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Rubberduke posted:I'd rather continue watching Salvia Erik do hilarious NordVPN ads than any of that other poo poo Youtube would throw at me. I got sick of them so I block those too. I might not have bothered with sponsor block had there been more than like 10 sponsors. Raycon, Hello Fresh, Squarespace, Raid Shadow Legends, Nord VPN, Surf Shark, Skillshare, I'm sure I'm missing some but you get the point.
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hbag posted:spotify also don't pay their artists poo poo so just use bandcamp and plexamp Don't worry they gave Joe Rogan a bunch of money.
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I think I deserve good products sold to me at a reasonable prices. Youtube is not. Youtube is a glorified file host who has near zero customer service, pushes right wing poo poo/other garbage (it hasn't done it in awhile for me guess I told it to not recommend enough), doesn't moderate ads much. They can gently caress off. Anyone defending them can also gently caress off. Gee golly turns out monopolies are bad. Who knew? Yes yes I know people love using the narrowest definition of monopoly possible so that they don't have to admit to themselves things are as poo poo as they are. Anyway I'm going to block ads, use sponsor block, use enhancer for youtube and maybe use dearrow. Not sure about dearrow yet but it's kind of neat changes thumbnails to be less bold font. gently caress ads, I don't ever want to see them they are complete and utter garbage.
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Caesar Saladin posted:i like watching funny videos on youtube, you should see the cat clips they've got on there, they're amazing I've detected an adblocker you aren't allowed to read my posts if you are blocking my ads.
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PhazonLink posted:i love how regressives and other dumb freeze peaches people scream about censorship, yet here we are with users choosing to self censor with weird code speak like that "red" or unlive. It's only censorship if it's preventing them from saying slurs.
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Threaten me why don't youtube? Say you're going to block me after 3 videos? Eh EH? WELL I'M BACK USING FIREFOX NOW instead of Vivaldi (chromium based browser) that'll show you whose boss. ME I'm the boss.
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Pladdicus posted:pretty sure this is a joke but, is it a joke? i could really use that I've got good news. I'm not sure they would qualify as a "robot" but...
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Tunicate posted:My new girlfriend as a service, Stalkr I wish to invest in your app *throws cash at Tunicate*. I'm going to be so rich.
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Oct 18, 2023 18:31
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The General posted:Personally, because I watch like 10 hours of youtube a day and don't mind paying for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Actually I am freeloading off a former friends family account. Haven't spoken to the guy in years. Eventually he's bound to get more friends and kick me off. If he does, I'll pay again. Why would you admit to this? Ad blockers are dirt easy to use and yet you're like  I'm the smart one for deciding not to use them.
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Oct 19, 2023 21:51
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The General posted:Easily more than 10+ years ago. Probably 15+ years ago. Thanks for telling us the lies/half truths you use to justify to yourself and others your selfish short sighted laziness. Ohhhhh this garbage hosting service is worth it to me! I'm really being a savvy consumer! Ad blockers are really hard.
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Oct 19, 2023 22:29
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The General posted:Which part am I lying about?? Lol.
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The General posted:I also pay for streaming services to watch shows I like https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=4042532 Lol.
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hbag posted:people use edge? Works fine for downloading another browser.
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I think people who use command line stuff regularly needs to understand that they are weirdo freaks who don't realize how poo poo command line stuff is. Well they don't need to understand that they just should shut the gently caress up and not suggest command line solutions to the majority of people when other options exist. Yep.
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Edmund Sparkler posted:I understand how to use the command line and understand it. I just think it's a pain in the rear end. Correct.
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Bertha the Toaster posted:If you're too stupid to type "yt-dlp" and past in the link of the video you want downloaded, you don't deserve to download the thing. gently caress, I'm fairly certain that if you drag the link of a video onto the yt-dlp exe it'll just download the thing without any typing. I think realizing command line is poo poo and picking an option that is less poo poo makes me more intelligent than somebody who smugly defends their bad decision as somehow the smart thing to do. I also don't like Linux.
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dervival posted:some people do download videos because their internet is unreliable and YT flips the gently caress out when your connection cuts out, maybe think about that while gargling on satya/cook's balls next time What? So does not having reliable internet make you incapable of reading/understanding my post? Seems that way. There are other downloaders that don't require command line interaction. That being said I think it's clear that if you don't have a stable internet connection it makes you less than human and it should be pointed out by all us cool broadband internet havers. Thank you Comcast for making me human!!!!!!! You're the best. I think we can all agree Comcast is a great company. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 17:27 on Oct 29, 2023 |
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hot date tonight! posted:Youtube-dl is probably the backend for all the other tools you use. You'll never get a gui that covers all the options youtube-dlp has. It's a great tool and it works on pretty much every site with audio or video, it reaches far beyond youtube. Why would you think anybody would give any shits what the backend is? They care about what they have to interact with. So yeah command line sucks and while you're free to use it, it's a bad thing to suggest unless you're on like a Linux forum or other options manage to be much worse. I'll follow a tutorial to do something once or rarely but knowing it involves command line stuff will make me less thrilled by the process. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 17:50 on Oct 29, 2023 |
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Floodixor posted:I will say that Cyberpunk 2077 gets the presentation of the future right in that when you're in the city, you're getting ads (fake ones, though) blasted at you from everywhere. A cacophony of noise. It's quite immersive and depressing. Awful those should be ads for real products.
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Floodixor posted:In all honesty the studio could have probably made a ton of bones doing that, but they wouldn't fit the future aesthetic. But I'm sure all the slick marketing gurus would just work their dumb products with some future slang and call it a day. But in the end, I'm glad they didn't make that design choice. Yeah aesthetic doesn't equal money and gamers will eat whatever slop is served to them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVTS3fyoAEQ is probably the best thing to ever come from a triple A game. Well not the game the anime based on the game. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 05:52 on Nov 12, 2023 |
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Croccers posted:Hell, I remember why I switched from Firefox to Chrome all those long long years ago. Firefox full screen sometimes decides I want the bottom left tooltip url thing on top of the video. I do not. I'm pretty sure this was the reason I switched from firefox the last time, so it's been an issue for awhile. I could disable it but it seems like a bother for something that should have been fixed 5 years a go or whenever the last time I used firefox as my main browser.
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hot date tonight! posted:Yeah I understand other people aren't willing to jump through hoops to avoid ads, every has a different threshold and that's cool. I'm willing to go full richard stallman to never see an ad. No it loving isn't cool. It isn't cool that we as a society accept the stupidest shittiest humans or pretend like they aren't the stupidest shittiest humans.
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emSparkly posted:Don't sign your posts Excuse me but I use an adblocker which makes me better than those who do not.
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Khanstant posted:Seems like it'd be better to channel that hate at companies and advertisers. If people are too afraid of being exiled once people find out they make ads, then they might stop serving them to us. I think there's plenty of hate to go around.
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So what you're saying is you don't want me to use gmail google? Of course I'm still going to because changing my accounts seems like a huge chore but it's becoming more and more tempting. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 21:41 on Nov 18, 2023 |
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JNCO BILOBA posted:If that's the case, I'll be sad to lose Arc but Firefox and others based on it should be fine so long as I don't lose my mouse/swipe gestures. Ads are never the way. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gesturefy/
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I think we can agree that youtube should also charge youtubers hosting fees.
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StrangersInTheNight posted:this would probably be their salty response, yes, but it's a bluff becase they also know the moment they did this the creators would drop away to tiktok and never come back I'd like to see them try as I'm not sure it's possible for one of the modern social media behemoths to actually fall. Twitter, youtube, facebook, are here to stay, well maybe not facebook.
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ikanreed posted:Twitter is at least dying. Not as fast as you'd expect a site devoted to Nazism to die, but user numbers just keep falling month over month Dying is not dead and there's a lot of blood to lose before it dies. Elon will keep hacking away so it might happen.
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Random Stranger posted:As annoying as it can be when people try to use AI pics for anything beyond shitposting, the current use of AI text is a thousand times worse. AI poo poo images are mainly replacing stock photos and getting dumped on when people try to use it elsewhere; AI text is infecting and poisoning everything, flooding the already toxic swamp of SEO and turning the world into meaningless glop. It's the gray goo scenario except it's devouring information instead of buildings. SEO or search engine optimization is a very important for all small businesses. Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is a crucial aspect of digital marketing to enhance visibility and drive organic traffic to your website. As far as SEO goes? Yeah I don't think it matters. Well it does matter in that it makes it easier and cheaper so more will be generated.
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AutismVaccine posted:I had for the first time a chair ad appear in the video list on the right side. Just Another Lurker posted:No uBlock Origin with your FF... or are you on mobile? *sighs* Every time a company rolls something out to a group of people you get people not in that group going "eh what are you talking about everything's fine maybe it's your fault? Have you tried x?" Anyway yeah I noticed getting side bar ads once or twice today too.
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PhazonLink posted:how the hell are you guys still get ad leaks? i dont get them and I have autoupdate disabled for ublock? Updates take time to make, and/or you aren't in the testing group.
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TACD posted:Get on https://mynoise.net my dude Not a single industrial fan? Not even like a normal fan? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NDpshBMKAPg. Now that's the stuff. I don't have a tinnitus problem but I do almost always have a fan on.
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Stealing poo poo is easy and the people who are like "ohhhh it's too difficult" are very dumb. I put them above the people who refuse to use ad block but way below what qualifies as human.
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Tunicate posted:How about people who screen recors a chiclet sized video of an-already pirated series (including the mouse and play bars), systematically grabbing every episode and uploading it? loving jackasses crop your god drat videos you ripped from the web you worthless shits. I like to picture and picture (is it picture and picture if it's on a computer? Whatever I have video playing in a window) and do not appreciate the black bars. Anyway I do not get people who go through the trouble/risk to upload to like usenet for it to not be properly cropped/subbed. I've had Sonarr/plex/nas/usenet etc. setup for awhile now it's the way to go if you're tech savvy enough to set it up if you aren't just use bittorrent and a vpn. Duck and Cover fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Apr 17, 2024 |
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Zero VGS posted:Public trackers like that will sometimes generate nastygrams from your ISP (if you're on some popular new thing, the studio will know about the torrent and make the ISP snitch, as an IT person I had to send a company-wide email asking employees not to loving torrent Avengers Endgame on our office wifi), but those warnings are basically toilet paper until you get like 6, then they might shitcan your account. It takes some effort to pull that off. They've been known to send people emails for torrenting professional porn which is funny if it's a kid doing it and their mom gets an email from Xfinity about Anal Destroyers XVII. Then there's private trackers for all kinds of things, but they're all very strict Don't Talk About Fight Club etc, etc to keep studio agents from infiltrating. So god drat stupid because those agents know drat well what the private trackers are. It's all just  .
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susan b buffering posted:When private trackers get targeted it's to raid the people running it. Nobody was sniffing oink traffic to send DMCA notices lol. Yeah they don't get raided not through the super duper secret club but through not being Piratebay/supernova. So the whole shhhhh IT'S A SECRET climbing of the tracker exclusivity pyramid has always been . I could be convinced that some niche private trackers have use, but for pretty much anything else? Yeah just use piratebay.
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I don't think you should worse things to people when better things exist just because you're use to the worse thing.Zero VGS posted:It's like, when cops were busting us gays, they wouldn't focus on setting up elaborate prostitution stings if they could just catch people in public restrooms and parks. If there's more than enough reckless people to keep you busy and you can catch them dead to rights, why bother with the paranoid ones? Yeah Sonarr can use bittorrent. BitTorrent is like a gathering of Orks in the midst of a Waaagh! Each Ork brings their own bits and bobs of dakka and gubbins, and they toss them into a massive pile in the center of their camp. From this scrap heap, Meks and Weirdboyz cobble together makeshift weapons and contraptions, with each Ork grabbing whatever they need to join the fight. It's a chaotic but collaborative process, with every Ork contributing to the arsenal and everyone benefiting from the shared loot. Now, Usenet is akin to a well-organized Grot-run workshop deep within the heart of an Ork stronghold. Inside, a cunning Runtherd oversees a meticulous inventory of all the teef, scrap, and shiny bitz collected by the Grots. When an Ork wants a new shoota or choppa, they place their order with the Runtherd, who then delegates the task to the Grots to gather the necessary materials and assemble the requested item. It's a structured and efficient system, ensuring that every Ork gets exactly what they need for battle. So, BitTorrent is like the raucous gathering of Orks tossing scrap together to create weapons and gear for the Waaagh!, while Usenet is like the organized workshop where Grots diligently assemble custom-made weapons for their Ork overlords. Both approaches result in an arsenal of dakka, but they cater to different preferences — the rowdy and collaborative spirit of the Orks or the structured efficiency of Grot labor.
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Klyith posted:The exciting new tech for piracy is Usenet, the tech that's older than anyone ITT. It's interesting because normally things get shittier.
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Time_pants posted:More like newer things are shittier than the things they were meant to replace. Usenet was replaced by kazaa for good reasons. Things don't generally just get replaced by a worse version they get replaced by a better (at least in some ways) version that is then made worse as they try to make money from it.
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