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1. Kuba Orlik (kuba@toot.kuba-orlik.name)'s status on Monday, 07-Aug-2023 20:56:13 JST Kuba Orlik

   Youtube ads just ruined my rickroll

   • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Monday, 07-Aug-2023 21:22:02 JST Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

     @rysiek @kuba

     The preview appears on my (German) instance - but
     any stronger laws than the EU haven't been implemented yet in UK (even if they are in the pipeline), Vimeo is choosing to pre-empt or goldplate them either for ad revenue or to keep government contracts..

     Every commercial site is just about unusable on mobile devices due to ads (although I can usually get Firefox to run Ublock, this breaks more sites on mobile than on desktop)...

   • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Aug-2023 21:22:03 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

     @vfrmedia @kuba oh interesting. I had no login wall nor age check on it, in a clean incognito browser

     In this case though it seems to me that it's not Vimeo's fault that the UK regulators are forcing them to do this… Whereas YouTub is freely making a decision to enshittify their service.

   • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK (vfrmedia@social.tchncs.de)'s status on Monday, 07-Aug-2023 21:22:04 JST Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

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     • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

     @rysiek @kuba

     ironically the Vimeo link (at least here in UK) requires a login due to "lack of age rating" (despite this being a harmless, well known 1980s pop video) - further reinforcing your point and extending it to *all* corporate video sharing sites!

   • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Monday, 07-Aug-2023 21:22:05 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     @kuba that's it, if rick-rolls stop working YouTube is simply too broken to be useful.

     This video makes some great points on this:
     https://vimeo.com/413240869

   • Kuba Orlik (kuba@toot.kuba-orlik.name)'s status on Monday, 07-Aug-2023 21:22:34 JST Kuba Orlik

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     • Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦
     • Alex@rtnVFRmedia Suffolk UK

     @vfrmedia @rysiek

     Coming in from a Polish IP and this is what I see:

   • Arkadiusz Wieczorek (arek@mastodon.internet-czas-dzialac.pl)'s status on Monday, 07-Aug-2023 21:55:54 JST Arkadiusz Wieczorek

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     @kuba go with Invidious!