YouTube’s Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge::The video platform now requires users to disable their ad blockers with an immovable pop-up.
YouTube’s Ad Blocker Crackdown Is Getting Harder to Dodge::The video platform now requires users to disable their ad blockers with an immovable pop-up.
That’s because they’re targeting Desktop users only, I think and I hate to say it, we’ll inevitably face 3 choices in the future
A. Watch YT with all it’s ads B. Quit using YT C. Pay for premium
All these awesome privacy frontends that we use will be killed, just like Libreddit & Teddit, and ads on YT will be unbearable, long, repetitive, that even non techies will start thinking of ways to avoid them…
The only effective solution I see, is that content creators have the balls to selfhost their content using Peertube, or migrate to Rumble or odysee…
Many content creators like LTT straight out refused to offer another way to view their content, there is no reason why anyone wouldn’t want to Sync their content to other platform, unless they care that much about that ad revenue, which shows they support this business model
sorry about the grammar, slept for 2 hours…
LTT is happy to let you pay for their mediocre content plus mediocre extra behind the scenes special boi crap on Floatplane
They charge for FP ??! So these people on the podcast are paying to comment ! I didn’t know that…
hmmm, that’s fine I’m not against content creators creating ways to monetize, I’m against supporting the ad business model and gaslighting people into believing “it’s working”…
As for the content quality, I only watch LTT to see what crazy ideas and experiments they come up with, I never learned anything tho, because they don’t show you how they did it, Linus just says we’re going to build a server, and boom, it’s already done… ( they do it off camera ), I mean like details, installing the distro, and how to navigate it… Etc ( his team does it for him )
You are looking for niche content. The last place to search for that would be a big YT channel since their videos are tailored for the general audience. I don’t know what you expected lol
Well, don’t you think skipping major steps ( mind you ) renders the entire process irreproducible, or prone to error and failure ?
a Blog post would be appreciated, say : hey we skipped this ( very technical and confusing ) step, here’s the boring blog, enjoy…
I’m just saying, their content is mostly entertaining, not educational, that’s how I find it personally.
It’s all about how many people these platforms have to convince them to stop using youtube I guess…
Libreddit was killed? How am I still using it?
From their Github
⚠️Why do I get TOO MANY REQUESTS errors? ⚠️ As of July 12th, 2023, Libreddit is currently not operational as Reddit’s API changes, that were designed to kill third-party apps and content scrapers who don’t pay large fees, went into effect. Read the full announcement here. One of the project maintainers is working towards keeping this project alive to some extent: #836
Some instances might still be operational, but limited…
I deleted my Reddit accounts, once Infinity stopped working, and I open reddit links in Tor ( same with Tiktok and others ), they’re not gonna have it their way
Hmm, well my personal instance works fine and has for months, no limitations that I’ve encountered. Guess I’m just lucky
Yea you’re, I tried some instances they work for a while and then they give that message : too many requests
what happened to Reddit is just disgusting, they broke the law and they’re roaming free…
I wonder if it impacts public instances because it’s rate-limiting the requests, where it’s just me on my private instance so it’s not hitting the limit.
If so then it’s pretty easy to spin one up in docker and get around the issue.
Of course leaving reddit entirely is always better.
Also I’m not tuned in – what laws did they break?
Maybe, but I don’t wanna try anymore, you could patch Infinity with Revanced patches and keep using it too, but I dont wanna do that either…
Yeah, I gave up…
I think it’s called CCPA ( a US data law ), Reddit violated that law, when they restored users’ content, im guessing this law guarantees the right to be erased… ( US data laws sound good on paper, but they never work in reality 😂 )
Also they can’t just go to their terms of service and change stuff based on the situation, they even tried to stretch the meaning of some clauses in their TOS just so they can cover it up, it’s all in r/announcements, just scroll back to June 2023