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yukichigai , 9 months ago

I mean what's worse: using a human shield, or deciding "nah fuck them kids shoot through them anyway."

yukichigai , 9 months ago

False dilemma. There are ways to react that don't involve shooting children.

Even if there weren't, I wouldn't say "yeah shoot some children."

yukichigai , 9 months ago

That article was full of such blatantly misleading crap. Headline talks about record number of adblocker uninstalls, but the actual data says it was an uptick in both installs and uninstalls. In other words it was people cycling through different adblockers trying to find one that still worked.

yukichigai , 9 months ago

Sponsors don't pay the creator less if you skip the sponsor segment. That's not tracked, at least not in a way that google will share with the creator or anyone else. If that changes someday, sure, you have a point. For now skipping the sponsor segment is as harmless as skipping through the commercials on TV.

yukichigai , 9 months ago

The content creators get paid the exact same whether I skip the sponsor segment or not. YouTube doesn't track that, or not in a way they share with anyone else at any rate. Sponsors aren't going to pay the content creators less due to skips since they literally cannot see who skips the segment.

In other words, it doesn't hurt the content creator in the slightest.

yukichigai , 9 months ago

I commented elsewhere, but the headline was referencing an 80% rise in uninstalls during the month, but the article itself revealed that there was a matching rise in installs during that same month. In other words it was people uninstalling their old adblockers and installing a new one, cycling through them to find one that worked.

yukichigai , 9 months ago

There was a post yesterday saying that the price of YT Premium Family in Australia is almost literally doubling next month (+88% IIRC). People from a few other regions reported similar. Completely insane.

yukichigai , 9 months ago

Cheaper bulbs, definitely. I had a corner display cabinet I tried to switch over to using an LED bulb; the compartment for the bulb was nearly sealed and also lined with reflective materials, so the exterior got hotter to the touch than it ever did with an incandescent bulb. Damn thing started flickering and malfunctioning a few months in. Tried another LED bulb and the same thing happened only on a slightly longer time frame. Finally just gave up and went back to an incandescent bulb.

yukichigai , 9 months ago

Swag. The more we show up in search, the more people will be asking "what the heck is Lemmy?" Some of 'em will join.

Well then. Here. We. Go.

yukichigai , 9 months ago

Sorta-kinda: I have an old launch iPhone that I've held onto so I can use it as an overbuilt iPod Touch. No apps, no phone service, it just works for playing music and does it well. I don't use it super frequently, but every so often I just wanna play some music offline without having to worry about anything else, and it does a great job.

If I went out more not in the car I'd probably get another proper MP3/DAC player. Back in the day I had a Sansa Clip I bought as an impulse Black Friday purchase and that thing was absolute fire. Small, great battery life, showed up in Windows as a standard external storage device, even had an FM tuner built in. Only downside was that it only had 2gigs of storage, but that just made me be a bit more choosy with what I put on it. If the damn thing hadn't wound up going through the wash on accident I might still be using it to this day.

yukichigai , 9 months ago

Various state and federal accessibility laws would've made that a very questionable decision for a lot of industries. Given that it would cost money simply to get programmers to implement and might lead to more costs from legal challenges I suspect a lot of sites like banks and the like would've avoided it.

Now when it comes to basically any news site, entertainment service, social media, online store, or anything else that makes extra money on ads and harvesting user data? Oh yeah, they'd implement it in a heartbeat.

yukichigai , 9 months ago

Ahh yes, the Perfect One-Pot, Six-Pan, 10-Wok, 25-Baking Sheet Dinner.

yukichigai , 9 months ago

It's fair (from a personal taste standpoint) to say BBT isn't funny; it's not fair to say it's inaccurate. Damn if the higher sciences and a bunch of academia aren't rife with people like that.

Personally I find it amusing all the same, but I get why my Mother the PHD finds it mostly tedious.

yukichigai , 9 months ago

Because this isn't just about "making anything in return" any more than neo-Nazis are booted from platforms "just for having different opinions." More people are using adblockers on YouTube because YouTube isn't simply displaying commercial advertisements, they're pushing "ads" for scams, malware, and all manner of heinous and/or sketchy content. Even separate of that, the frequency of ads and the presence of minutes-long ads you need to manually skip have made watching content difficult and unpleasant, if not unworkable. Adblocker usage is as much about restoring functionality to the site as anything.

All of these issues have been raised with YouTube, but rather than address the complaints by adjusting how ads are selected and served they've decided the only solution is for you to pay them monthly, not just a few bucks but as much as (or more than) the major video streaming services. All of this for content they do not make, at a price point far beyond what they need to be profitable. It's greed for the sake of greed, pure and simple.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

As others have said, Twitch adblocking still works just fine. There are multiple plugins which block their ads, and you can even paste in a few custom filters to uBlock Origin and bypass them.

In other words, it's not inevitable.

Think of it this way: YouTube has to pay people to work on anti-adblocking tech, whereas pissed off nerds with a permanent "fuck you I do what I want" energy will figure out how to defeat those measures for free.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

If it was a few bucks a month, sure. $14 a month? LOL no. Google's one of the richest companies in the world, they don't need the money, much less that much money. It's just greed, pure and simple.

yukichigai , 9 months ago

Job security right there.

yukichigai , 9 months ago

Nope! Worst case the stream quality gets a little lower (some plugins pull from the overlay video that appears at the bottom right) but you don't miss out on the stream at all.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

Specifically it's called Survivorship Bias.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

TBH I didn't know everyone was eligible for the latest booster. My in-laws got it early but they're both at-risk.

I should go do that.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

1st Amendment makes it impossible to criminalize hate speech by itself. Violent hate speech, sure. Calls for racially motivated cleansing, sure. Just saying "<insert race here> is evil and worthless" is unambiguously protected. Unfortunately.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

Holy hell that sounds cursed. How obnoxious are they? Can you share a screenshot?

Next time I'm cursing Spectrum I'll remind myself that they aren't doing that at least.

yukichigai , 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago)

As your typical American I can only read English, what do those "news" ads say, roughly? Tinfoil hat nuttery? Increase your Pen-One-Five size?

Either way that's still pretty bad. And there are video popups? Jeez. I'm guessing you either don't have much choice in ISPs or the other options are even worse somehow. My sympathies. Also thanks for sharing.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

OpenDNS used to do that. Caused a lot of unexpected problems, enough that I stopped using it entirely. I'm still hesitant to even though they've stopped doing it.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

If you're not afraid of Docker you can even spin up your own instance of Invidious. You won't get much in the way of recommendations, but you won't have to worry about the site going down.

Be the frontend you want to see in the world.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

Good news! Apparently there's a way to build Invidious for Podman, though it's not exactly straightforward. That said, there's an open issue to add official documentation for how to do it, so maybe that'll get done. Eventually.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

I have no idea who decided a 90s kid show should have writing that good but they made the right call. Xanatos is one of the best written villains ever.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

As a child, going from the 60s Batman series to that was almost whiplash inducing. I did not expect animated Batman to give me the feels. I did not expect animated Batman to honestly scare the crap out of me.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

Bonus if the VOB is encoded out of order and uses the chapters specified in the IFO to play the episodes in the correct order. CW/WB shows did that a lot for some reason.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

Huh, got me intrigued, gotta say. Any significant differences between mbin and kbin you can point out? I know for me in kbin the Mastodon interactivity doesn't work the best, and finding the context of replies in threads doesn't work when it goes to multi-page.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

Ahh gotcha. So this is the start of the fork. Interesting.

Well I'm definitely gonna keep an eye on it. Think I'll make an account over on your side too just to keep up with my basic plan of diversification.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

Depends on the brand IMO. I actually really like Impossible Meat; to me it tastes like decent quality beef with some really good hard to place seasoning. If it wasn't so damn expensive I'd get it over actual ground beef.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

Let's not forget the Mediterranean cuisine either. Falafel. Hummus. Baba Ganouj, Dolmas... crap I've made myself hungry now.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

Jello is not vegan.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

People were okay with ads, then YouTube started making them obnoxious. Ads every 2 minutes, postroll ads that interfere with autoplay, incredibly long "ads" which mean you need to watch YouTube like a hawk to make sure your 5 minute video hasn't been interrupted by an hour long ad you need to manually skip.

There's a balance that people need to be happy with a service, and if the service doesn't provide that then people will use things like adblockers to get it themselves. It's the same thing that happened with the first "adpocalypse" that brought about most of the big name adblockers in the first place: people were okay with unobtrusive ads, then advertisers started running popups, overlays, autoplay videos, fake system notifications, on and on and on. The advertising became so disruptive people were unable to use sites without adblockers. And so the cycle repeats.

YouTube brought this on themselves.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

That's where I'm at as well. For a long time I didn't bother with adblocking on my TVs and a few other devices because I could tolerate 1-2 ads before every video and the occasional mid-roll ad on the longer videos. Then they started ramping things up; it was when I got 10 ads on a 6 minute video, 7 of which were the same ad that I'd finally had enough. I'm not going back, they can get bent.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

The copy of Invidious I installed on my NAS is even more steps ahead.

I too have an NAS that runs Docker and have been looking for things to run on it. Container++! :D

yukichigai , 10 months ago

"Just because we broke the law doesn't mean you're allowed to question us!"

Good(?) to know that borderline cults are just as entitled no matter what part of the world they're in.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

And for those of you on Android, there's always SmartTubeNext and NewPipe.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

I would absolutely love to see a revitalization on proxy software specifically designed to eliminate ads and tracking. I haven’t looked into this in quite some time but I think we’re crossing into this territory now.

Privoxy is still being actively worked on. Not sure how well it works for YouTube though. I suppose we may see a flurry of activity on that front if they keep pushing this.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

It also hasn't changed much for the porn/adult content side, though a lot of those users are slowly migrating to other places, especially bsky.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

That's me, yeah. Though these days it's handled by sandbox6, who took over for me when RL intruded.

But yeah, hi!

yukichigai , 10 months ago

Hey thanks. Just wanted to make a great game even better.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

That's why you load it with a half cup of sugar.

Or just slam it like you're doing a Jager Bomb

yukichigai , 10 months ago

Adiago's IngenuiTEA is amazing for making loose leaf tea stupidly easy. I was gifted a few and I use at least one daily.

I'm sure someone's made a decent copycat design if you have some aversion to the brand, though I dunno why you would.

yukichigai , 10 months ago

Yeah, this seems like the kind of thing they'd try to push on Business/Pro+ users, where management is willing to fork out absurd amounts of money monthly as long as the per-seat price can be vaguely justified. Doing this for home users would just be dumb. Plenty of people would see the monthly subscription and go "eh I don't need a computer, I can just use my phone."

yukichigai , 10 months ago

So's hemlock, what's your point?

yukichigai , 10 months ago

Cigarettes != tobacco. Tobacco is an ingredient in cigarettes, and not the only one, not by a long shot. Literally dozens of additives are included in cigarettes, many of which are designed to make them more addictive.

Secondly, modern tobacco absolutely was "made" the way it is, first through selective breeding and then genetic modification to (among other things) increase Nicotine content. Much in the same way that modern weed is far stronger than the stuff grown 50 years ago, so too is tobacco.