|
BOOTY-ADE posted:Also use a browser that isn't Chrome, I went back to Firefox when Google talked about disabling adblockers last March  Plus SmartTube Next if I feel like watching vids on my TV.
|
#
¿
Oct 13, 2023 19:30
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 11, 2024 09:16 |
|
|
Still waiting for the hammer to drop but so far no warning message in Firefox or Safari, and my TV app that blocks ads and skips sponsors is still working as normal. As for targeted ad chat, Instagram thinks I'm a goth and is always sending me ads for goth clothes/jewellery, and suggesting videos from a never ending stream of goth girls and miserable looking bands. Yet I really haven't ever searched for any of that stuff, don't follow any of them, haven't liked or bought anything so I don't get why it keeps suggesting it. My pics are just basic street photography, street art, or gig pics. Kinda baffling.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 21, 2023 17:07
|
|
|
The main issue with ads is that they simply take too long, so we should re-introduce blipverts instead: concentrated video bursts that blast 10 minutes of ads to the brain in only 10 seconds. Warning: may cause seizures and/or spontaneous human combustion in 8% of viewers.
|
|
#
¿
Oct 24, 2023 21:35
|
|
|
Seven Force posted:That's so weird, I could've sworn they've done something like that already . The whole reason I jumped ship to Firefox last year was I heard some general Chromium update due in February was setting the stage to do exactly that. If anything I’m surprised it still hasn’t happened yet. Still not had a warning, and SmartTube continued to be fine on my TV, for now. On my laptop I did notice that Opera might be affected (got invalid error messages trying to use a regular YT > mp3 ripper while it still works fine on Firefox) but that’s about it so far.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 11, 2023 17:27
|
|
|
@Salt Fish What was so special about Opera 12 particularly?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. For real, I’m playing it at the moment and it’s both awesome and utterly terrifying as far as glimpses of a possible future go. So many ads you wonder if there’s any room for actual content, trash bags piling up everywhere, toxic water (lmao, I splashed out on real water for some French dude as a flex), almost all animals bar roaches dead, the net is worthless… ..lovely.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 12, 2023 12:36
|
|
|
loving lol. Y'know, I had noticed that pause on loading videos but just put it down to maybe Firefox not being as well coded, or anti ad blocking fuckery, or maybe just my garbage internet connection. But I just installed an agent switcher as suggested and gently caress me, straight to playing near instantly.
|
|
#
¿
Nov 20, 2023 20:41
|
|
|
Guessing some more fuckery is going on as SmartTube's been worse tonight than it has since any of this started. *spams 'Check for Update' option*
|
|
#
¿
Dec 8, 2023 03:20
|
|
|
Some folks at YouTube played Cyberpunk, saw the TV station that's 95% ads and decided that was something to aspire to.
|
|
#
¿
Dec 12, 2023 17:33
|
|
|
|
| # ¿ May 11, 2024 09:16 |
|
|
One thing all this has prompted me to do was think back to when I was growing up and on some occasions, ads were actually memorable and even interesting artistically, regardless of the annoying selling you poo poo aspect (and see also PSAs). I want to say that's not the case these days but the truth is, I've been blocking and avoiding the poo poo out of the loving things for so long now that I have very little clue what they're like these days. Have there been many actually cool/funny/well done ones in the last 10-15 years?
|
|
#
¿
Feb 24, 2024 14:31
|
|