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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 17:46:13 JST nixCraft 🐧

   it started 🤡

   • jinwk00 (jinwk00@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 17:56:55 JST jinwk00

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     @nixCraft Time to go Invidious.

   • Peter Kovář (1div0@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 18:17:58 JST Peter Kovář

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     @nixCraft Today's interweb w/o blocking fucking ads? R U kidding, right? Anyway, FSCK Analphabet Incorporated. Very hard!

   • Atanas Laskov 🏳️‍🌈 (laskov@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 18:43:37 JST Atanas Laskov 🏳️‍🌈

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     @nixCraft Reuters started doing this recently, also ArsTechnica. I can't stand looking at animated ads, it's so ugly and distracting.

   • Fubaroque (fubaroque@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 18:52:01 JST Fubaroque

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     @nixCraft I’ve never seen an ad on YouTube that didn’t annoy me, or that interested me… let alone didn’t use more of my resources than I like. 🤔

     So I’ll just have to do without YouTube until they fix that. Not really a problem. 🤭 🤣

   • Yvo Verschoor (yv@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 19:08:26 JST Yvo Verschoor

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     @nixCraft Hmmm. Also for me tracking is a problem. So, I asked Bard if Youtube Premium is a solution. This was the question and answer:

   • nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 19:12:43 JST nixCraft 🐧

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     • Yvo Verschoor

     @yv Good God 😅

   • wolfytuga (wolfytuga@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 08-Oct-2023 21:21:50 JST wolfytuga

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     Well, if we weren't brutally invaded with Ads which are bigger than the video itself (a small video with 3 minutes becoming a 15 minutes length due to Ads)... It's true some we can skip, but others we are forced to watch them! And it gets pretty ridiculous at work, when we are watching a Tech video from the supplier and then we see Ads to grow muscular mass or bikinis (I don't know what people are watching/searching at work...)!

   • Koli (koli0842@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 04:02:12 JST Koli

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     @nixCraft Well I have a bigger problem with ads being extremely annoying and injected in the middle of 10 minute videos than tracking itself. Sure, privacy is important, but youtube as a platform is barely usable with how offensive ads are placed

   • Emo Vulcan (emovulcan@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 09-Oct-2023 04:41:19 JST Emo Vulcan

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     @nixCraft Debian 12 + Firefox + uBlock Origin here: being noticing glitches at start of some videos for a few weeks.

     Got this banner for first time last Monday, kept showing randomly for a couple days.

     When I got the banner, I just clicked browser's back button then play video again.

     A couple times the script blocked the browser's back button so I had to long-click it and select first page from list.

     Haven't this banner for a few days, maybe uBlock figured out how to block it?

   • UnsavedTrash (unsavedtrash@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Oct-2023 04:55:11 JST UnsavedTrash

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     @nixCraft you can always use invidious to get around it and give google even less data. There are plenty of invidious hosts and even a mobile client for invidious called clipious.

   • GR11M_CR (gr11m_cr@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 15-Oct-2023 18:44:45 JST GR11M_CR

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     @nixCraft I saw YouTube adverts for the first time yesterday, the length and frequency already had me searching for alternatives, despite knowing I just needed to restart Firefox.

   • moashy_mango (moashy_mango@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Oct-2023 00:31:32 JST moashy_mango

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     @nixCraft That won’t happen once I get my hands on YouTube in future, I better start playing the lottery!