hmmm ...a balanced well thought reply....Thank you. I'd tend to agree with this analysis.

Yarrr lad.

So lets say they paywall the linux forum you're interested in ... What is your next step ?

Does it do that only when a drive is split between the two OS's Win11/linu or does it also do that to each HD...i Dual boot, but i have dedicated drives for each OS ...Am i safe ?

They knew beforehand that would be the analysis... so naturally they just said "WATCH US SUKA"!

With this from chrome, and Reddit going paywalls do you think we'll see another spike in Lemmy traffic...i think it's a safe bet.

No ....no it's not it just isn't. What this is a sensationalist headline trying to sow discord, despair, and defeat.

I understand the implication of a future where Trump or his like were in charge, but as dark as it looks I still think the majority of our country has better sense than to elect him president again. So what if he makes the Republican nomination it just confirms their lawless criminality.

In other words STOP with the crap attitudes that trump is "Inevitable" Shit... he's not.

You have a choice A. Be a Chad who Dumps Chrome and chromium based browsers . or B. remain a whiny loser who has to deal with ads.

It's shit like this that really just makes me want to start the Butlerian Jihad for real.

Prepare for an incoming 2nd wave of Rexxit.

Does anyone else ever notice that the changes like this they make are done piece mail, brick by brick ,they continue to shitify the service. That's intentional...Imagine you tube in the year 2009. I'm betting no one really remembers, and youtube made the same bet.

How many things have they taken away that users really like over the years think about it. Now imagine they did all those changes AT ONCE...TODAY... from 2005 at inception. Horrifying huh ?

Big companies always start off with an amazing array of "Standard Features" that they allow everyone to use, so that the users get hooked on them, then suddenly they make an announcement like this and they change, remove, or premium tier a feature. They know you wont like it... but they got you hooked and they know it and they dont care. It's all driven at profiteering as much as they can off of you. Honestly I see youtube trying to become like Netflix by continuing to increase inconvenience with ads (for their profit), and ultimately making Youtube a completely payed service subscription to everyone.

They gaslight the great majority into just giving in to more ads, shittier service, and eventually a payed subscription by breaking your outrage up into small little pieces over time. STOP LETTING THEM !

Edit: So yeah Twitter/X as predicted.