The short answer is that they don’t believe any of the things OP said, or they can overlook them because they believe worse things about Biden/the democrats.

Views don’t update in real time but likes do. Always happens with big videos like this. It’s something to do with YouTube reconciling the view counts across multiple servers, which gets very difficult with large numbers. It’s a bit easier for them to create a stable like count when each user can only like it once, so they’re essentially adding that user to a list and then counting the length of the list.

That’s not the headline or the description written by the OP lol

That is not the obvious interpretation, and the headline (and description added by OP) are deliberately written to imply something that’s not true.

Hm yeah weird. I tried chrome just to test and the scrolling is definitely slightly different but I don’t think it’s smoother. Just kinda tweaked differently I guess. Haven’t tried bromite tho.

Feels exactly the same to me (if not slightly faster due to adblocking). You might just be mistaking familiarity with Chrome for it being tangibly better.

Cry more

I understand this, but I’m sure some are choosing not to buy because of Musk as well.

IMO as an outsider Singapore is less fucked up than America. It’s got some rough edges for sure though lol.

That’s not the death penalty and they didn’t make an argument. They were stating a fact.

I wonder how much of this is fulfilment of old orders (prior to Musk ruining his public image). It’d be interesting to see a chart of the amount of orders they’re getting rather than cars they’re shipping.

I’ve noticed some transphobia and homophobia recently too (usually from lemmy.world accounts 👀)

Brave has recently had some controversy around selling user data for AI training and isn’t really a great suggestion for privacy due to this.

How is this not a bigger story? What the fuck?? This is cataclysmic. It should be all we’re fucking hearing about. Fuck.

The stuff about recording your camera/tracking eyes/recording mic are all bullshit (ish). That stuff is all possible, and does happen, but not from popular apps. You don’t really need to worry about that unless you’re going to really dodgy websites (and giving them access to your camera/mic), OR if you’re a high profile figure who may be targeted by far more sophisticated attacks. These privacy invasions are uncommon in popular websites and apps because it’s very easy for users to discover that kind of data/processing usage, and the blow to their reputation is far more expensive than the profits they’d get from recording you (not even sure what the commercial incentive would be for that). There are thousands of nerds like me in the cyber security industry who monitor websites network activity for this kind of shady shit, so they wouldn’t get away with it.

Location is a far cheaper (and less conspicuous, data-usage-wise) process, so far more apps will be recording that. Google, Facebook, Apple, and likely dozens more companies know exactly where you’ve been throughout the day, whether by GPS or by wifi (maps of the locations of different wifi networks exist).

As for targeted advertising - any app or website that has a share button for Facebook or other apps is most likely sharing your usage habits with those apps. This is a symbiotic relationship for the apps/websites, because letting Facebook know you’ve been searching their site for X means Facebook will start showing you ads for X, and you might go and purchase from them after seeing that ad. Many believe their phones are listening to them because their targeted advertising is so specific, but the reality is they don’t need to listen to you. They get far better info from your searches and browsing history.

Sorry no sources at the moment because I’m at the gym, but I guess my source is that I graduated with a bachelor’s in cyber security in February lol.