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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.
If you’ve seen Star Trek, you know that the humans are the real infinitely adaptable adversary that the Borg stand no chance of defeating
Sounds like a human wrote that.
God damn right
You say that but Google is working on shoving a drm scheme into Chrome that’d keep you from being able to modify sites (e.g. ad and script blocking) and, due to the sheer market share that chrome and Chromium-based browsers have, Google can kinda just do whatever they want. Of course, it’s ultimately up to the site owners to implement it, but you know probably 90% of sites will use it.
Thank god for firefox!
Reverse the polarity, Geordi!
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You mean “The Borg” figuratively
Google ad: resistance is futile …
laser blasts Google ad …
Another Google ad appears: … Resistance is futile
What is the equivalent for being assimilated? Subscribing to YouTube Premium? Watching the ads?
Yes.
But the borg assimilate you for free.
To the Borg, you are the product.
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.
I would expect their random numbers to have at least 128 bits of entropy. Evidently, they have 2 or 3.
for all their post-scarcity they ran out of entropy bits in the 2200’s and now they have strict rationing
You guys are killing me
Don’t the borg only adapt after they get shot? They need to experience it to adapt.
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.
Somehow I’ve been fine? Is my setup the chosen one or it just hasn’t come down to me/my region yet?
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.
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.
I just started to get it yesterday
Piped + Libredirect on firefox
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.
What’s the downside to switching to piped?
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.
I self host an invidious instance and I haven’t noticed any interruptions so far
Can you host them locally, if they are only meant for yourself?
Yeah you can, a friend of mine was doing that. But he got nervous since Google is going after those also.
Use third party apps and services
Is uBlock going to keep fighting this? Will Google sue uBlock and crush them with it’s monopolistic power?
Revanced is still working.
just tried watching a video ublock still working here, you gotta select the popover though
Yeah speaking of, is there a way to disable the pop-up on YouTube yet? I use Firefox and u block
