful to me to automate the process. i wouldn’t be subscribed to them if i didnt like the content they make, so it’s usually fine for me to use youtube like this. i dont normally dislike videos, but when i do watch a video i dont like enough to go out of my way to dislike it, i can still manually dislike it. the extension does not lock the like button

positive interaction means the content creator will know people like the content and thus may be more motivated to make more of it, and for channels with much fewer subscribers (like in the hundreds or under 100) positive interaction can really mean a lot to them, especially for projects they spent a lot of time on and that they care a lot about

plus if the algorithm ever works right, liking more videos gives it more info to work with about my tastes and it should be able to recommend me videos more relevant to me and my tastes. if. if it ever works right lol, but i spend most of my time by far on youtube watching videos from channels I’m already subscribed to.

In addition to some of the ones listed in OP, I use

• YouTube Auto Like - automatically likes videos you open them (optionally only when you’re subscribed to the channel). If you’re on a Chromium browser, Google removed this extension from their web store so you can’t install it from there anymore. But you can install it manually if you want by downloading it from the Github repo here.
  
  I also use the following userscripts:

• Return Youtube Dislike - Does the same thing as the Return Youtube Dislike extension in the OP

• Youtube Shorts Redirect - redirects Youtube Shorts to a full watch page, so you can watch them like a regular video.

• Resize YT To Window Size - resizes the video player so that it fills in the entire dimensions of the browser window and moves video players to the top of the page so you can scroll down to see comments, recommend videos, etc.

• YouTube CPU Tamer by AnimationFrame - reduces Youtube’s CPU usage during video playback. I don’t really understand the technical aspects but it’s all explained in the description of the userscript. This script IS NOT compatible with SponsorBlock!
  
  Stuff I’m looking for (if anyone has any recommendations):

• Remove duplicate videos from a playlist

• display playlists in a grid layout instead of a list layout

• block youtube channels i don’t like

edit: fixed a formatting mistake

is it possible for multiple people to use one youtube premium subscription other than the family plan? we checked the family plan but there’s no way we can justify paying for it, far too expensive for us considering all our other expenses

edit: sorry replied to the wrong person

genuine question, how much does that really matter when it comes to performance? in my personal experience, on my system, edge does feel faster than chrome and most other browsers. but also, it’s not really a big enough difference for me for it to be a valid reason to use it over other browsers. like realistically i dont normally register these tiny fractions of seconds and milliseconds unless im deliberately payig attention for some reason. on the other hand, on my computer (and my bf’s computer (he runs Opera GX as his default browser)) at least, Opera GX is by far and extremely noticeably the best browser i have ever used in terms of performance, and it also uses the same engine as Edge and Chrome. i dont use Opera GX daily and i almost never recommend it to people but if i want to run some kind of browser based game or heavy interactive multimedia or website, or if i want to load something as quickly as possible, it’s basically the only realistic option on my system. before Opera GX, the closest thing that ever compared was Maxthon Nitro which was also based on Chromium. but Maxthon was maybe even less privacy friendly than Chrome lol. anyway, i can easily get 60+ fps in Opera GX in those situations where other browsers make me feel like im playing on the cheap Dells and eMachines i grew up with: lucky to get 10fps but still loafing pages in well under a second. i assumed this was because, although these browsers all run the same underlying open source technologies, each company has made their own proprietary changes to it in order to tweak certain things. in the case of Edge, better albeit forced integration with Windows, in the case of Opera, noticeably better performance. idk if Microsoft made changes that improved performance compared to Chrome on purpose, but that has still been my personal experience. on the other end of the spectrum, Vivaldi, even if i like it more than them, is often noticeably much slower than any of these browsers (often taking over a second to load big pages) and it’s also based on Chromium.

in terms of performance, on my computer, Firefox seems to be usually more or less identical to Chrome. not hating on it, i love firefox and it’s usually the first browser i recommend to ppl (when it’s not the first browser i recommend, that’s usually only because the person I’m talking to is looking for some kind of very specific or even niche feature that imo some other browser can do better than Firefox), but i dont notice a difference on my computer between it and chrome when it comes to performance. but im also not someone who cares that much about loading times, like i said these differences are often within milliseconds and i just don’t normally even notice unless im trying extra hard to pay attention, and im normally not. Opera GX and Vivaldi are outliers only because of how dramatic the differences are for me.

ya, im with you there. i had a twitter account but it was mostly to follow friends and internet celebrities. i created a mastodon account when elon did elon things but my friends didnt join mastodon and while many of the internet celebrities i follow did create mastodon accounts, i dont have much interest in social media broadly so i dont engage much there without friends. im mostly online for to find funny memes. i feel i dont have much of interest to post so it’s hard to find ways to engage outside of liking and voting stuff. i am much more interested in blogging tho, as at least sometimes ill want to talk at length about something but not have the room to do it on most existing platforms. i use tumblr currently to that end but id love if the fediverse had a blogging platform.

i did join the hajkey instance here though, mostly out of curiosity as i had wanted to check out calckey for a while and the blahaj instances seem like a good fit for me. but as you can see i have a tendency to ramble and im not sure even 3,000 characters is enough for me! lol

i did hear a while ago that tumblr was thinking of federating but im not sure if anything came of that

interesting, thanks for the info, i didnt know that.

also idk why but the url you linked to goes to an empty page for me, but i found what i assume is the same page here: https://joinfediverse.wiki/index.php?title=What_is_Calckey

not to ramble but it might be more appropriate to call Calckey and its siblings a blogging software then, ya? excepting where individual instance admins limit the character limit to smaller limits. altho idk if there’s any broadly accepted rule of thumb necessarily at what the cutoff between micro and full blogging is, but for me 3,000 characters sounds more like proper blogging so ill probably start calling it blogging instead of micro moving forward

edit: interestingly the link i pasted doesnt work for me when i click it either, idk what’s happening there lol

is a fork of Calckey which is a fork of Misskey iirc. it’s kinda a microblogging software not dissimilar from Mastodon but a subjectively prettier interface and most instances in my experience allow longer posts than most Mastodon instances in my experience

tbh, i’d be surprised if most people ever even bothered to even open the reddiquette or terms of service or anything else. i’m not trying to put anyone down or be condescending – i didn’t read any of this when signing up either! i only knew about it because i read discussions about how votes should be used on reddit lol

it’s true, most people are lazy and don’t read and intuitively assume the downvote button is a dislike button. it’s unfortunate, but i don’t know if anything can reasonably be done about stuff like that because i don’t think it’s going to change that people don’t read agreements or rules or guidelines before using a platform or program or service.