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I like the biblically accurate clippy.
3.1 million views in 10 days:
tl;dw please?
Clippy doesn't want to steal your data. Clippy just wants to help.
Clippy doesn't want to steal your data
It would if it could.
Clippy keeps working with no Internet.
It's being used as a symbol against corporate greed
Which is super ironic because it’s a corporate mascot that managed to become universally hated by everyone. Then again, those were simpler times, so modern companies would deserve much more than mere hatred.
The irony is part of it, from what I can tell.
That Clippy, the universally hated useless feature, is still less shitty than what these companies are doing today.
Badgey was terrifying. Fucking love LD
Things have gotten so bad, that even Clippy begins to look acceptable. What a bizarre world this is.
You could actually turn Clippy off as well. Copilot doesn’t really go away, and you can’t trust Microshaft to re-enable via updates. Out of the two I’d much prefer the maligned Clippy.
Unfortunately Clippy would get randomly re-enabled, like all microsoft zombies, after an update. You never knew when it would come back to insult your intelligence.
OMG it’s been going on for decades now. That’s not a bug at this point — that’s a feature.
Some teenage girl deleted a picture of herself on facebook and facebook marked her to sell beauty products to, because she must be insecure and therefor an easy target. Clippy never did that. Clippy was just there to help and had no ulterior motives. Every big company in the world has ulterior motives now. The clippys are meant to show them it's been enough.
the big companies have always had 'ulterior motives' driven by their insatiable lust for more profits and higher share prices.
That is not true. The cycle is that someone with passion for the business creates the business and they are a good business. Than they grow and the creator can't handle it anymore, because they are craftsmen, not business men. Than some business men step in and eshittify everything for profit.
The MS of the late 00s and the MS of now are no different ideologically. If they'd had the same tools and capabilities then, they'd have done the same.
Thanks!
clippy is now a right-to-repair icon. the idea is that if lots of ppl change their YT profile pic to clippy, people in power will feel threatened and cave in. or maybe corporations will see theres a market there and make repairable devices.
the idea is that if lots of ppl change their YT profile pic to clippy, people in power will feel threatened and cave in.
It can't be that stupid...
There's a second, very important part to it. Sure, you can just change your profile picture to a Clippy in solidarity with the movement, but it's supposed to mean that you WILL fight back against anti-consumer business practices in your life, especially if you work for a company that uses such practices.
If your boss wants you to implement something that benefits the company over the consumer (or the employees), you stall. You find problems. You work as slow as humanly possible. You work on other things first. etc. You'll be as annoying as Clippy, perhaps.
As a consumer, you won't buy that device that requires Internet for no other reason than the manufacturer reserves the right to brick it at their pleasure. You won't sign up for subscription services that should be one-and-done purchases, etc.
Hahahaha, that's funny.
Just try that, it is painfully obvious and will affect you in today's "360 review world"
As I understood it, the message was more about that if you want to start a grassroot movement, people need to see they're not alone, that there are others out there who feel the same. Make clippy your profile Pic and see it pop up everywhere. Power through mass. Treating the status quo then comes naturally ;)
Can't it!?*gestures wildy at humanity*
What's "ppl"?
shorthand for people. im lazy
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I like the sentiment in that. I've had the RIF logo on my reddit account for a while now. Same sentiment, except I never log in there anymore.
It's a call to action from Louis Rossmann a consumer rights activist. It's supposed to help people understand how many other people are actually interested in consumer rights/right to repair/right to ownership/privacy.
There are a few videos explaining the concepts, you may want to look it up.
The only measurable outcome so far is an increase in contributions to consumerights.wiki, a wiki aiming to be a resource for consumer rights activism.
It's really fun to find clippy in the wild. Fediverse related videos/channels are more likely to have comments from clippy, but you may find him anywhere really.
More slacktivism so the masses can feel they're "doing their part" and go back to their usual routine of idleness
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.
Tsmt Any direct action is better than a performative pfp change
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.
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
Lately I've been having problems with Freetube but haven't with Materialious, for now.
Don't know if Freetube is working for anyone else, but I think it's slowly being stopped by the most recent yt features made to kill all 3rd party clients. At least on my end it sure feels like it.
I have not been able to find either of those apps.
So, you typed it into your browser, or codeberg, or obtainium, or whatever, and nothing came out?
ah. the old layperson should totally be able to do this nonstandard thing or not complain argument. Get it. Its as old as when tech was AV guys.
Well, that's a good thing. If done right, like not using their service anymore, aka boycotting.
I didn't say it was bad or who it's bad for. I'm just too old to pretend it will be effective
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.
I saw one that implied clippy associated with something besides microsoft that I did not get. When it comes to in crowd things you sorta got to shrug your shoulders and wait for something meaningful to come your way. I post all sorts of easter egg type comments meant for people who saw a particular movie or whatnot.
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