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TheTechnician27

@ TheTechnician27 @lemmy.world

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"Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had its effect: [...] like a physician, who hath found out an infallible medicine, after the patient is dead." —Jonathan Swift

  • YouTube Premium Is Not Ad-Free as Advertised, Class Action Lawsuit Claims

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  • Can a company market a submarine but then define a submarine as a lamp in their ToS and you'd just be out of luck?

    No, because a ToS can't cure an obviously false advertisement, but when looking at what a reasonable consumer would take away from the advertisement, you can see the ToS is clarifying what a reasonable person would already assume – namely that MrBeast, before sending 42 junior high students to fight to the death in a chocolate factory, spending 45 seconds raving about how much he loves to put Hello Kitty-branded capsaicin under his foreskin isn't something that YouTube Premium is going to get rid of.

  • YouTube Premium Is Not Ad-Free as Advertised, Class Action Lawsuit Claims

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  • Edit: Oh, I see, you meant in the ToS themselves. But it clearly links directly and unambiguously to the 'features' page right at the start of the section.

  • YouTube Premium Is Not Ad-Free as Advertised, Class Action Lawsuit Claims

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  • The lawsuit tries to claim that the terms of service reinforce this, when in reality, they directly contradict this already-bad-faith interpretation of what Google advertises. "Restrictions apply" is extremely normal for any advertisement and is effective in negating claims of false advertising provided they clarify what a reasonable person could plausibly already assume.

    and think you're off the hook

    Come back to me when Flemming et al. win this lawsuit. Even a token settlement, come back and rub it in my face. I encourage you, because I won't be wasting the time to keep up with this doomed nonsense.

  • YouTube Premium Is Not Ad-Free as Advertised, Class Action Lawsuit Claims

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  • Please see my two edits regarding this. YouTube very clearly spells out that these sponsored segments are fair game for YouTube Premium. This lawsuit is utterly frivolous, and I hope it burns for being such a joke that I could debunk it in five minutes.

  • YouTube Premium Is Not Ad-Free as Advertised, Class Action Lawsuit Claims

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  • given that advertisements and interruptions appear frequently during streamed content, including those inserted by the creator.

    Nah, this is dumb as fuck. No reasonable person reading the ToS would assume the creators themselves are restricted from inserting sponsored segments and that YouTube is somehow liable for removing them. Where would this even end? Would GamersNexus quickly advertising their t-shirts count?

    Seems likely to fail unless YouTube themselves are failing not to insert ads on Premium.

    —A religious SponsorBlock user

    Edit: So looking at the ToS, if we scroll down to section 7, we see the word "features" hyperlinked to. This page then reads:

    With YouTube Premium, you can watch millions of videos without interruptions by ads before and during a video. You will also not see third-party banner ads and search ads.

    You may still see branding or promotions embedded in the content by the creator, as well as promotional links, shelves and features in and around the content that are added or enabled by the creator. These links, shelves and features could be for their website, merchandise, membership to their channel, event tickets, or other related destinations that they are promoting. Ads or promotions may also appear on Primetime Channels, during live events streamed on YouTube, such as sporting events.

    So unless they just changed it in response to this lawsuit, it categorically addresses it even though a reasonable person would likely understand without this disclaimer.

    Edit 2: Just to make sure this wasn't changed in resoonse to the suit. Lawsuit was filed July 14, 2026. This was the ToS page on December 30, 2025, which still includes the link to "Features". Looking at an archive captured Christmas 2025, the features page still states:

    You may still see branding or promotions embedded in the content by the creator, as well as promotional links, shelves and features in and around the content that are added or enabled by the creator. These links, shelves and features could be for their website, merchandise, membership to their channel, event tickets, or other related destinations that they are promoting. Ads or promotions may also appear during live events streamed on YouTube, such as sporting events.

    Frivolous-ass, lying-ass lawsuit.

  • Tennessee Congressional Candidate Arrested for Shooting Flock Safety Cameras

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  • This is a terrible, myopic way to decide who becomes your representative, and I'm honestly sad Lemmy is even upvoting this.

    You need a points system, otherwise everyone's going to min–max on the low-hanging fruit. "The most" is too basic a metric, but of course as always, Lemmy doesn't understand the practical realities of politics.

  • Blow up fossil fuel infrastructure

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  • OP, your flight for Kyiv leaves in three hours. Godspeed.

  • "Public humiliation ritual": Trans troops are getting kicked out in secret, rigged trials - LGBTQ Nation

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  • “I have gone to pretrial confinement hearings where somebody is so addicted to meth that they are throwing up on my shoes,” Rashid told the Times. Unlike Davis, she said, “They were allowed into their own hearing.”

    Jesus christ.

  • Incredible amount of derpiness

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  • body shame a cat

    I know you're saying this in bad faith as a thought-terminating cliché, but for those in the audience: no, that's not what body-shaming is. Nobody is deriding or judging the cat because of his body; they're deriding the actions of the cat's caretaker(s) responsible for keeping the cat healthy and not neglecting him.

    The fuck is wrong with people?

    Yeah, how dare people want to see pets not being abused. Quit body-shaming my dog just because he's skin-and-bones and it hurts him when he walks. I don't feed him, and you can't criticize that apparently, because really that's shaming him somehow. What do you mean, "I'm maliciously co-opting progressive talking points to justify animal abuse"?

  • Incredible amount of derpiness

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  • "My joints hurt."

  • Cavatelli and pork

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  • How's cavatelli compared to gnocchi, OP?

  • Linux's market share in North America has breached 10% for the first time, says StatCounter

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  • For NA desktop usage, StatCounter lists Linux as:

    • 3.56% in May
    • 6.14% in June
    • 10.61% in July

    Lemmy: "Sure, why not."

  • Where it all began

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  • Perceptron: Seer of Light

    [ ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ 400/400 ▓▓▓▓▓▓▓▓ ]

  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - EV

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  • I understand the justification but just don't think it holds in 2026 unless you're in a worse position than even paycheck-to-paycheck. 50% is solid odds for that reward, there's a difference of two orders of magnitude, those two orders of magnitude are actually meaningful, and $50,000 in 2026 money is "tread water a little more comfortably for a while" money while $10 million – 200x more – is still "invest and go do whatever you want" money.

  • Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - EV

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  • Wait, what? That seems so trivial. As a sanity check (and assuming I'm reading this right): unless you're utterly destitute or you're ground floor on some insane, foolproof investment opportunity but have no spare capital, you literally always go for the expected $5 million, right?

  • BMW Is Showing Full-Screen Ads on Its Cars' Main Dashboard Control Display

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  • That's Bayerische Motoren Wankers AG to you.

  • Wisconsin brewery stripped of alcohol permit after promising free beer when Trump dies

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  • "Worry not, owner class, for I will defend you from these mafioso slanderers who think it's possible for entrepreneurs to violate tax (and various other) laws. I am very progressive btw."

  • Wisconsin brewery stripped of alcohol permit after promising free beer when Trump dies

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  • Sorry, I could've stood to include the prior paragraph:

    "I was hired as a manager to basically take care of the bar, take care of his tap room in Madison," said [the same] former employee who requested anonymity. "At first, I was paid by a regular direct deposit, and then he said he's going to pay me from the Super PAC and from the business. And I started to do some research. I spoke with a couple attorneys and an accountant, and they said, that's kind of shady, not a good idea."

  • Wisconsin brewery stripped of alcohol permit after promising free beer when Trump dies

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  • Did you read this article or any other article?

    He was shut down by the Wisconsin Department of Revenue for tax violations.

    Bangstad provided a chart explaining what violations were allegedly in the document from the DOR. Those include unauthorized running of a retail outlet, violation of shipping laws and untaxed beer possession in an unpermitted warehouse.

    And he admits to owing taxes. This is an entitled small business owner(TM) trying to claim political persecution as a scapegoat because he's appalled small businesses like his aren't above the law.

    He's also been accused of fraud by former employees in relation to the expenditures of his super PAC, e.g. writing checks for "organizing" that never happened.

    The former employee provided documentation showing he received checks from the Minocqua Brewing Super PAC with "organizing" written in the memo line, despite saying he never performed organizing work or any duties for the Super PAC. Two other former employees confirmed the employee's account.

  • SHOCK HORROR

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  • I was trying to call back to Aristotle's discussion of how this system supposedly worked.