[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 21 points 3 weeks ago

This implies the CIA disinfo was some kind of oopsie

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I started getting the dreaded anti-adblock pop-ups on Youtube when they started ramping up their efforts a month or so back, and I initially went through the whole rigamarole: First it was just the pop-up, then it was the pop-up with the timer, then the 3-video countdown finally leading to the video player being disabled outright.

Throughout all of this I did the recommended Purging All Caches -> Update Now routine on the Ublock Dashboard at least once a day to keep the pop-ups away, but when it got to the player getting blocked it didn't seem to work anymore. Since I'm on Firefox, I experimented using Containers and found that I could just log in to my YT account on a different container to keep using Youtube until that container started getting blocked.

In the past few weeks I've noticed no issues though apart from having the video player blocked once, which was fixed by purging all caches and updating and I almost forgot about the whole anti-adblock thing altogether. It does seem like YT pages are loading slightly slower than they used to though.

Are you still having issues with Ublock on Youtube or were you even affected at all?

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 29 points 11 months ago

I'm assuming this will escalate to some insanely locked down DRM scheme. Guess I'll enjoy uBlock, ReVanced and yt-dlp while I can

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not sure how things are in Austria but where I live fast food is really expensive for someone strapped for cash

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Apparently American Reddit has been plastered with ads from a billion-dollar Evangelical Christian campaign for months and Jewish, LGBT amd atheist users have been especially targeted

Religion and Politics were categories you could not opt out of

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 38 points 1 year ago

L4D2 is such a timeless classic that the only thing that its imitators could do was dilute the formula with leveling and progression nonsense

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

Given how video game studios work, also probably laid off

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When I want to type a special non-English character like Ø, on my Android phone I simply long press on "o" on the keyboard and it brings up every variation of the letter o you could think of.

On Windows, the best you get is "please memorise this giant list of four number codes". If I'm going to have to google the code I'm probably just going to copy the letter and paste it into whatever I'm writing.

Why not add them to the damn emoji menu (Windows key + .)

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

The author points out that Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript, co-founder (and ex-CEO) of Mozilla, and founder of Brave, donated 1,000 USD in support of a proposition to ban same-sex marriage.

My impression was Brave got started after he got hoofed out of Mozilla or left on his own accord after the backlash for showing his ass to be a homophobe. Redditor types were of course very angry about this blatant disregard for frozen peaches and jumped onto his new venture in droves

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

All the fascist hentai guys on 4chan are about to commit mass suicide or a mass shooting

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Here's hoping uBO manages to stay on top of the adblock arms race after this shit gets rolled out to everyone 🤞

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

It seems to be happening to people regardless of the browser they're using. Google's currently only testing the new measures on random accounts

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Probably related to the issues I began having yesterday with Revanced- suddenly, videos started to infinitely buffer after around 1 minute of playing. I ended up having to update + reinstall Revanced entirely. Looking at the Revanced subreddit it seems more and more users have started getting affected by the same issue these past few weeks.

Google's definitely doing something.

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Can't wait until Google flips them on globally for all users doomer

[-] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Finnish has no articles troll

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