I go out of my way to follow the rules, like watching a sport even on the NBC website with their commercials, and then after ten minutes they say “you must sign in to your tv provider”.
So I get aboard my ship, put on my eyepatch and find the game in an Iranian server farm. I don’t want to be a pirate, they make me.
They want you to give them money or die
Textbook enshittification. Rope them in, then pull the rug.
You know, if they just simply kept ads to be some banner on the top and bottom of the page, maybe some image on the side that didn't interrupt you, the most intrusive thing being that the ad may be brightly colored and animated so your eye moves to it, nobody would EVER block ads. But they brought this upon themselves.
They cannot do it any other way. The vertical integration, the monopolization, the ridiculous amount of advertisement, it's all a race towards a shrinking profit. Carve out a smaller niche for advertising with targeted ads (just run your ads for the people who will actually buy your product!) but all you're doing is saturating an almost critically saturated market of advertisers. As the margins continue to shrink, my guess is you'll see a very shitty "free" tier and some very expensive memberships. The "enshittification" continues
Shit's making me ready to kill myself tomorrow. No, Youtube adblock doesn't matter, most of my Youtube consumption happens on the TV app with my remote. This isn't about personally losing my bread and circuses, this is about how the best social medium we currently have is Youtube other such mediums like TikTok (don't even use it, but recognize it as extraordinarily important and innovative). But every way the ruling class forces us to change our lifestyle based on their ads borders on life ruining. Because it's not about the actual bread or the circuses, it's about elevating the bread and circuses, making them bigger and thinner than ever so we feel more satisfied but more starved.
Replying directly to the image:
The endgame is for you to die!
What is their endgame?
Why do you care? The hell are you going to do about it? You're 4chan, You've been cheering on hellworld ever since you were born.
All they have to do is blame the Jews and you will be willing to DIE for the people that ruined your life, just so you can feel like you have power over something.
The cia need their mind control machine to make a profit
I'll tell you their plan:
Take all red blooded, meat eating, toilet shitting, masculine patriots and kill their boners with advertising to stop conservatives from procreating. All the pink haired pro World War 3 consumers will become aroused by the ads, and will eventually outbreed conservativism and American Values. Conservative men today have no choice but blow each other just a little to get hard for procreation sex with their wives
Invidious reminder. https://redirect.invidious.io/
Choose an instance and let it rip. It's still working. For now.
This guy will just sheepishly retreat into the videogames he claims to hate on /v/. America's reputation is so low that it's fun to think that these guys not getting good enough TV and games means a world war has to happen, but in reality their butthurt doesn't influence stuff like that, it's just a narcissistic cope.
Also the content isn't gone, they just have to watch ads. He's just plain making shit up.
youtube dlp plug: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp
id take this shitty version then the one theyre rolling on me now. Its a similar pop up but instead of giving me 3 videos to watch before an ad I have to wait a time before it lets me close out of the pop up and play the video...for every single video. Pulling up like 6-7 videos in background and then having to do that every time is bullshit. Im literally gonna not use youtube anymore. Is there like a nitter for youtube or some shit. I am not watching fucking ads on a desktop...
Could you just use OffLiberty to download the videos locally to circumvent the ads?
It's been pushing me to consume more free content like podcasts and public domain audiobooks.
Is this dual power?
I just click allow and close the pop-up lol, haven't had issues with it blocking me from playing. I use the YouTube Enhancer extension rather than a dedicated blocker, maybe that's why?
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