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[โ€“] [email protected] 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Escaping Tech Giants => is a "youtuber"

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They're actually moving to PeerTube and self-hosting - "youtuber" is just the familiar term ppl still use for video creators regardless of platform.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I am trying to avoid using Google as a verb, turns out it's harder than switching to a different search engine

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

well, maybe it helps to know that companies don't actually want their brand name to become a generic term, even if it seems like a sign of immense success. The brand name loses its distinctiveness as a trademark. Essentially, the public starts to perceive the brand name as the name of the thing itself, rather than a specific brand of that thing.

For instance, in the UK, people still say things like, "I'm going to hoover the front room" to mean they're going to clean it with a vacuum cleaner. Notice that the brand of vacuum cleaner doesn't actually matter in this case - most people own non-Hoover vacuums, yet will still say, "love, get me the hoover out the cupboard".

Other brands that this has happened to include Aspirin, Cellophane, Band-Aid.

So maybe we should actually start saying, "I'm going to google this with Qwant". In principle, we'd be undermining and devaluing the brand.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I love that, definitely will use this