That’s what you can do when you can face no repercussions, love it or hate it the majority of voters have voted for this.

I couldn’t even read the text from the prompts on a laptop’s screen!

Too small for that type of font

Now let’s look at Who those 10% of world population are:

Right! mostly Americans and our rich westener friends. propably contributing 100 times more than a fella from Zimbabwe does.

I wonder what would be the effect of wrapping the car with holographic paper on those flock cameras.

No not the author. When I checked I found an issues was already submitted but the project maintainers already restricted it.

What the article doesn’t mention is that a year ago CGTrader introduced a pay to rank feature. meaning if creators want their products to show up in search results they will have to pay to rise up above the junk. they have allowed AI content to pollute the platform so they can can make even more profit

CGTrader is a cancerous company. They have implemented every feature they can think of to screw their creators, and increase their profit margins on the back of the hard working 3d artists :

1- After becoming one of the biggest 3d markets (I think 2nd) they have lowered creator’s share from sales from 70% to 60%

2- They have allowed 3d generated trash to be sold along side human created content taking away traffic from creators

3- They have introduced a pay to to rank for products. meaning on top of the 40% share they are taking, now they expect creators to pay to have a chance for their products to show up in a very crowded maket

4- 5 Out of 7 days of the week. CGTrader is running sales, with the lowest discount on weekends being 30 % and on weekdays being 50%. Creators who don’t opt-in to those sales shouldn’t hope to receive any views to their products. they are pressuring prices down because they can earn more on volume. while mid sized creator shops take the loss.

5- They are introducing subscriptions akin to spottily. If most customers switch into subscriptions instead of buying single product, than creator’s revenue will quickly crater

6- Now the Cherry on the top : they have introduced the option for users to directly generate AI 3d models. trained on the millions of models the platform is hosting. Despite providing the option to opt-out products from ai training, it is hard to trust such a greedy company to honor creators choice. especialy when no one has access to the training data set and no independent company has made an audit.

Since CGTrader introduced all these changes my revenue went down 65% compared to before.

If you care about human created content and creator’s agency. avoid buying from CGTrader and TurboSquid ,most creators have their products listed elsewhere. and if you buy from their own shops the creators will receive a bigger share cutting out these cancerous middlemen.

I know they are doing their best to keep up with yt shenanigans. but they sometimes make decisions that hurt the user experience. like removing the reload option from the video page. its incomprehensible why the removed a feature that probably didn’t interfere with the rest of the software performance

ublock origin only blocks ads.

But if you want a bit of privacy it can’t stop youtube from collecting your data and keeping you in a feedloop bubble.

With these types of clients yt can’t track you. and everytime i reload the app it’s like I am new user to them they don’t have all my browsing history. plus you can subscribe to channel without logging into yoututbe

didn’t know they made a desktop version. will try out thanks!

They removed Ctrl*r from video pages since around April

Yes. by clicking ‘r’ you were able to reload the video page. but it was remove around April, and it only works on the search page.

They cited something unconvincing I don’t remember why exactly but they are blocking all discussions about it since.

My dad listens to AI generated stories. I still don’t know if he realizes they are Fictional AI stories, or if this is his way of killing time by this instead of listening to audio books. I guess audiobooks take commitment

It has already changed a lot of things in my life to the worst. that I am scared what it would look like once It changes ‘Everything’

Will try that, thanks!

I wouldn’t have thought of that but it is too cumbersome of a workaround, and running and android vm makes my laptop run hot

I am stating facts. which I assume you guys don’t care about.

Russia is exploiting the poorest of the poor with information warfare and false promises.

for a bit of nuance: the majority of latin america mercernaries work for the Ukranian Foreign Legion. and their salaries is a less than half of what Russia pays it mercernaries. so both are exploiting the poorest of the poor. and Ukraine is doind it for cheaper.

An important chunk of the LATAM mercenaries working for ukraine are actual criminals and ex gang members who have been approached by semi-official gov agencies and foreign spy corps to fight for Ukraine in exchange for reduced sentences and clearance of their criminal records. and in some cases like in Columbia and Mexico, their have been arrangements with local social security services to facilitate the process of receiving insurance money if they die fighting for Ukraine.

Why do you people insist on mischaracterizing what other people say?

In economics, Free money refers to money borrowed at low interest rates. and I made it even more clear when I talked about the need for more competition and the depreciation of the dollar. There is already too much money in circulation and borrowing at low interest rates gives room to corporations and the wealthy to ramp up prices, buy up more property and and make the lower class compete for limited products, instead of corporation competing to earn their customers dollars.

If the question of free money isn’t resolved than inflation will always outpace wages to a point where it might feel like going back to the feudal times.

Ten years too late.

This could have had a far greater impact when whatsapp exodus or controversy happend in 2021. I bet they have reached a stall in the number of new accounts and donations are drying out.

I have also read rumors about them thinking about tying this to a one time payment to prevent bot registration