And hope that someone stronger than you doesn’t want your rock. Or pay someone to guard your rock from stronger people.

Why would you want to shoot yourself? Don’t do x.

The P is silent

What? No. What problem will will this solve?

If you can sacrifice quality, you can encode the videos at a lower bitrate, but that is lossy compression, not lossless. Also, if your videos are in h.264 codec, then transcoding them to h.265 and preserving the quality may be a way to get the files smaller. You would use a tool meant for video, like Handbrake for this, and not winrar or other generic compression tool.

Basically, each of these sites used open standards and APIs as a way to grow their service. Eventually once they got to the user base they wanted and beat out the competition, they could tighten the screws, lock things down, since the users didn’t have any place to go, they were locked in.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enshittification

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguish

In terms of specifics, it’s unclear if they were ever profitable before locking things down, since the main goal at that phase wasn’t making money, it was growing active users and killing competitors. I would have to imagine that with the locked down APIs, they are more profitable, and they never really cared about the community and good will, only when it was beneficial to grow their user base.

Haven’t seen it but a Google search with this posts title shows it’s this episode:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2708122/

https://americandad.fandom.com/wiki/The_Full_Cognitive_Redaction_of_Avery_Bullock_by_the_Coward_Stan_Smith

Not sure if that’s true or not.

Generally browser fingerprinting is used to identify individual browser sessions across IP addresses. This mostly takes into account reported features and capabilities of the browser and OS to the website. Fingerprinting isn’t looking for specific info your browser reports, it’s taking it all and hashing it to get a unique id specific to the browser. Because it’s hashed, it can’t be reversed to identify the OS from the hash.

Sure a malicious website could Ignore the user agent and probe for some hardware capabilities that are specific to Linux, but that would be a lot of effort to probe various things which are set differently across all different browsers. I can’t speak for bad actors, but I wouldn’t spend the effort to check if the user agent is spoofed, if 95% of the time it’s accurate to get the OS type.

Found the post on the forums. The screenshot omits the comment from Craig who said “I ended up wiping windows and installing Ubuntu instead”.

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open the country. stop having it be closed.