• admiralteal@kbin.social
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    This joke is backwards.

    YouTube is the one trying to kill an infinitely adaptable adversary they stand no chance of defeating.

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    Google ad: resistance is futile …

    laser blasts Google ad

    Another Google ad appears: … Resistance is futile

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    The Borg still adapt even if they use a randomly changing sequence, which means even in the future of Star Trek, they haven’t actually found a way for computers to generate real random numbers and it’s just an algorithm to simulate it, which of course the Borg can extrapolate from.

    You’d think they’d have quantum mechanics on lock by the 24th century.

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      I would expect their random numbers to have at least 128 bits of entropy. Evidently, they have 2 or 3.

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      That’s an interesting idea, although I’d say in that case they just “meta-adapted”, so that even truly random variations in the same degrees of freedom would not have helped.

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    Somehow I’ve been fine? Is my setup the chosen one or it just hasn’t come down to me/my region yet?

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      It’s sent out in waves.

      First escalation, you just a warning with an “X” that you can close.

      Second escalation, you will be the same warning but without the “X”. You can of course just block the element.

      Third escalation, you get the “3 videos” message. After this, YouTube no longer serves you videos. You can get around this by logging out and using incognito mode on Firefox. There are other ways too if you go browse some ublock origin communities.

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        I’ve been wondering about that too, after seeing this post I watched a 10+ minutes video and it was fine, but I’m not… on an average setup.

        So for the moment I’m just going to suppose it’s not active for me yet. Thanks.

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    Piped seems to work for most Youtube videos on Firefox, at least that I’ve found. My issue is that I have a youtube addon that allows me to double the volume and it doesn’t work on piped.

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        There are fewer features than there are on YouTube. That’s about it. Otherwise it runs better in every regard.

        The only reason I use YouTube proper is because of add-ons I already have that make my YouTube experience better.

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        Yeah you can, a friend of mine was doing that. But he got nervous since Google is going after those also.

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    Is uBlock going to keep fighting this? Will Google sue uBlock and crush them with it’s monopolistic power?

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    Yeah speaking of, is there a way to disable the pop-up on YouTube yet? I use Firefox and u block