On youtube I see tons of avatars and mentions of clippy, the oldscool windows help tool. Are they protesting something?

  • tisktisk@piefed.social
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    3 days ago

    More slacktivism so the masses can feel they’re “doing their part” and go back to their usual routine of idleness

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      3 days ago

      I’d love to show my support for the cause, but yeah, majority of people are just using a fancy new pfp and calling it a day, and I don’t want to associate with those people lol

      If every people using a clippy pfp would start using foss over big tech, then we could maybe start making a noticeable impact.

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      3 days ago

      It’s kinda hard with something like youtube because A) it’s become too big to fail, and B) there aren’t too many alternatives with enough server space and stability to compete. People try, but 3 out of 5 people refuse to build it, so no one comes.

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        3 days ago

        Well, what about just not using your Google Account for stuff like YouTube, and instead using something like Freetube for newpipe?

        That would be… At least a better Start them handing over you data to google, BuT iN sTyLe!1!!111elf by using a clippy Pfp

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        3 days ago

        I didn’t say it was bad or who it’s bad for. I’m just too old to pretend it will be effective

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        3 days ago

        That’s the joke: they are still using it. Every comment section I look through via newPipe is full of these Clippy Pfps. And they are written After the Clippy PFP thing. And, like, NOT writing comments would be the least effort, in which you could „boycott” them.

        Truely astonishing levels of stupidity.