It watched Terminator and now it's trying to DM Arnold Schwarzenegger on Instagram

The big problem with Google is that they are in, or a part of, almost everything on the internet, and it all funnels users back to them one way or another.

Their search favors their own things, so if you search for anything, YouTube will come up most of the time. This by itself is enough to kill competition. Their search also recommends their browser heavily if you're not using it, which is how they became the most-used browser, which defaults to their search, which by default recommends YouTube in most searches.

Even if you don't use Chrome, don't worry because they will pay absolutely nuts money to be the default search on their competitors browsers, which is again more people to YouTube. And if that isn't enough, most browsers are built on Chromium, which Google maintains, meaning they can sway the course of their competitors browsers over the long term, which they are doing by selectively killing and bringing in certain technologies over years.

Android, which is also Google, I believe has YouTube installed by default, or at least all of my phones have had it. Trying to compete with defaults is almost unachievable. It's easy to think that people will change settings, but most people don't.

I agree that the technology and infrastructure needed to run YouTube is huge, and it's amazing, but that's only part of the story. Google has so much control of so many things that even if you could build the same thing, that's only the beginning.

But it's not only YouTube, it's the same for Gmail. Gmail has so much market share that they can kill competitors by making another email service seem unreliable. And all of their services point back to Gmail.

It's not just that they have a monopoly on video, they have a monopoly on the whole internet.

Some VPNs use ports 443 or 80 which won't be blocked. There's also some which disguise the traffic to appear as HTTPS. It's a cat and mouse game but I don't see the cat winning.

I always use the audio for Lemmy captcha because some of the letters are ambiguous

I looked on Amazon and you can get a set of 14 for £4. There's no need to act like this is unobtainably complex.

Get the chickens completely relaxed with smooth jazz, then steal their eggs.

There will be thousands of journalists watching it so they can report on how many other journalists watched the fight and how popular it was among journalists

Thanks for the fast updates.

One request I have is that for when opening web content, the title is just "Web". I think it would be better to show a URL, or "Web - [URL]", to double check that the loaded URL is the expected one. Maybe long press to copy the URL. Maybe a progress bar too.

Thanks again.

Yes because it makes them billions of dollars. It's disgusting.

I've been using the beta for a few days and can confirm it seems to work as expected now. There's been a few times where zooming while also moving to a corner too quickly may close an image, but that may be a gesture to close the image, and it's difficult to reproduce. Thanks for your help :)

Thanks for the fast response, I really appreciate it. I've joined the beta now, I will test it when I see .97 available, and I'll get back to you.

Also experiencing this, which is quite frustrating because I need to zoom in on most images due to bad eyes. Would love for it to be fixed.