pastaPersona,

The honey one is just as useless as the honey extension itself, otherwise the YouTube one seems like it would be super op for studying topics en-mass

kayaven,
@kayaven@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll have to disagree with you. You could buy a lot of items cheaper than $1 for free (insert the I’ll take your entire stock meme here).

You might not be able to sell them on, but you can probably solve world hunger with it by just giving it away. And if you insist of seeing personal benefit: surely the positive karma you get with people could get you something in return. Also no one said anything about trading instead of selling :)

snowe,
@snowe@programming.dev avatar

Inflation would stop that eventually.

shneancy,

youtube for studying topics en-mass? my friend? have you forgotten that wikipedia is a website?

olutukko,

Well you don’t see an ability to fly trough wikipedka articles on the list do you?

shneancy,

having omnescience about a website implies you learn things that are on it instantly, which means a short rabbit hole of clicking on wiki links has the ability to earn you multiple degrees in a week if you’re smart enough to comperhand the topic (this said please don’t use wikipedia as your sole resource)

and there’s always the random article button if you run out of ideas of what to search

HerbalGamer,
@HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works avatar

There’s also a lot of websites with science papers so I’m guessing the knowledge would be nearly limitless.

Scubus,

Yeah but you’ll get spoiled on every show you watch, instantly comprehend the utter bullshit of any flat earth video that gets recommended, and you’ll have seen so much celebrity worship.

Good God, kill me before I suffer

De_Narm,

Some are great. Take the Chrome one: Go to wikipedia and know something about pretty much everything. A lot of knowledge is useful even if you don’t properly understand everything.

Youtube is a lesser version of Chrome.

What’sApp entirely depends on how easily gullible rich people would give you money. You could probably just sell those information too.

Netflix and Amazon could yield some nice money.

Spotify would massively decrease the barrier of learning new instruments if you’re into that. But many of the benefits can be achieved by scrolling through notes/lyrics with the Chrome benefit.

nul9o9,

Reading technical documentation on Chrome would make you an incredible subject matter expert. At the very least, you’d be able to get degrees and certifications pretty easily.

MimicJar,

Chrome + Wikipedia was my plan. Plus “website” is so vague I could also read millions of books. Grab a spot on a show like Jeopardy and become the new chanp.

archonet, (edited )

Amazon, 100%. Bezos doesn’t get any money out of me, and Amazon has fucking everything. Sure, the quality varies sometimes, but who cares if you end up with a dud item when you can just try another listing for free? I’d order shit on the daily just for the fun of it, maybe start an unboxing channel even.

Zoboomafoo,

Amazon doesn’t even have the “no reselling” rule that Honey does

Zaphod,

You could also just order something super expensive for free and just resell it

Name,

Do they sell food?

QuinceDaPence,

Yeah they bought some food company

WarmSoda,

Yup. Whole Foods.

MacNCheezus,
@MacNCheezus@lemmy.today avatar

Yes but they also sell food online on their website (obviously only packaged and durable foods, nothing fresh).

WarmSoda,

That is correct, yes.

Spiralvortexisalie,

They have Amazon Fresh, Groceries on Amazon, and Whole Foods, as various options for fresh food ordered and delivered online. Many areas have same/next day delivery (free with prime+order min), I have noticed there is a difference in overlap between service areas with Whole Foods usually having biggest delivery radius/availability. us.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeI…

andthenthreemore,
@andthenthreemore@startrek.website avatar

Yeah Morrisons, but you have to be a prime member.

Valmond,

Pray they don’t stop …

archonet,
_Sprite,
@_Sprite@lemmy.world avatar

YouTube is just a better Spotify you can look at music thumbnails and just fly through instrument and music theory tutorials

Stern,
@Stern@lemmy.world avatar

Then the algorithm fucks you up and starts throwing Joe Rogan bullshit at you.

_Sprite, (edited )
@_Sprite@lemmy.world avatar

While that’s happening, I never considered scrolling through playlists of multiple mechanical and scientific shit and basically becoming Jimmy Neutron overnight. By then you’d be the greatest inventor/handyman/musician and I doubt a stray video about bullshit would ruin all of that

explodicle,

I’d just use Piped and adblock to control which ones I actually absorb.

redempt,

the YouTube one, are you kidding me? I could find a free course on how to do nearly anything, I could just scroll through a playlist and instantly learn months worth of material.

BigBananaDealer,
@BigBananaDealer@lemm.ee avatar

im going to watch so many elder scrolls lore videos

wlsnt,

I’ll finally get what dark souls 2 lore is about

hemko,

All fun and games until you open a link to some playlists of nazi conspiracies

TheBERFA,

Are you saying that these videos would convert you?

hemko,

Doubt, but do you really want to have that shit littering your brain?

I’m happy the most disturbing shit I’ve been exposed was Happy Tree Friends, MLP jar, lemon party and backstreet boys.

AgnosticMammal,

Tiktok is tempting if you could get a job as a social media manager

Buddahriffic,

Yeah, and with the way social media works, there’s a decent chance that after establishing a pattern of being able to predict trends, you’ll be able to choose them. You don’t even have to be a social media manager to make money from that. Sell celebrity status. Or don’t when someone comes to you but you can’t predict them going viral.

Or on a different angle, you could predict stocks that are about to go viral. Depending on how far in advance, you’ll also be able to predict future events and things like election outcomes. If you use your power to become well known on social media and can get stuff about yourself trending, you’ll be able to predict your own life. And if you can set trends with self-fulfilling prophecies, you could start revolutions or bring down regimes (or at least generate popular opposition).

wesker,
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

Virtually any kind of business or marketing advisor gig, really. You’d be a golden goose.

cooljacob204,

Tiktok one is by far the best. Downside barely there.

turddle,

Yeah people are hopping on the Amazon one (which isn’t a bad choice) but predicting the future of trends like that is powerful. Especially once you become accustomed to it and can capitalize on them

Mango,

Amazon. I can have anything. Even if restaurants count as stores, I can cook. I can also sell my free cars to buy drugs or whatever from places that aren’t stores. Heck, I can trade or pay individuals to do whatever.

explodicle,

It doesn’t specify stores

Mango,

It does say shop.

generic,
@generic@iusearchlinux.fyi avatar

I pick Firefox, what does that get me?

clubb,
@clubb@lemmy.world avatar

It gives you the brain to not use the apps listed in the post!

casmael,

I think the loophole here is Spotify, because with all that knowledge, you are two or three relatively minor skill issues away from total musical mastery

WarmSoda,

My question is how would you know exactly how to play a song but not be able to play any instruments. That doesn’t make any sense.

If you know how to play the chords for the verse, chorus and bridge then you know how to play it on guitar.

can,

Not if you don’t know which strings to press and where.

Shotpun,

As soon as you learn the instrument you know how to play every song on it, but that doesn’t mean you have the skill necessary to play it

MagnyusG,

Muscular dystrophy.

WarmSoda,

Oh good one. Didn’t think about that.
Or paralyzed from the neck down.

Scribbd,

I think it would be like drawing. If you don’t have aphantasia and have an epic image in mind, and basically only be able to put it down in stick figures.

In this case, you might know what strings to press and how hard to strum those strings. But you still need to get your fingers on those strings without tangling them and know how to pluck and strum them.

WarmSoda,

Oh man, as an artist and musician I feel this

TheSlad,

Youtube. Would save me so much time…

But also the amazon one would be nice, it would just require a lot of careful planning.

wesker, (edited )
@wesker@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

A couple of these are really tempting. I need more information about Amazon, specifically do I get to choose the free items? There doesn’t seem to be any stipulation that I can’t resell them, so that’s good.

esc27,

Seems easy to loophole around as well. Since the downside is “you” can only shop at Amazon, you just need someone else to do your regular shopping. Of course you could be screwed if Amazon ever shuts down.

Aesk,

The Tiktok one is definitely underrated. You could start the most successful advertising company. Or grow a content farm worth billions.

YouTube would be insanely powerful, but only if you can control it. It could be a disaster if you open up YouTube and immediately fill your head with Jimmy Fellon clips and various Top 10 lists.

BananaPeal,
@BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works avatar

Amazon will make me so much money that I can afford to hire people to shop other places for me.

macaroni1556,

You have to hire them on amazon though

BananaPeal,
@BananaPeal@sh.itjust.works avatar

No shopping involved if I just hire friends and family.

macaroni1556,

Only if you can buy friends and family on amazon ™

jacktherippah, (edited )

The YouTube one is OP. I can learn so much.

Mediocre_Bard,

The YouTube one, for sure. I could learn so much!

ZOSTED,

But what if you’re just glancing across the recommended thumbnails and learning things you don’t want to know

Mediocre_Bard,

I want to know everything.

ZOSTED,

fair

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