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    367 days ago

    It wouldn’t be so bad if they actually had ad breaks instead of stopping my video mid sente… SHAVE YOUR BALLS WITH MANSCAPE… nce

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      97 days ago

      Speaking of which, anyone notice the hellishly annoying full-screen shitty mobile games Netflix keeps front-paging?

      Seriously considering just giving up on the service and going entirely to piracy.

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    Yeah, it’s bad…… I didn’t feel like login into my premium account the other day and it was kinda much…….

    I am hoping we get a Democrat to in office this year. With the balls(Well she technically does not have balls; but you get my drift) to break some FUCKING monopolies up. We need to break up Ma Bell again

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      57 days ago

      Harris is married to the brother of an Uber executive. If you were hoping for a trust-buster, you picked the wrong candidate. Those $500k/plate fundraising dinners she hosts are coming entirely out of the Silicon Valley mega-millionaire bracket.

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          46 days ago

          A $500k/plate dinner for a guy with $1B feels a bit like a $500/plate dinner for a guy with $1M.

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              86 days ago

              what would you serve on this plate

              A piece of paper with only a heading: “Insert lobby request here:”

              And a footer: “Your business is important to us, thanks for supporting Democracy™”

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      26 days ago

      I was casting a video to my shield from my phone and ended up needing to pause for a phone call during an ad roll. Pausing worked fine but the play button on my phone was completely unresponsive after. Thankfully the shield remote still worked, but clearly play/pause during ads is handled differently than during normal videos and something is broken.

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    127 days ago

    Honestly looking at the article this seems way less intrusive than pre-roll and mid-roll video ads. If this was to replace them I’d be ok with that. But this is Google so of course it’s just going to be as well as, so my adblocker is staying on for as long as it works

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      117 days ago

      I’m just tired of my electronics doing “extra”. I want to pause the video/player, I don’t want that to activate other activities for my device to perform…I just want to pause the fucking video. They’re all guilty of this though, either they show ads or screenshots of what they want you to watch next. I can’t even pause a video anymore to look at something or show something. The amount of times I’ve paused to have a discussion and the distracting shit plays in the background annoyed me to the point I no longer use the “smart tv” to watch anything and only use the tv hooked up to the comp so I can actually control and have a pleasant viewing experience.

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    does anyone here use librewolf? for the past month or so YouTube has been completely fucked there. constantly freezing, sometimes pic only, sometimes fully as if my internet is slow, which it isn’t.

    I’m suspecting they’re purposely fucking it for non chromium browsers but haven’t seen much complaining about it. i go back to Vivaldi for YouTube for now which works perfectly but soon enough the ublock will stop working.

    does it happen to anyone? is it non chromiums? is it librewolf? is it just mine?

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      37 days ago

      Yes. Noticed yesterday. I was even logged in to a friend’s YouTube Premium account. Loaded like I have slow internet.

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      Yep, when ive resorted to yt directly on librewolf it usually freezes/buffers and tab needs refreshing every 5-10mins or so of vid. Sometimes it’s ok. Pretty inconsistent. I use ublock and sponsor block with librewolf . Usually i use invidious or yattee, Which have their own issues also playing whackamole with the giant

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      37 days ago

      I’m using LibreWolf with uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger and NoScript where I selectively allow scripts and I never got an ad served on YT

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          People keep saying this but test, it catches few things uBlock doesn’t and it allows you to control access level for these items as needed.

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        27 days ago

        i don’t get ad served either, that wasn’t my question… but maybe it’s the script thing, i don’t have script blockers.

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    Any investors question would be, why did this take Google Youtube so long to implement such a feature, of course this is why the ads are being crammed like this on Smart TVs.

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    16 days ago

    This is actually pretty nice.

    It’s much better compared then actually forcing you to watch something.

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      127 days ago

      that is actually a really hot take but also really fucking stupid

      pirate everything + get an adblocker

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          Merch is just generating plastic trash.

          Just give the person cash money that’s how you properly support somebody for their labour.

          How many times will you wear that shiti hoodie?