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  • Fangslash@lemmy.worldtoTechnology@lemmy.worldComing to you soon...
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    1 year ago

    There used to be a trick where you can skip ads in youtube app by pretending to report it. i’ve used that to skip the 2x30s unskippable ads over the years, but that was patched recently.

    So instead of occasionally watching ads while scrolling through comments, I’ve now opt to watch youtube in browser with UblockOrigin. And good luck to google for playing catch-22 with adblockers.

    Shame that I used to have youtube in my adblock whitelist














  • I have tried many forum-styled site over the years including the politically more questionable ones, and from what I see theres 3 hurdles a site need to pass in order to be good:

    1. it needs good infrastructure, especially user interface (where 4ch, most forum, and now reddit fail)

    2. it has some gatekeeping to filter out the “order consumers”, but not too much that it drives user away, including having a toxic environment (where 4ch and .win fail)

    3. it needs to have enough user generated content so thay theres actually reasons to use the site (whre most reddit clones fail)

    from what I see lemmy has passed all the hurdles, and I have good hope the fediverse will stick around