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Professor Wayne posted:I just started getting pop ups on chrome that I can't close until a timer runs down. Guess I'm moving to Firefox now. Every now and then, I'll watch YouTube on my phone or somewhere else without ad blockers or sponsorskip. Every video is something like 25 percent ads. It's a joke. Vivaldi is a good Chromium based mobile browser with ad blocking already build in. Never seen a YT ad while using it. Firefox mobile was somewhat of a trash fire a year or two ago when I tried it last. Very slow and buggy. Dunno how much it has improved since then.
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Oct 15, 2023 18:51
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goatface posted:The collapse of the online marketing industry would destroy a lot of things. Some of them might even be missed. It would be absolutely apocalyptic. Something like 80% of the modern Internet is financed through ads. We'd all have to go outside or paint an aquarelle or whatever people used to do in the past
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Oct 16, 2023 00:45
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I'm gonna be honest: running something like YT costs a shitton of money and it needs to be financed somehow. Since creating a good public video platform is unrealistic for so many reasons, a monthly subscription fee is probably the best we gonna get. You pay for the labor and traffic costs you generate + some markup and the company doesn't molest you with pointless ads or sells your deepest secrets and desires to tech support scammer or the Trump 2026 campaign. It's an ok deal
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Oct 16, 2023 14:54
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Yeah, I was speaking hypothetically. I have no idea how exactly YT Red works. I don't really care enough about YT to pay for it. I'm kinda fine with how it's implemented in Spotify though. You actually pay the company for the services you use and in exchange they don't do any shady poo poo to you and have an incentive to improve service quality instead of building another skinner box that will make your life worse. (Admittedly, Spotify doesn't really have a lot of data on me that they can sell so I don't worry about it. But with anything related to social media I would probably need some kind of independent auditing that confirms that data isn't sold or used for nefarious purposes like marketing)
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Dropping hard truths itt: The janitors at the TSMC factory or the electrical engineers at Intel or the cafeteria staff at the YT offices are not gonna get up at 6am every day and work their lovely jobs for 8 hours without some compensation(especially not if it's just so people can watch Anime dating game LPs for free) They want some money for the tedious work and none of you nerds click on ads or vote for candidates in the ads. Actually, you are freeloading off bonzi buddy and malware blasted boomers who are hoarding various cheap juicers and herbal supplements in their basement
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Oct 17, 2023 15:42
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If you stay too long on the couch watching Netflix you can get thrombosis and die. It's no joke
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Oct 17, 2023 15:57
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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. Yeah, gently caress that poo poo
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Oct 17, 2023 22:19
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RoboChrist 9000 posted:Finally got locked out on Firefox. Was just clicking the go away buttons. What's the workaround again? The workaround is to read a book or build a squirrel feeder
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Oct 18, 2023 13:48
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Netflix reports a huge bump in subscribers after limiting account sharing and adding ads for lower tier subscriptions and the bump was much bigger than they expected. Their stock is soaring. Prepare for more enshitification everywhere cause enshitification is working out really well for the stock holders
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Oct 19, 2023 09:17
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Rent should be high enough so landlords don't need to live off of tips
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Oct 19, 2023 10:36
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Everyone keeps saying that Google collects a shitton of data and knows everything about you, yet I get nothing but worthless poo poo ads for depression therapy apps and medical deodorant all day. I don't know how they manage to stay in business
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Oct 19, 2023 21:20
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I think they genuinely don't give a poo poo. Someone with an ad blocker is just a useless expense to them that they are probably even happy to avoid The only exception is during the growth/pre-revenue phase or if their business model relies on user generated content/community engagement
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Oct 19, 2023 21:54
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This is so humiliating, it feels like it's more about power and dominance than about profit
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Oct 20, 2023 06:52
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Is there a patent for a feature where it shows you four of your most pathetic Google searches and then you need to circle the most pathetic one with your remote and type "I'm a bad and worthless human being and everyone only pretends to like me out of politeness and I will never feel good again" and if you make a typo you have to start again? Billionaires would pay to place these, cause, let's be honest, once your net worth reaches $10 billion, money doesn't do it anymore but this could
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Oct 20, 2023 09:55
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Strategic Tea posted:If you aren't getting the adblock warning it's because ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE at google has calculated that they'll make more money from not banning you If you got the warning it means their psychological model shows you are a spineless worm and will give in and turn off the blocker Still haven't received anything as of today morning on Vivialdi mobile 
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Oct 21, 2023 18:31
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Xun posted:How do you have your Vivaldi mobile configured? I'm really annoyed at how android Firefox handles tabs but Vivaldis adblock isn't as good as ublock. Nothing special, I just use it straight out of the box. I'm never logged into YT though and usually open links in a new private tab.
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Oct 22, 2023 13:06
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Firefox definitely has its problems. Some sites don't work in it (probably lack of testing with it, since its marketshare is so small) so you do have to keep an alternative browser around anyway. And it's also getting enshittified, just like everything else. Currently it's the completely unsolicited bloatware features they tack on all the time. Like, a couple of weeks ago they added an "auto translate this page" popup every time it detects a non-english language and since I always use it in private mode I gotta click through it three times(for each language I speak) after every time I restart the browser. The design decision behind that is mind boggling and worrisome.
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Nov 12, 2023 13:18
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I hope one day they will do a reboot of Mad Men set in 2023. Millennial Don wears a beanie and a mustache and instead of alcohol he is micro dosing shrooms and doing DMT during bathroom breaks and on one of his trips the machine elves give him the idea of the snarky rear end in a top hat Wendy's Twitter account
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Nov 14, 2023 23:38
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Croccers posted:I want to know, do these Senior Dev people browse the internet themselves without ad blockers?  (Photovoltaic: This is the most expensive mistake people make) I don't have a house or any idea who could possibly benefit from me seeing this crap between news articles.
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Nov 18, 2023 19:13
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Khanstant posted:Yeah for real, letting these companies monopolize what are basically the essential basics of the modern web is a bad move There is already a public youtube and it's called rutube and it's really great. It's the best
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Nov 22, 2023 21:26
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Lol, Youtube has turned off the starting page if you open it in a private tab. You just get a message to turn on cookies and activate some settings to get it back and you have to do that every time you open it
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Dec 9, 2023 13:58
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The General posted:Just wait until somebody does this Sounds like a cool forums feature. Before you can quote a post, chatgpt would give you a short quiz to check if you actually read it. I hope you are seeing this JEFFREY. The incidents of people replying to posts without reading them are through the roof
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dr_rat posted:Is it difficult? Wouldn't any decent screen capture software easily do it? If the video is showing on your screen and the audio is coming out of your speakers, seems it shouldn't exactly be hard. IIRC the image is decrypted on the monitor itself, so Windows could at best only capture an encrypted image. Usually it just shows up us a black blank image in the screen recording. But as many other people itt already said, there many ways to get around the scheme. It's far from perfect and now only serves to deter the least motivated pirates.
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