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yes, why wouldn’t it be crap? putting effort into the input to feed a probabilistic machine doesn’t suddenly make the output appealing somehow. there is a difference of skill and resulting quality between an artist using a brush and a person using a slop generator. the notion that your slop generator is generating slop because you’re simply prompting it wrong is nonsense.

and quite frankly, whoever thinks that an image generator built on mass scraping others’ creative works pushed forward by the worst of big tech and a paintbrush are equivalent in ethics and quality because they say they’re both “tools” might just be a tool as well.

honestly i think it’d be nice to have a full p2p video directory instead. something like peertube but without instances, resembling a torrent tracker like nyaa, aimed generally for educational stuff, entertainment, music, etc. basically youtube but as a torrent tracker, to reduce the storage requirement. you’d be able to seed your favorite media and the fact that people would not want to waste their storage on seeding worthless stuff and the technical hurdle of p2p would keep the mindless slop out.

i mean… blocking lists are universal, but the other features ublock offers are not - i’m making heavy use of ublock’s dynamic filtering panel and per-site switches. one important thing i use ublock for is to whitelist which sites get javascript permissions and to get rid of remote fonts to make pages more readable. those features need manifest v2.

if firefox drops manifest v2 and you’re relying purely on those inbuilt blocking lists then you might as well use the manifest v3 version of ublock without seeing a difference, right?

the standard price expectation is how it tricks the customer, if you open a webpage and go pay for something then you expect that the price you’re paying from the same vendor is set the same for everyone (or at least constant for your geographic location to accomodate for purchasing power). pretty much no customer would expect opening the page in another session to offer a better price, which is why they did it this way.

if people knew there’s a better price available, they’d not take the worse deal. and people in general don’t like having tricks pulled on them, especially if they’re meant to gauge how much they can get away with charging you.

or… people could at least try to be accomodating? if there was a horny community, people who are interested would join it and people who aren’t could block it. since we’re apparently not having that, then they should at least use nsfw tags in existing communities. or not evade blocks. what the original commenter proposed is just one solution that makes it easy.

if you block a whole community because of a few bad apples, you’ll also cut yourself off from the majority of posters who post interesting stuff.

this has nothing to do with an office or being opposed to nsfw because i’m opening lemmy in public. some of us just don’t want to be involved with sexual stuff even if no one else is viewing my screen.

i replied to your comment because i don’t agree with your expressed stance that we should let nsfw go unchecked and push away people who don’t like that because they’re apparently prudes. why should the onus be on people like that and not on people who don’t use nsfw tags and evade blocks?

the original commenter’s suggestion up top would mostly solve the issue. you disagreed with it, so i commented to disagree with your comment, and noted that i see this as a consent issue.

also i imagine moving to a sfw-only instance does nothing if the posts aren’t tagged as not sfw. it’s also not my goal. i don’t mind having an option to unblur a nsfw post. but i find it problematic when it’s effectively forced onto the timeline.

isn’t posting untagged nsfw into general/meme communities against respecting consent? some people don’t want sexual stuff on the timeline, yet your solution is that those people are pruders and should leave instead of encouraging nsfw posters to categorize their nsfw media properly.

if the rest of the fediverse can do it then i don’t see why lemmy shouldn’t.

does me sorting by all somehow mean that i need to see untagged nsfw by default? as opposed to nsfw posters learning to tag their posts properly and not evading blocks?

last time i saw that user’s profile, all of the posts were sexual. many of them not even really memes. posts about having intercourse with old men, wearing revealing clothes in the club and so on. i don’t think any of them were tagged, so the user themselves doesn’t care and apparently neither do the mods of the communities wherever it was posted to.

no one’s pushing the nsfw users out, just wanting a mechanism for users who don’t want that stuff in the timeline to filter it out. why should people play whack-a-mole with people who don’t tag their horny posts properly and people who keep remaking accounts every other month?

i find it dissapointing how the nsfw community preaches that consent is key, but at the same time when someone doesn’t consent to being exposed to porn by default then they’re a prude and should make new communities on their own.

the least they could do is tag their nsfw posts as nsfw, which they consistently don’t do.

because sadly, manipulation works. these companies spend millions on research on how to most effectively force this brain poison onto as many people as possible, they’d not be doing this if they didn’t see returns.

the bots won looooooong ago, they’ve been faster and more accurate at the captchas for quite a while. there’s even browser plugins that automatically solve the audio captcha.

this is just biometric data collection, because they know that many people will use it if it’s presented to them, especially if it’s less tedious that clicking 15 slowly disappearing traffic lights. the average joe isn’t doing a bypass with a virtual camera.

some investors think it sounds cool so you get a short-term profit before the whole idea falls apart. or something like that.

iOS has their own attestation/anti-tamper api similar to google’s integrity api so that’s going to be used instead. the only difference is that on iOS you’ll need to download extra software specifically for this.

graphene devs said you can do it with their sandboxed version of gms but as far as i know that still involves having an account and handing over all your personal info to google.

my entire /usr directory is just a bit above 4 gigabytes. you can put a fully featured modern operating system into that size, or you can have google’s slop machine that no one asked for

ublock origin lite sadly does only a fraction of what the normal ublock origin does. no javascript blocking, no remote fonts blocking, no large media element blocking, no granular dynamic filtering in that popup panel. i guess it’s still decent to block ads though, but so very crippled compared to the real deal