Are you trying to STEAL entertainment??

Hey black mirror had this where they had to watch an ad and looking away was illegal. We're getting there with Google and their recent and announced YouTube and Chrome changes.

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"Please drink verification can"

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- Boy this greentext really ages like fine wine huh
  
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Jokes on them. I can be looking straight at something and still not be paying attention.

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That’s why you need a Neurolink so that they can make sure that you are thoughtfully considering each ad.

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- "Picture yourself holding the product and smiling"
  
  "Now picture yourself recommending the product to friends and family."
  
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You know you’ve really made it as a meme when u/the_picard_maneuver posts you on lemmy. Love you bud hope you’re doing well x

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Hey, is this yours?! I thought it was hilarious.

Also <3

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- Haha unfortunately not - I wish I was this funny. First time I saw it, it needed a lot more jpeg so glad to see it’s been renovated. Meme of the month at least imo.
  
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Watching the ad instead of clicking it constitutes a violation of YouTube terms of service.

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You wouldn't steal a car, would you?

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You wouldn't steal a baby.
You wouldn't shoot a policeman, and then steal his helmet.
You wouldn't go to the toilet in his helmet.
And then send it to the policeman's grieving widow...

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- And then steal it again!
  
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Yes.

Yes I would.

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Please drink verification can

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mmmm that really hit the spot

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- Now I gotta piss.
  
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Except that second button won't be there. There's something weird going on in our economy where the customers can't actually afford the products but somehow their attention/data is still valuable. I don't get it

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I honestly don't understand how advertisement is valued to highly.

I have probably seen 1000hrs worth of ads by now and probably spent less than $1000 on the products advertised. But somehow if I want to avoid those ads I have to pay 10x that

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- Especially on the internet it seems that the strategy is to beat you into submission, waterboarding you with branding until you aren't capable of doing anything other than buying their product.
  
  I get sick of seeing ads and then black list the company out of spite. And I do that brain surgery with a backhoe. Because of a certain marketing campaign for a Mission: Impossible movie, I'm never paying to see an action movie of any kind ever again. Because they annoyed me too much in 2015 or so. And because of Dr. Squatch, I think when I'm out of my current supply of Dial I'm going to start making my own soap.
  
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What a fun joke!

So fun!

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And here I am, completely ignoring YT and reading blogs, instead.

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I'm more and more moving to podcasts and blogs as well.

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Which kind of blogs?

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- I mean, it depends. Tutorials, for instance, when I need some info on something to fix, either physically or informatically (e.g., hosting and network stuff). Video format is utterly time expensive for this kind of stuff. I avoid it like the plague. For entertainment, I have a couple of subscriptions a la Netflix. I'm not interested at all in watching/listening "content creators".
  
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Last week I've been laughed at for having written a travel blog a decade ago. Fuck you, blogs are hip again! You're the boomer!

I don't mean you, you're probably cool. I mean my colleague who laughed at me.

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Wait until they require a quiz be taken to prove you watched the video. They could also stitch together the video with the ads, so it's all a single video. They can make fast-forwarding videos impossible (to stop the sponsorblock stuff). Begun the Ad Wars have.

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Didn't YouTube literally do this with the question ads a few years ago? That's when I decided I would NEVER be nice to advertisers. They're selling my time for money, not giving me the money, and now they're rude about it. 110% fuuuuuuck them.

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- I usually eithe rjust let the timer run out on those or submit bad data
  
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Piped 💪

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Ok, we made it so YouTube only fetches an enter URL of a video, and when you click on a video, that opens. Only YouTube can give you the actual video link as it is stored and associated in our own database, and you only get it when logged in with Google (so basically you need an account to watch videos but not to see the thumbnails).

Now, we'll only allow Google account sing-ins from a trusted browser or trusted website. This is of course for your security. We will provide you a custom token if you ask to approve a browser, website or an app and we'll take careful looks to see if it violates our policies or not. If we don't detect a valid token provided by your browser, we will display an error message and won't allow you to sing in. Firefox has to also implement this in order to stay relevant (most people need allowing Google logins). The policy bans all things like scam websites, some other things and things against TOSes including YouTube's. Third-party apps blocking ads will be not permitted by YouTube now. We will reject any approve request done by things like Piped and Newpipe.

Have fun with your broken pipe. If they find a fix, we will break it again (:

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This reminds me of the very real patent that exists for a television that requires you to stand up from your couch, raise your hands in the air, and shout the name of the product you just watched an ad for before it lets you return to watching your program.

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The day they successfully implement that and I pass by someone actually doing it, I will promptly fall to the ground and die

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Please click verification scam to continue

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Drink verification can?

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I just found this and I've been loving it, works really well.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

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I'm really happy to see point #2 being mentioned. From their inception, Youtube established a social contract of providing their videos free to users without ads. I don't think Google should just be allowed to unilaterally change the contract on behalf of all parties and force it on everyone. If they had a good reason to do so, perhaps I would humor it, but "because of shithead shareholders" does not pass that bar.

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I keep telling you YouTube I have a cloaca and I'm not sure what to call it when I go

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Excuse me, bitch, but how the fuck you know I went to piss? That's a violation of my privacy.

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You joke but wasn't the sound of a zipper activating google home at one point?

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See u just are inhouse premium google calender, to schedule peeing. So that way you can go back to WATCHING MORE ADS :D

-GOOGLE

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Why is THAT the line for your privacy? I'd take them knowing my piss schedule over literally all of the other private information they have access to.

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No problem. Just use a proper ad blocker, and there will be no ads that you could use to go to the loo.

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Just wait til it uses the camera on your phone to track your eyes and will pause every time you look away.

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If technology exists they will 100% implement that ads will keep repeating unless there are people in the room. The active listening devices already record every data they can and it’s only a matter of time before they can accurately conclude if the room is empty or occupied.

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Honestly , can't wait for the future where companies like them are allowed to make adless entertainment illegal. It's going to be the absolute best future we could ever ask for. We should be thankful to our overlords for saving us from never having to see ads ever again. /s

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In less than ten years this will be a "nottheonion" headline...

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