Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube

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Do you agree?
	Yes, you are hurting the content creator's� feelings and future
	No, youtube is infringing on my rights with anti-ad blocker ads
	Just click out and suck it up OP lmfao
	I watch videos on dailymotion instead
	Goku using incognito mode

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Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

temple posted:

If you would have told 90s me that I'd have the world's music at my fingertips, in exchange for seeing ads, I would have clicked my heels with joy.

Yup, kids are pretty loving dumb.

# ¿ Oct 19, 2023 04:53

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 15:57

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

This is what I was listening to at age 14:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUNKK5tVupk

# ¿ Oct 19, 2023 04:59

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

The only thing I make a profit on is my emerald selling division. My mining equipment purchasing arm is WAY in the red!

# ¿ Oct 19, 2023 21:41

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Khanstant posted:

Honestly if you own a TV these days I assume you're some kind of couch potato

Or a melee player.

# ¿ Oct 21, 2023 20:59

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Its pretty loving funny that they can detect the ad-blocker and then popup a notice with text and images and poo poo, but they can't just put an advertisement in that same space because ad blockers are too good.

# ¿ Oct 27, 2023 23:08

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Tarkus posted:

What was the name of that software that allowed you to download youtube videos again? I'd like to get something, even if it's a paid thing, but I need something that's not malware and I'm not confident in what I've seen through the search.

That's why you run it on a dedicated linux VM sandbox and then mount the downloads folder on a passthrough block device to your multimedia PC.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2023 04:33

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

I'm just kidding.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2023 04:34

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Opera 12 was the greatest browser to ever exist. Then they fired all the developers, threw their rendering engine in the trash and forked chromium, and its been poo poo ever since.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2023 08:01

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Sentinel Red posted:

@Salt Fish What was so special about Opera 12 particularly?

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.

It was the last release with presto just prior to all their developers quitting and the company being sold to a Chinese company. They did an IPO in like 2004 and putting their best product into the meat grinder was an important part of that process leading up to selling.

# ¿ Nov 12, 2023 15:48

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Zero VGS posted:

I mean like an option to check on your own end, every 15 minutes or so. Counting from the second you enable it, so everyone isn't doing a request at the same moment in time.

Ublock origin autoupdates filter lists every hour by default, but you might have to relaunch your browser and then wait for a cooldown timer:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Advanced-settings
ctrl+f for update in this settings list to the options you can set.

edit: yeah looks like the default is to not interupt the plugin when an update takes place, so you have to enable/disable it or reset your browser:

"extensionUpdateForceReload
Default: false.

uBO 1.23.0 and above.

If set to true, restores update behavior from before 1.22.3b ("Prevent uBO from being reloaded mid-session "), the extension will unconditionally reload when an update is available; otherwise, the extension will reload only when being explicitly disabled then enabled, or when the browser is restarted."

Salt Fish fucked around with this message at 07:45 on Nov 16, 2023

# ¿ Nov 16, 2023 07:43

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Tunicate posted:

fun fact you cannot cast shorts to your TV, they're just arbitrarily less useful.

They don't have a volume slider unlike a normal video. They had to write extra lines of code to get rid of the volume slider, I'm 100% sure that was someone's job for 20-40 hours. Writing out the ability to change volume and testing it.

# ¿ Nov 20, 2023 02:24

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Grab Im Moor posted:

Did that happen to anyone else?

lol

# ¿ Dec 8, 2023 18:56

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

First of May posted:

I just pay for YouTube Premium since I watch it more than any other streaming platform, and I like that the creators of the videos I watch get paid extra out of my subscription fee.

I also use SponsorBlock, which is a user-contributed database of timestamps that will automatically skip the in-video sponsor segments. The stats say I've saved about 48 hours of time just from skipped segments.

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# ¿ Dec 12, 2023 18:44

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# ¿ May 11, 2024 15:57

Salt Fish: Sep 11, 2003; Cybernetic Crumb

Khanstant posted:

It's also helpful for music videos and other things with skits or whatever intro and you just wanna skip right to the good parts.

Hey speaking of have you ever seen the music video for MC Hammer's Too Legit to Quit?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HFCv86Olk8E

# ¿ Feb 22, 2024 06:31

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