Twitter C/D

The thing about those ads is that no ad has ever influenced me to buy an IBM or Apple, but I've definitely impulse-purchased cool, dumb gadgets that have shown up in my social media feeds.

Ideally Musk and Trump will both just die and solve a bunch of problems big and small at once.

good piece https://maxread.substack.com/p/context-collapse-collapse

Being reported that, go figure, Yaccarino's industry pals are strongly suggesting she jump ship.

https://www.axios.com/2023/11/20/linda-yaccarino-elon-musk-advertising-resign-x-twitter

urged her to leave "before her reputation is damaged."

lol okay

perfect for marketers to tell the media that theyve reached out to their friend

Is there a chance that Linda Yaccarino is not real? That she's some sort of AI experiment?

Christ that would definitely explain her bizarrely on-point constant chirpy corpspeak.

A cynical inroad.
Any ironical cad,
Any racial id con.
...Coi (sic) Cali Ayn Rand?

Cloaca Dairy Inn!

Checks out.

my adblocker seems to be not working on Twitter today, hopefully this'll correct itself quickly

Same

Don't know about twitter, but my Adblock app started failing to block youtube ads recently. So I changed to UBlock which now works fine.

I use ublock on Firefox, I think the forces of darkness are conspiring

youtube refused to show me videos on chrome with ublock demande that i turn it off, so i switched to firefox with ublock which worked for a while but then youtube refused again, so i switched to brave which has a built in adblocker and so far thats working

yeah youtube is infuriating, they're very good about sniffing for any adblockers now which makes using youtube for anything long impossible. I'm not fucking paying for youtube.

Yeah I noticed YouTube being dickish lately, thanks for the tip

It's bad enough when the random history vids have adverts every 5 minutes

youtube with ads is horrific

its interesting that adblockers work at all on youtube youd think that they could come up with a scheme where that wasnt so but maybe its just not worth their while

They have to encode the ads into the video streams on the fly so there wasn’t a separate request for your browser to key on

youtube is absolutely worth paying for if you have kids and/or ever watch youtube on something other than a computer with an ad blocker

what about just making the rest of the video unavailable until the length of the ad has elapsed so even if its blocked you still have to wait just to be annoying

i've been thinking about getting the sub that includes youtube music

yeah i would prob pay for it if they foiled all my blocking schemes (switching browsers)

Both Firefox and Chrome UBlock work on youtube, you just need to keep your browser versions and extension/add-ons updated.

i read somewhere that youtube is relying on fingerprinting too so you need to use a browser that has anti-fingerprinting built in like firefox or brave

youtube stopped threatening me tho so i'm still just using chrome/ublock

although relying on chrome has a whiff of 'the masters tools will never dismantle the masters house' haha

im rolling with brave until it feels safe

Both Firefox and Chrome UBlock work on youtube, you just need to keep your browser versions and extension/add-ons updated.

― citation needed (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, November 21, 2023 10:48 AM (three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

seems like this is prob only true once ublock has been updated to thwart youtubes latest attack, im not trying to get in some sort of war here im just trying to watch videos (about wars)

My YouTube ish is only on the TV, yeah

there was something yesterday about a 5s delay that they (youtube) are just adding to firefox to make it seem less good.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/techandscience/youtubes-reportedly-taking-longer-to-load-if-youre-not-using-chrome/ar-AA1kfSwZ

google should really not be allowed to have its own browser

that seems like a cool thing to do from an antitrust perspective

yeahp

It honestly blows my mind sometimes when I remember the era of Google being the quick unfussy new kids on the block

their long since dropped "dont be evil" slogan was referring specifically to the sort of dark patterns lock in various manipulations etc which litter their products now

that seems like a cool thing to do from an antitrust perspective

lol they're getting around to it I think.

"On October 19, 2023, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that proposes to reclassify broadband internet access service (BIAS) as a Title II common carrier service and reinstate net neutrality rules."

i don’t have a google account at all and i have declined all cookies which makes my youtube recommendations purely based on whatever video is playing right then, which is pretty rad actually

I had youtube ads for the first time in forever today. I downloaded the development build of ublock origin and they're gone.

rip #sliving no more

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F_gYn0ebAAAPG41?format=jpg&name=900x900

The sliving end

The Youtube ads thing is something they've built, or are bulding, into the whole Chromium base so it'll affect everything except... I think FF and Opera?

I weirdly have one very old youtube account from way back when they started, that never seemeed to get bothered by the adblock stuff. I have 2 "profiles" for youtube on my Google account (I dont know quite how it happened). The newer one throws a fit if I have Adblock on, the older one never does.

All this goes out the window if using YT on like a SmartTV of course so blech. I am so heavily used to YT without any ads I ended up signing up for the Premium trial, I dont know if I'll keep it up though, its really expensive!

xps an FCC NPRM usually takes around a year or two to become a real thing, fwiw

Opera is Chromium (and Vivaldi is too). Safari is the other non-Chromium browser.

If you have a VPN you can set it to a country like Moldova that YouTube serves no ads to. On my iPhone I've just up a Shortcut automation that turns on the VPN automatically when I open YouTube and turns it off again when I close it.

I pay $1 a month for Youtube Premium via Argentina (and $5 a month for a Adobe CC Suite via Turkey), it was easier than figuring out how to use a VPN with Apple TV at work.

Do you need Argentinian and Turkish credit cards to do that?

xp

just download youtube revanced for free from github for ad-free youtube. There are other versions floating about that are apparently the work of Russian hackers rammed with malware. I accidentally downloaded one and thankfully there are no paypal/bank details on the tablet I did it on. Annoyingly the hacker version worked perfectly! Revanced sometimes takes 3 or 4 attempts to open it, and is a work in progress but once you get it running it works perfectly.

It's only an issue for me on my smart TV which seems more or less unhackable

Having said that, the distribution of ads is very random. Can watch whole movies ad free. The Fall of Civilisations podcasts which are mostly 2 hours plus have a very few well spaced out ad breaks. Then I'll try watching some old documentary that's been uploaded probably illegal and there'll be ads literally every five minutes - I just give up on those, obv

xxp - no, I just put in an Argentinian address I looked up online for Youtube. Visa stopped working but Mastercard is still fine. With Adobe I had to VPN into Turkey to sign up but used my regular address when paying. Once signup was complete it doesn't seem to care where I log in to the Adobe site or connect through the Adobe download app.