Yea exactly. Both variants are funny in their own way. And I don’t think anybody thinks that someone who’s doing a big/small dick joke is seriously referring to their actual size.

Otherwise we’d all constantly smell like fart. Cause a fart is just opening that hole and pushing air out.
(… or maybe we do smell like fart constantly and just don’t know cause we don’t smell smells that constantly hit our nose)

Honestly, having to have the user type “I agree that I have verified the application i am trying to install is genuine and not a fraudulent app”

Yeah, this would be the most promising approach IMO. Whenever I was forced to write something, I did pay more attention to what that said than if I ticked a box next to it.

Maybe even have them write “I am not instructed to install this app by someone else. I am aware that following instructions to install an app this way often have fraudulent intentions”.

(Also if the language was changed recently, it should ask to write it in all languages that were set within the last 14 days or so. Otherwise the scammer will have them switch the language so they don’t understand what they’re writing)

And why?

Must’ve been the wind.

Yeah I get that but the way I experienced it is that ads can appear in a podcast in any of the following three instances:

• Podcaster themselves record the podcast, may or may not add advertisement (self-spoken in their language)
• Podcast network which the podcaster is a member of adds ad break time codes, in which later ads are inserted, dynamically based on the listener’s location (pre-spoken, usually in the local language of the listener’s location, sometimes personalized)
• The podcast player/platform (Spotify, Pocket casts, antennapod etc) adds advertisements (also pre-spoken and in local or app language, more often personalized)

The podcast player’s ads can not be distinguished from the podcast network’s ads, except that they have a higher tendency for personalized ads (given that personalization is enabled in the privacy settings) or if the player declares it as an advertisement in a place where the podcast can’t. Or if you know that a podcast is on an ad free network. Other than that, you don’t really know if it’s an ad by Spotify or the podcast’s network.

My point is that, unless your player is explicitly declaring an ad as such, you cannot diatinguish a podcast network’s ad from a player ad. The only proof I have to know it’s a network’s ad in my case is that my player is open source and ad free. If I used a closed source commercial player, I wouldn’t know from who the ad is coming when it’s in my local language.
I’m German too and got German ads on english podcasts, but I know that the player didn’t insert it, so you can never be too sure if it’s Spotify adding them either.

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TLDR: I know it because the ads were German but the podcast is in English.

That can still happen and happens to me too, despite using a no-ad FOSS player, so the ads are definitely from the podcast, not the player.
Dynamic ad insertion is absolutely a thing in podcasts. If you access/download the MP3 file on the server from a German IP address, a German ad will be put in at the specified ad break before you/your player downloads the file.

So a different language ad doesn’t mean it’s from Spotify.

(PS: By the way, using a VPN connected to a country where not many companies make podcast ads works basically like a podcast ad blocker. I route my podcast player through an Albania VPN and have like 80% less ads than before. The remainder is “classic” podcast ads that are inserted as a static part of the MP3 file, no way to get rid of those.)

Hmm I don’t know actually, but now I’m curious too. From quick search:

As the newspaper Handelsblatt explains, “angst about potential surveillance is rooted in Germany’s past.” The combined legacy of the Nazi Gestapo and the East German Stasi are thought to be part of the reason Germany has been a pioneer in data protection — with legislation dating back to the 1970’s.

https://www.codastory.com/surveillance-and-control/coronavirus-germany-privacy/

I’m probably quite biased being German myself, but I feel like that things like privacy and security tend to be more important to Germans than to other folks. And I don’t speak just about the tech bubble, it shows everywhere.

To give a random example, when a license plate has been blurred in a photo posted anywhere, chances are high it’s been posted by a German. Despite the fact that there is no license plate lookup (like carfax for US, finnik.nl for Netherlands, car.info for Sweden etc) so a license plate wouldn’t even reveal anything to anyone, yet we treat it like a secret on instinct. If you ask such a German why he blurred it, he probably won’t have a reasonable response, he just does it because he feels like it.
(Edit: Just look through the used cars here, most if not all will have their plates censored given they have plates on them lol)

Getting back to topic, this might not be the only explanation, but I’m pretty sure it’s a noticable factor why Germans are especially present on platforms like this, i.e. platforms that tend to respect the user’s privacy more than the big tech corporations.

Yeah, same. What a BS statement above lol

Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that!

It’s disabled on mine too, that’s why it asks first whether I want to open it in the store.
It still goes to the play store (website) when I refuse to open it in the play store (app), as can be seen in the video.

One example I know is Instagram, here’s an example. Can’t click anywhere without being redirected to the play store.
I don’t use it, it’s just the first that came to my mind, but in the rare cases someone sends me a link to it I can’t really view what they sent me because of this. And I surely won’t make an account just to see a meme or some shit.

as people get pretty fucking creepy about tracking you when you vote them down.

Can one see who voted on a comment here? Or is that just when it’s likely by logical assumption (like a reply on a 3 months old comment getting downvoted after 2 minutes -> has to be from the person whose comment was replied to)

The worst are the sites that just redirect you to the play/app store when visiting on mobile.
I’m surely NOT installing your fucking app after you give me a bad experience (by not showing me the content I’ve received a link to) while I’m a “guest visitor” to your site.

Tax them abroad then. Don’t the USA for example require Americans to tax their income even if they live and work abroad?

They could then still live in a place where you can’t enforce it, like Dubai. But that effectively results in blocking them from entering your country - and any country you have an extradition treaty with. Because you have an outstanding arrest warrant against them at some point. Plus you can confiscate any assets left behind like companies or real estate.

So at the end of the day, they’ll have to decide between a financial cap of (for example) 1 billion or being very limited in traveling. I know what I’d choose.
Surely some will still go for the ‘limited travel’ option an avoid taxation, but I suppose most rich people don’t want to be locked in a country like UAE without any actual benefit (you don’t really notice the difference between having 1 billion and 30 billion I suppose, you basically have unlimited money either way).

Me neither. It’s the same as the /TikTokCringe subreddit which Ive had subscribed to to see some curated TT content (other than the name suggests they don’t post only cringe content but anything interesting).

Just because I don’t like a platform and decide to not use it that doesn’t mean I can’t enjoy the content from there.

“Send this to 3 people that love you or I will die”

Even if they decide to send it, that will have them wondering forever who of the 3 doesn’t love them lol

I live near the A7, a North/South directed highway in Germany going all the way from DK to AT and I also live near a motorcycle hotspot/meetup point.
In the summer, there are so many Scandinavians doing just that, making long distance travels with motorcycles, sometimes even with these small motorcycle trailers attached. They go camping in my town and continue the next day further south (or back up north respectively).

I don’t have a bike nor do I like camping, but I love seeing these guys every time :D