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Cake day: September 27th, 2023

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  • YouTube’s pricing is a mess. Here’s a quick breakdown of their offer here in France :

    • YouTube Premium (so video + music): 12€/m

    • YouTube Music Premium (music only, obviously): 10€/m

    One would assume based on this that Google values YouTube at only 2€/m per user. But anyway, let’s take a look at their family plans for a laugh:

    • YouTube Premium (6 users): 18€/m

    • YouTube Music Premium (6 users still): 15€/m

    Let’s put aside the price discrepancy. 18/6 = 3€/m per user. All signs point to Google being ok with making between 2 and 3€ per user per month, yet such an offer doesn’t exist. Hell, make it 4€, even. People would flock to it. But no, they’re just being greedy.










  • People suggesting DNS filtering are missing the point. Yes, people should do it, but for cosmetic stuff you need a browser extension.

    Anyway. I used to use Adguard. Like you, I noticed how slow it was making Safari. Worse, sometimes it simply wouldn’t work even though it was supposedly active.

    I gave Ghostery a try. It worked. No slowdowns or anything. Then I settled for Wipr. You can’t add custom lists to it, but at least it works as intended and doesn’t seem to slow down Safari.

    I only ditched Ghostery because I don’t exactly trust them. Otherwise it was working perfectly, too.

    PS: I am obviously also using a custom DNS server. I’m a ControlD customer.


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  • hands feel even

    Strangely enough I know exactly what she meant by that. Over a decade ago I used to do this thing with words and sentences. Take the word “word”, for example. W goes to the left. O goes to the right. R goes to the left and so D goes to the right. We ended on the right, so it’s fine. But if we ended on the left, then I had to add another word and turn this little mental exercise into a decent sentence.

    Sentences were kind of cheating, though, because even if I ended on the left then I just added a dot, which would fill a single “spot” and so make me “end on the right.”

    Yep. Convoluted, I know. It used to keep me up at night.