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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.
They are “remodulating” chrome. If you continue to use chrome and any browser based on it, you might soon realize that adblocking doesn’t work anymore, because filtering support was neutered and you no longer will be able to switch to Firefox, as they will outright block it as it allows to block ads.
It is important to use Firefox now to make sure sites won’t start blocking it.
If YouTube ever blocks Firefox alphabet will finally be broken up.
Wanna bet? There are ways to frog in a boiling pot this. And chrome isn’t the only browser that will support blocking Firefox. (They’ll argue Chromium is not Google, only Chrome).
That’s a fig leaf. US courts might agree with that argument, but European courts will see that it all is monopolistic practices to support their ad business. YouTube itself can’t survive market dominance without it’s preferential deals with it’s parent company’s hosting and ads. Ask viemo how using cloud hosting to serve video and third party ads works out. It would be suicidal. The truth is they ALREADY should be broken up.
We’re talking about computers, not leaves
computer me alone
computer TURN OFF THAT NOISE
Google likely will be one of the last ones to do it (exactly so it will be hard to to put them in court). I already see Microsoft (surprise!) do this and asking to use Chrome or Edge.
Sounds like websites should subsidize firefox users by serving MORE ads to chrome users.
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!
You say that like the federation doesn’t win every single time. Humans are more adaptable than the borg.
Man, what kind of universe am I in where a Wolf 359-truther is getting favorites.
Haha, I don’t know enough about that fan theory to say I believe it or not but I will say no matter what, humans still stopped the Borg cube. Otherwise Earth would have gotten assimilated.
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You mean “The Borg” figuratively
Google ad: resistance is futile …
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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
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.
Don’t the borg only adapt after they get shot? They need to experience it to adapt.
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.
Piped + Libredirect on firefox
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
Use NewPipe
Revanced is still working.
Is uBlock going to keep fighting this? Will Google sue uBlock and crush them with it’s monopolistic power?
Yeah speaking of, is there a way to disable the pop-up on YouTube yet? I use Firefox and u block
just tried watching a video ublock still working here, you gotta select the popover though
