I love how we've just looped back around to having network television again, truly the peak of innovation
YouTube's Automated system wanted to put 5 midroll ads in this 12 minute video by the way. Absolutely incredible.
I just want to say that I fucking love Sponsorblock and uBlock Origin.
My issue is mobile, in the house it's fine with a pi hole (fucking pis are sold out everywhere tho god damn), but outside... man it's nutty.
Almost everything ppl use genuine raspberry pis for can be done using the $15 orange pi zero.
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If you use a pihole to block ads at home you can install an openvpn service on it and set your phone up to tunnel to your home first then make requests from there, giving you a blocking on the go!
Also you can look at porn on your works wifi.
You can watch YouTube in a mobile browser that has adblock, you don't have to use the app
why? firefox is available on every mobile platform I'm aware of and then the uBlock Origin extension can be installed. Every company that asks me to install their app can go fuck themselves
Well I unfortunately learned via a friend that iOS Firefox doesn't support add-ons. :visible-disgust:
Try newpipe for mobile if you're on Android. Its Foss and gives you really nice features (video overlay, download, ad free, play video/music while in lockscreen, etc.)
Did pihole bring out an update? I thought it's not able to block YouTube. I need it for the TV
Been using Firefox since 2007. Never went back to IE or shudders Chrome. Hell, I even installed Firefox on all the computers I got my fingers on at work as a computer technician - the computers we were meant to resell, were fixing for clients and even the work computers. And with uBlock installed too.
Acestream used to be pretty good for live sports but that shit freaks me out so I stopped using it
What freaks you out about it? I have no idea what that is and am curious as an old person.
It wanted to start up by itself on startup and start seeding shit whenever which doesn't sit right with me. You can of course easily disable this behavior from your OS but the fact that it does this by default seems sketchy. It's also closed source.
Discord freaks me out the same way. I use it, mostly because my friends do and insist I do the same, but I hate how invasive it is, how it keeps making itself known when I'm playing whatever game, how it makes obnoxious "helpful" suggestions for how to be more bazinga, and how it starts itself unprompted and takes resources by default and that I have to shut the damn thing off through the task manager when I'm not using it.
I don't use discord for similar reasons, but at least discord isn't using your bandwidth to download/upload potentially gigs of unknown stuff without even asking
Its just a short amount of time until they start making the Premium accounts have to watch ads as well. Probably once they've fully cornered the cable TV market
I don’t know why it surprised me, but I got a pretty lengthy ad on YouTube for some film Candice Owens made and it was batshit.
I guess for some stupid reason I thought Google might know better but then I remembered that’s practically their business model.
As a matter of fact, with the combination of NordVPN and Skillshare, I barely ever have to watch ads at all!
I love how we’ve just looped back around to having network television again, truly the peak of innovation
Pretty much. Netflix has its "ad supported" tier. And with all these studios and networks launching their own streaming services you're also back to paying a boatload of money if you want to watch content across different services.
Its yet another example of capitalism doing its thing. Cord-cutting was supposed to be an easier and cheaper alternative to cable and all its done is become the very thing it was supposed to replace.
NGL, not too familiar with the history of cable, but that's fucking hilarious. History repeats itself:doomer:
It really sucks that advertising and marketing is the primary means of monetization for “free” services/product online. And even with monetization as it is creators, don’t even get a fraction of the value from the data that these mega corporation scrape from users. The value generated from the cookies and tracking and meta-data and all that other stuff that these companies really get value from a creator gets a fraction of a nano crumb of it.
It especially sucks when the "freemium" model is used for things that have to be paid for anyway.
Exactly dude! Fuckin' EXACTLY! It's not enough for these companies to make 99.81% of the money, they have to make ALL of the money. We have all the shitty version of widgets, gizmos, and gadgets we read about in sci-fi novels. This modern technofuture blows.
wait, what is this?
inpainting?just realised you probably meant implanting, still i'd like to hear more about this technologyIf that happens I will simply download classics such as Hausu and Wolf Warrior 2 to watch with my homies
On the one hand, yes. Direct-to-Creator Patreon is good and genuinely supports better content than I get ad-supported. But on another, this is just more of the same subscription shit.
I would very much prefer a LeftTube single service than to spend $50/mo buying a dozen different podcasts a la carte.
Fuck it, dream bigger. Public libraries but for streaming content. Access to culture should be a public good just like access to physical books is.
Tempted to do it myself, I mean it's a whole extra video every week and there are tons of stinky nuggets, dinguses, and garbo headphones
terminally online
Not using adblockers
You can't make this stuff up folks
Yes, but unlike network TV the ads are scientifically tailored through the magic of beep-beep computer AI to target you personally and thereby manipulate you even better!
Pretty insane that google still charges full price for YouTube premium even though it was originally meant to give you access to YouTube originals and google play music, now it gives you access to neither of these things
Ads are not always easily avoidable, especially when in line somewhere or in a waiting room.
Does every fucking car have to be a spiritual journey of self discovery where the treat haver has an epiphany about what a remarkable Main Character they are on the (always empty except them) road of life? :so-true:
Simply wear noise canceling headphones. If I don't hear honking and am run over by a motorist going over 25 in an urban center, so be it!
