Entinel

I want to comment on this because you are phrasing it as if people who got the vaccine are in denial and not wanting to talk about it. Topics like this are hard to discuss because they are immediately polarizing and everyone who has a strong opinion but very little understanding of the science feels the to get their quip in about how right they are and how wrong the other people are. You can especially since it in threads relating celebrity deaths with comments like "well we know what REALLY killed them wink wink"

For the people saying "this isn't affordable," decent thermal cameras range in the thousands of dollars.

> There are many good and decent people, who are firmly rooted in reality and facts, that count themselves as part of the Republican base.

I'm sure that's true, but those people aren't being voted for. Those people aren't in power and as long as people are voting for literal Nazis there is no discussion to be had. Can't have a rational discussion with people who don't believe you should even exist.

It worked against Democrats because the Republican base does not care about facts and just need a reason, fact or fiction, to justify the outrage they are told to feel.

No this definitely feels real bad.

You can argue it is more confusing but it is by definition not more restricting. It gives everyone the chance to just use whatever name they want which is the opposite of how restricting unique usernames are. Also, you can already change your display name by server.

Watson had the unfortunate issue of being an IBM product and you couldn't pay me deal with IBM these days.

They don't want to ban it. They want to be pass an Orwellian surveillance bill and Tiktok is being used as a boogeyman.

Saying we should have an off switch is different than saying there is tons of UX work going into making you watch these videos. Especially since there is no incentive on Youtube's part to do this because they don't get a content of sponsored revenue. You are moving goal post.

What UX work goes into making sure you watch sponsored content? Every content creator I know uses chapters to mark where sponsored content is, Youtube has a flag at the beginning of the video to note that this video contains sponsored content. I'd argue they do a lot of UX work to make sure you know this video has a sponsor in it.

Not only that, Youtube specifically notes that a video has sponsored content when you click the video.

This still requires you to pay which brings us back to step 1. You are also implying that the content creator does not use the product and would not mention it otherwise which is not always true.

They are an American business that does not deal with other countries outside North America. Why would they care about the world outside of "ol' Merica?"

What you are doing and what you are saying don't match. Let's be clear here, I think this project is great and I don't want this to come off as a criticism of the project. It's a really fun idea and novel use of machine learning. That being said, the sponsored Youtube content you are targeting avoids all of the issues you are talking about. There is no fingerprinting, shadow profiles, or tracking. Youtuber says "video sponsored by NordVPN use code xXx360NoScopexXx for 50 cents off" and then the sponsor spot is done.