Know a guy that doesn't use an adblocker because "they need to make money" and it just seemed like such a deranged take. Your life is worth so much more than watching the same fucking ads for 5 minutes out of every 15.
My sister is a really weird case. She doesn't buy into some dumb idea of "ads are good or anything", and she finds them annoying, but when I tell her she should install an adblocker she will just... not for some reason. Like it takes literal seconds to find ublock origin and hit install. I've even offered to do it for her but nope. I just don't understand it. Kinda tempted to just install one for her some time when she steps away for a few seconds, doubt she'd even notice.
i think broadly there is a fear of computers. like, we have been trained to feel anxiety that something will go wrong if we interact with computers in any way that is not officially sanctioned by power. this is the main psychological barrier that stands in the way of liberated computing, not any objective qualities of FOSS' user-friendliness vs that of proprietary software or how computer nerds treat non-computer nerds.
100% this because I have experienced this myself. Always felt strange as a kid if I had to use Libre Office because MS Office always seemed more "official" and I had a huge fear that Libre Office would somehow mess up all my homework.
A lot of people seem to have given up on learning the most basic technological functions that aren’t scrolling on a phone. Not even trying to be condescending or snarky. I’ve met so many people who just say “I’m not good with technology” or “that’s too difficult” when I explain the concept of an adblocker in the most basic terms or when I explain to them what an add on is and how to install it.
They just assume technology = hard and automatically reject all information about it. Some of these people are much smarter than me as well, like in the medical field.
I get this a lot too and as the resident "IT guy" for a lot of friends and family you'd think they'd take my advice but it's like they develop some kind of pathological demand avoidance when I start suggesting ways to unenshittify their experience. Like its one thing if I was trying to cajole them into installing arch linux or whatever but come on dude how have you never googled "how to get rid of ads free" in the last twenty years?
Uploaders in the partner program can earn a share of the ad revenue, but Youtube retains the right to put ads on channels that aren't in the program. the main requirement is having 1000 active subscribers.
a friend of mine recently screenshared a youtube video he wanted to show me and an ad started playing and i was like "bro you need to install an adblocker" and he got legit offended by it. and he was like "i want to support the people i watch" and i was thinking "thats not how it fucking works you idiot" but what I said was "ok then it's literally one button to disable it when you want to watch ads" and he got even more offended.
it's like ... it's not a personal choice situation, it's simply the incorrect choice. it's like unprotected sex. if you browse without adblockers you're an idiot. fucking stop it.
The person in question does have an indeterminate amount of head trauma from a car accident, but he's also blue MAGA and would totally vote for Hillary again so idk.
They might be made to change their minds on adblockers after they finally get a fake ad/notification from scammers that will most certainly convince them to give remote access. But it is really weird that they wouldn't just pay for Premium if they actually cared to support the channels getting money (as many of them might fall astray of random ad supported money). Or they could actually subscribe or tip the channels. Though many seem to be inserting their own ads anyway. So if they watch creators that are getting paid sponsorships AND also still watching YT's additional ads, then it is just clown face time for that person.
I'm slowly withdrawing from new media because I can't stand the fucking ads. I'm pretty much only read, listen to audiobooks, and listen to music, because they're the ONLY media left that isn't absolutely infested.
will stop watching rather than submit to ads
Know a guy that doesn't use an adblocker because "they need to make money" and it just seemed like such a deranged take. Your life is worth so much more than watching the same fucking ads for 5 minutes out of every 15.
My sister is a really weird case. She doesn't buy into some dumb idea of "ads are good or anything", and she finds them annoying, but when I tell her she should install an adblocker she will just... not for some reason. Like it takes literal seconds to find ublock origin and hit install. I've even offered to do it for her but nope. I just don't understand it. Kinda tempted to just install one for her some time when she steps away for a few seconds, doubt she'd even notice.
i think broadly there is a fear of computers. like, we have been trained to feel anxiety that something will go wrong if we interact with computers in any way that is not officially sanctioned by power. this is the main psychological barrier that stands in the way of liberated computing, not any objective qualities of FOSS' user-friendliness vs that of proprietary software or how computer nerds treat non-computer nerds.
100% this because I have experienced this myself. Always felt strange as a kid if I had to use Libre Office because MS Office always seemed more "official" and I had a huge fear that Libre Office would somehow mess up all my homework.
A lot of people seem to have given up on learning the most basic technological functions that aren’t scrolling on a phone. Not even trying to be condescending or snarky. I’ve met so many people who just say “I’m not good with technology” or “that’s too difficult” when I explain the concept of an adblocker in the most basic terms or when I explain to them what an add on is and how to install it.
They just assume technology = hard and automatically reject all information about it. Some of these people are much smarter than me as well, like in the medical field.
I get this a lot too and as the resident "IT guy" for a lot of friends and family you'd think they'd take my advice but it's like they develop some kind of pathological demand avoidance when I start suggesting ways to unenshittify their experience. Like its one thing if I was trying to cajole them into installing arch linux or whatever but come on dude how have you never googled "how to get rid of ads free" in the last twenty years?
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Ive done this on people's browsers
Is this praxis?
It's kindness.
My sister does everything from a browser and wasn't interested in an ad blocker when I mentioned her trying NewPipe.
i got a 15 second unskippable ad on a 2 second video of mc ride screaming at a moth
fuck youtube and its ads
before i subscribed, i used to get served ads in the middle of songs.
Don't the ads not even go to the creator, and just go to YouTube?
Uploaders in the partner program can earn a share of the ad revenue, but Youtube retains the right to put ads on channels that aren't in the program. the main requirement is having 1000 active subscribers.
I can understand if it is a partner that you like a lot and you want them to at least get some money (idk how much)
YouTube will still take the majority of the money, you'd do better to just pay for their Patreon or whatever if all you wanted was to give them money.
a friend of mine recently screenshared a youtube video he wanted to show me and an ad started playing and i was like "bro you need to install an adblocker" and he got legit offended by it. and he was like "i want to support the people i watch" and i was thinking "thats not how it fucking works you idiot" but what I said was "ok then it's literally one button to disable it when you want to watch ads" and he got even more offended.
it's like ... it's not a personal choice situation, it's simply the incorrect choice. it's like unprotected sex. if you browse without adblockers you're an idiot. fucking stop it.
why not just buy Youtube Premium if you believe that? you don't have to watch the ads and they get their "needed" money.
The person in question does have an indeterminate amount of head trauma from a car accident, but he's also blue MAGA and would totally vote for Hillary again so idk.
They might be made to change their minds on adblockers after they finally get a fake ad/notification from scammers that will most certainly convince them to give remote access. But it is really weird that they wouldn't just pay for Premium if they actually cared to support the channels getting money (as many of them might fall astray of random ad supported money). Or they could actually subscribe or tip the channels. Though many seem to be inserting their own ads anyway. So if they watch creators that are getting paid sponsorships AND also still watching YT's additional ads, then it is just clown face time for that person.
I'm slowly withdrawing from new media because I can't stand the fucking ads. I'm pretty much only read, listen to audiobooks, and listen to music, because they're the ONLY media left that isn't absolutely infested.
Wait until you hear my latest song: Getting McDonalds ft. Jake from State Farm