doublepepperoni

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[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You only had to do that once? In the initial phase I just couldn't get rid of the pop-ups for longer than one session

 

I started getting the dreaded anti-adblock pop-ups on Youtube when they started ramping up their efforts a month or so back, and I initially went through the whole rigamarole: First it was just the pop-up, then it was the pop-up with the timer, then the 3-video countdown finally leading to the video player being disabled outright.

Throughout all of this I did the recommended Purging All Caches -> Update Now routine on the Ublock Dashboard at least once a day to keep the pop-ups away, but when it got to the player getting blocked it didn't seem to work anymore. Since I'm on Firefox, I experimented using Containers and found that I could just log in to my YT account on a different container to keep using Youtube until that container started getting blocked.

In the past few weeks I've noticed no issues though apart from having the video player blocked once, which was fixed by purging all caches and updating and I almost forgot about the whole anti-adblock thing altogether. It does seem like YT pages are loading slightly slower than they used to though.

Are you still having issues with Ublock on Youtube or were you even affected at all?

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What was the last time?

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

They also prohibited a demonstration by the progressive Jewish group Jüdische Stimme.

Explaining their reasoning on the Jüdische Stimme protest, the police told The New York Times that the demonstration was “explicitly open to participants of Palestinian origin,” and said organizers coordinated with protesters whose demonstrations were banned over concerns about antisemitic incitement.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

Let's not forget the MO Discs from Resident Evil and MGS

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 26 points 10 months ago (6 children)

I'm assuming this will escalate to some insanely locked down DRM scheme. Guess I'll enjoy uBlock, ReVanced and yt-dlp while I can

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It really annoys me when I see people on bicycles or e-scooters just browsing Twitter or whatever on their phones. At least people looking at their phones in cars have a steel box around them to protect them from their stupidity

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 4 points 10 months ago

I keep expecting blurry images of protestors or human shaped blobs huddling behind cover with some kind of crosshair over them

PLEASE CLICK ON ALL SQUARES WITH ~~ENEMY COMBATANTS~~ ~~TARGETS~~ PERSONS

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 7 points 10 months ago

Cringe

spoiler

I've found it to be a very useful word though

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I had it pretty bad for several days, having to purge the cache several times but I saw no pop-ups yesterday or the day before that. Hoping that's still the case today

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (6 children)

In Europe it's the Autumn of Capitalism

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 1 points 11 months ago

Oh, definitely but it's shockingly bad when using YT without logging in

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Yeah, as good as Youtube's algorithms are at pushing hardcore right-wing content on completely fresh accounts in like 3 clicks, my accounts have been around for so long that my recommends tend to be on the money most of the time.

I discover multiple new channels each month from my recommends whereas 10 years ago I'd occasionally check a channel that a friend recommended or was embedded on a forum post

 

When I want to type a special non-English character like Ø, on my Android phone I simply long press on "o" on the keyboard and it brings up every variation of the letter o you could think of.

On Windows, the best you get is "please memorise this giant list of four number codes". If I'm going to have to google the code I'm probably just going to copy the letter and paste it into whatever I'm writing.

Why not add them to the damn emoji menu (Windows key + .)

 

Can't wait until Google flips them on globally for all users doomer

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