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2025-02-20 18:36 from Nurb432
Well, 'lite for v3' does not block YT ads fully. It shows a
blank screen thru some of them, others show a static banner..
and the video itself only played the last couple of minutes (
out of 11 ) . Not tried other stream sites yet, but that was
mostly a fail.
Off for another solution, before v2 dies on my desktop.
For Youtube videos, I have a private server that acts as an advertising removing proxy. It is a bitch to setup but if you are interested I can share details.
Fun fact, I think SearxNG has integration with some Youtube-ad-remover frontends.
I was doing something like that for a bit, but then i ran across a dedicated YT blocker, which then got removed by force "its malware, its gone, suckers".. then found ublock.
Ublock does still seem to work with FF. and YT-DLP.
For Youtube videos, I have a private server that acts as an advertising removing proxy. It is a bitch to setup but if you are interested I can share details.
Its still chromium based, so it will be impacted at some point. Tomorrow? Perhaps not, but someday it wont be practical to put back missing prices and not break things.
I have more faith than that in the ability of the free world to resist that kind of thing. We've done it before and we'll do it again if we have to. The death of Internet Explorer should serve as sufficient evidence to demonstrate that John Gilmore was right, the people of the Internet can and will work around anyone attempting to gatekeep.
And anyway the Chromium code now sits in a place where derivative works are pretty much the intention. Google, Microsoft, Brave, and a dozen others are pulling from it. Mozilla is dead to me, they are doubling down on being assholes about removing "nazis" from the community. Let them collapse, I don't care.
I would agree, but if anything i have learned is that each generation is more controllable than the previous and less likely to rock the boat. Even if they claim they will.
Today's generation, they just accept tech as it is, and are not organized or competent enough to change it. "this is how its always worked, feed us more 30 second videos .. *squirrel* what were we talking about?" ( and yes im speaking generalization not specific people, but it takes the 'whole' to force change in a different direction )
Sorry, i see the future is bleak, and i see the 'free world' as a lost concept that we are merely living in the shadows of, as the rulers see fit to keep people complaisant as they slowly, incrementally ratchet things down. I see no light at the end of the tunnel. Not even an oncoming train. ( but that should surprise no one :) )
Mon Feb 24 2025 14:27:55 UTC from IGnatius T Foobar
I have more faith than that in the ability of the free world to resist that kind of thing.
Subject: Your post's visibility has been limited.
And here's one more place where X is better than Twitter was, and definitely better than any Google property still is.
As I might have mentioned before, I actually have *three* accounts on X.
One as IG, one as the official X account for citadel.org, and a third account with a name I won't share that I use exclusively for shitposting. It wasn't hard to get kicked off Twitter, and in fact my primary email and phone number are still attached to an account whose lifetime ban is still in effect. Thankfully you don't need a phone number to activate an X account.
When the shitpost account crosses a line, so to speak ... and it happens often ... I get an email saying "Your post's visibility has been limited" and explains that it violated community guidelines. And that seems to be all that happens.
Google could learn a few things from this. Imagine not having to count strikes.
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Ick. I wonder what happens to ChromeOS and Android.. they are all intertwined.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -OpenAI would be interested in buying Google's Chrome if antitrust enforcers are successful in forcing the Alphabet unit to sell the popular web browser as part of a bid to restore competition in search, an OpenAI executive testified on Tuesday at Google's antitrust trial in Washington.
i still worry about the downstream effects for us consumers.
Google may not be 'great' but having them collapse and leaving us with 2 practical choices left for many things which are far worse ( Microsoft and Apple ) would be terrible. There are a lot of good projects their ad revenue funds, which are really a revenue loss on their own as a 'product'. Lose too much revenue at the top, projects like that get cancelled and we lose options. ( and this does not happen just with the IT industry, its common in others too )
Aside from not being able to fund them so we lose the alternatives, forced spin offs like is being discussed, most often die too, or soon after spin off they get bought by one of the other big ones, and vanish, so same result.
It means that the default search engine in Chrome is going to be Bing pretty soon, since M$ has a controlling interest in OpenAI.
Or you end up like we did when AT&T was broken up. Higher costs, tons of walled gardens. Bell labs was effectively shut down due to lack of funding. Who knows what we lost out on.
Even today, just try to take a carrier cell phone across to another garden. Even if you can, its going to be a battle.
But true, we, the consumer, still got the shaft, while the government and their donors ( ie, payola ) got more $ and power, over us.
something i read in passing in the news
"Feds demanding google open up android to allow 3rd party stores and developers and offer the same development tools and allow external payment systems " um... they do. Sure, google has issues, but don't need to make stuff up..