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(parodical) YouTube popup:

Going to pee during the ad break violates YouTube’s Terms of Service

  • It looks like you selfishly left the room while our ads were playing. Don’t you know that by watching youtube you entered a CONTRACT?!
  • We killed the competition by operating at a loss for a decade. We paid good money to be the only game in town.
  • Now that there are no other options, we can start to make that money back however we like. So turn your webcam on so that our advertisers know you’re paying attention.

(Two buttons, first one suggested)

Let us program your brain

Foot the bill directly

  • Endorkend@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    The thing with Google isn’t that they removed the “don’t be evil” mantra they held for 2 decades.

    It’s that in the 5 years since officially removing that mantra, they’ve done their best to be the most cartoonishly evil they can be.

    • lugal@sopuli.xyz
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      1 year ago

      You make it sound as if they started after they removed the mantra

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        1 year ago

        Oh no, but they sure as hell went balls to the walls Austin Powers tier cartoonishly evil since then.

        • Petri@sh.itjust.works
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          1 year ago

          Sounds like a stable diffusion prompt. Dr Evil Googler laughing and telling YouTube user to drink another verification can of mountain dew.