Before you say it: I do use Adblock on my computer but sometimes YouTube updates their site to make those not work, and sometimes I browse on my phone which doesn’t have Adblock

  • bennypr0fane@discuss.tchncs.de
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    14 hours ago

    I think UBlock Origin should be awarded a Nobel prize, btw. Also, this reminds me of that Black Mirror episode, where you pay for everything by watching ads, the screens are your apartment walls, and when you close your eyes to the ads, the screen detects it and starts a deafening alarm. This is the future we’re headed for if we don’t start paying for content again, now

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      12 hours ago

      I was about to say. I haven’t seen a YouTube ad in a decade between uBlock and Vanced. The updates are immediate.

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      14 hours ago

      15 million merits. That was a good episode. Always made me wonder what the outside world looked like to force people to ride a stationary bike all day for power generation.

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        In my headcanon the bikes were to keep the humans healthy. For the pleasure of their Simon Cowell leaders

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        13 hours ago

        Just AI data centers everywhere, sucking up all that power and generating the ads in a never-ending oroboros of suckitude.