At that point, retro gaming is where it’s at, or piracy, or board games, basically ANYTHING else is better than that.
Sadly it does feel we are very close to this… 😢
Black Mirror
Which episode was this?
Think it’s Fifteen Million Merits
I’ll quit using anything that does that.
I don’t know if this is real but if it is, this method of forced watching something you are not interested in guarantees to create negative emotions towards that brand.
Yeah but the C suite is so far removed from reality they don’t know, or don’t care to know about it. It’s not like you have much of a choice anyhow. They’ve bought up the competition, drove out the mom and pop shops. Their mentality is “yeah, but what are you gonna do about it?”
Well why are they paying for ads if there’s no competition
Probably to burn money i guess
That’s how they get all of the Luigi’s.
I would just stop using whatever the service is. For as long as I can that is. Not long before our new dictatorship might force us to watch ads for crucial services.
The amount of times I’ve been watching youtube, it queueing up ads, and me just pressing the home button to switch to newpipe is immeasurable
Why arent you blocking ads?
Revanced is a game changer
Better than AdGuard, Ublock and all those?
Those don’t block ads from same domain, network wide. Dns adblock will block 90%+.
Device specific for ublock origin and adguard plugins, can’t put that on a Nintendo switch.
I can’t live without adblock and unhook lol, but my phone seems too old and shitty to run the web version of youtube without draining battery.
Is it time to put googly eyes on my testicles again? Do I have permission?
You take them off?
Yes
Nope. Any service that would ever do that is instantly a no-go. I’d stop using a smartphone before I’d put up with that.
This is where you write a companion app to load the ad in a separate instance while feeding it false camera input data and continue watching in peace.
I love that idea
Kenneth Lamar Noid proved that violence is an effective means of stopping advertisements
Well, that’s certainly one way to reduce our screen time. I’ve got shelves of neglected books that need attention.
As I have been transitioning more and more of my stuff to FOSS, it has become clear that the infrastructure to push shit on you is a huge problem in itself, even if you block and avoid it all.
The user experience benefit in performance alone makes it worth it for me. Even if we ignore eeeeeverything else, it’s so nice to have your computer just do what you ask it to do, and not triage your request with 50 other corporate priorities.
My favorite two recent examples are replacing Windows with Linux, and replacing Plex with Jellyfin.
How cute of them to think that they’ll have access to camera or that I got a camera in the first place
This will cause riots, lol.
If trump isn’t causing riots, this won’t either.
True. If I ever use the internet without an adblocker, I am instantly reminded of how much heavy lifting it does. Normies will just roll over and take this since they are quite used to watching series of unskippable ads at this point.
We will just have sketchy apps we download happily that trick the phone into thinking we are looking, further bloating them.
