Frankly, that’s how I feel when trying to be a decent human in this world run by an overwhelmingly large number of incredibly shitty people. Maybe he wasn’t the crazy one. Or maybe I am… *sigh*

I’m hoping it’s a deliberate ruse to keep people talking about the files when the media has all but stopped. If so, I hope whoever came up with it can withstand the shitstorm that may come back at them because it’s brilliant!

Especially those of us who prefer to read over watching videos.

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On second thought, you just go ahead telling yourself that if it makes you feel better. It’s pointless to argue with self-rghteousness because it doesn’t know how to be honest with itself - let alone anybody else.

I think maybe you’re… ahem …selling yourself short. It might be more difficult in the current economic environment, but I suspect there are enough people who’d be willing to pay for high-quality acting even when the plain text version is free. It’s the immersion in the fantasy that makes it worth it to them. How do you think OF does so well when there’s so much readily accessible free porn out there? Do it right, market it properly (and cost-effectively), and even in this economy (or maybe even because of it) people will still pay to experience their fantasies (or at least escape reality). You just need to commit to doing it well to make it worth them paying for.

ETA: you could also encourage the purchasing of your recordings by including extra content, and/or publishing new stories as an “intro chapter” to get them hooked, and then continuing the adventures in the recordings. The conversion rate would be pretty low, but you’d probably still make more than with your advertising path - which you could still go to by releasing the extra material after some semi-lengthy “exclusivity period.”

…I’m very religious but not at all superstitious…

Cognitive dissonance on full display.

What happens when it’s no longer profitable enough to make manufacturing film worthwhile? In recent years LOTS of companies have been moving towards focusing strictly on their most profitable items only - dropping things that were still profitable, but not enough to please their major shareholders who only care about profits being as high as they possibly can be.

You have control over it so it’ll soon be just like all the other pre-installed crap that you never use, but still eats up limited storage space.

With the addition, Google isn’t only thinking of users’ well-being, of course.

It’s reacting to increasing regulatory pressure around social media harms and algorithmic dangers. Today, many countries and U.S. states have created laws to restrict or ban minors from using social media, as the impacts of these apps on young people’s mental well-being have become better understood.

Google can now point to a feature like Pause Point to claim it’s part of the solution, not the problem.

Ahhh - there it is.

The thing that is much more concerning to me, tho: if this is pre-installed as a standard part of Android, then it could potentially be abused by work, carriers, governments, malware, etc. to control what you can and can’t easily do.

Same. So I guess that means we’re done here. See ya around. 😁

Great if you’re in Europe (which I think I’d rather be, but can’t afford to do).

I use a Chromium-based browser (that allows extensions) in desktop mode to access my bank because they deliberately give a crappy experience to mobile users. How do I know this? Because their site used to work just fine in standard Android Chrome up until 2-3 years ago when they “overhauled” their site. Made me refuse to install their app even harder.

Sadly, this seems to make up the vast majority of people.

Yeah, they don’t like anything that sucks more than they do.

So, I assume you’re a guy (or at least have those “parts”) since you’re smacking two heads…

I kinda agree & kinda don’t. I think the problem is OP should have said “you must be significantly more open to changing your opinion.” You still need to validate everything you can before doing so.

Didn’t think I needed to specify “CyanogenMod for Android” since that was the topic at hand. Never mind that three years added to 17 years is a 17.6% increase - that’s a bit more than “just a rounding error.”

20 years ago Android phones didn’t exist, let alone CyanogenMod.

What? No Dexter?!?

Ask for another airplane if you see William Shatner (the original Captain Kirk), or John Lithgow in the window seat.

Summary video.

At this point, it feels like there’s very little left that isn’t malicious.

You should be afraid of it. If your work PC gets infected with it, you could lose your job when all your work files get replaced with hentai.