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  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.orgtoTechnology@lemmy.worldAds on YouTube
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    29 minutes ago

    The ad industry is parasitic. I have avoided ads since they first hit the web. Initially, I would not visit or remain on any web page with an ad. When that became untenable, I installed ad blockers. I presently download YT videos to view locally to avoid ads. When that stops working, I will stop watching YT videos.

    I pay to skip ads on podcasts if I like and enjoy the content. I skip them on the ones I don’t pay for. If the ad model is particularly obnoxious and I don’t like a show enough to pay, I stop listening.



  • EFF has been fighting the good fight for decades. I signed up for their newsletter in the 90s when I was a teen and still didn’t understand enough about the world to be confident that I properly understood what they stood for, concerned that I might have picked the wrong side. I occasionally check their job listings. But they need lawyers and legal experts and I’m trying to run their IT infrastructure. At some point, if I check enough times, maybe they’ll need the skills I have. I’d drop any job to work for them.




  • But he’s gonna announce the plan soon and then you’ll see that it’s a very good plan, everyone who already knows agrees, it’s a plan that only this administration, because they have the best people, very smart people, and everyone’s working very hard, very hard, and so you’ll see that this plan is really the only plan that is guaranteed to work because they’ve considered all the variables, have you thought how many variables are involved? It’s a lot. But they considered them, no one else would have thought about all of them, and that’s why you’re going to, everyone, really, everyone will be so impressed because it’s a perfect plan, just wait and you’ll see.