Touch screens are shit tor buttons. They can be hacked. They can be unresponsive.

There’s a load of other reasons, but either or both are enough to realise that a physical button is much safer. Perfect example of safety being lost in technology. Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/technology/dutch-school-privacy-google-microsoft-zoom.html

If anything, the Dutch will enforce more laws on them

Is duckduckgo chromium based?

I don’t use it, just curious.

If they get this, I’m gonna make s fortune ripping the copyright protection off stuff so that I can sell products as my own.

I didn’t know there was a name for it, I don’t have anymore info on it, but I can show examples of it happening.

It definitely is in practice 100%

I don’t have any more info on it, but I can prove it

They’re also blocking posts by users who aren’t banned or even got a warning. It appears to the user as though it’s been posted, but it hasn’t.

I’m surprised anyone uses Google services considering how they infiltrate your privacy.

A Google VPN is as private to me as giving a six year old a cardboard box and asking them but to look inside.

Definitely not blocking here… but… I have to ask. Which takes precedence, YouTube’s T&C’s or EU law?

Whatever happened to zeronet? Wasn’t that supposed to do that with many services as well as the whole thing in general?

I’m guessing it just never got enough users.

Edit - link https://zeronet.io

What’s realistically the closest to YouTube today? Like Lemmy, small acorns need bigger communities 😁 Slow, but it’ll happen. It’s also not a bad thing to have people used to switching platforms every x amount of years. That aside, does a VPN work, or Newpipe?

I’m in EU, not getting any ads yet on Firefox or Newpipe.

I’m not doubting that the shield TV would be a superior box. But just that I wouldn’t buy a used one, and for the money the Nokia box is a great box, well built until OP can decide to buy a new shield or at least wait until new shield is mentioned or released.

This can only be a bad thing.

They will win and like live nation, will merge with more well placed companies until they are printing their own money.

Have a look at the Nokia TV Box. Great bit of kit. Sturdy and well built remote. I wouldn’t buy a used shield for sure. And the old Nvidia shield is pretty much the same spec as the latest one IIRC. There’s not much between them. The shield often drops in price on Amazon too (Europe).

I haven’t heard of anything newer coming out soon from Nvidia and for the price difference I would definitely go for the Nokia, allowing you to also save your cash if Nvidia do bring out a new version.