OK, full disclosure: I only sat through this 27 minute video cuz the chick is super dreamy
and is total nomz to the eyes - BUT, the bonus - their music is actually really good! It sounds
like it's straight out of the 80's! So good on them for pulling that off! 

"Friend Machine" is my favorite song from this set. First time ever seeing/hearing this band
but I'd listen to them again.

This is what YouTube was created for.

These videos are really interesting. Californian used to build nice, useful things, but now just builds monuments to the tech overlords. 

This is good Hamish. He's fired up.

One thing that freaks me the shit out about AJ/Why Files is that he uses some kinda AI voice masker in some of his clips, and it seems like everyone's voice is available... I've heard him use Morgan Freeman, Art Bell and others. I think he reads the lines and then feeds it thru the AI. You can tell by the breathing pattern and other tells that it is him reading it.

I'd love to get a Rod Serling voice for narrating but... I feel icky about the concept. I dunno, I guess I'll have to get used to it because this is clearly the future. I just don't like the idea that you could get it to say whatever kinda fucked up shit you wanted. And it sounds 100% real.

(10-05-2023, 06:58 PM)somethingelseishere Wrote: Today I've gotten a pop-up window a few times on YT saying "Ad blockers are not allowed on YouTube."

Just got it...

Bye, YouTube!

From here on out, YT should only be used for uploading... never consuming. It either gives you something in return, or it gets nothing.

Using it to listen to music (or watch music videos) will be the worst part of the change. They really made a mistake with this.

Next Twitter will be forcing you to pay if you wanna read...

Both YT and Twitter are dinosaurs.

Never paid for them before, sure the fuck ain't gonna start now. LOL!!!!!!!!!

I will say this though...

I could understand why people would pay for an ad-free YouTube.

But paying just to read Twitter??

Holy shit.

It's unimaginable.

But that's what's coming... they're gonna charge just to read Twitter, and it's not gonna work out. If Elon broke the bank so hard just to buy that shill/bot infested shit hole that he needs to charge people to read it, then I guess he ain't that smart.

At least YouTube has some massively valuable shit on it. The same just cannot be said for Twitter... at least not with a straight face.

(10-13-2023, 07:56 PM)Chatwoman Wrote: At least YouTube has some massively valuable shit on it.

All of which I have undoubtedly already seen...

Get your own damn sites, people. I'm telling you. Eventually you just cannot put up with this shit anymore, you gotta revolt and just kick it on your own turf. At a certain point, it's a matter of principle.

The idea that Elon wants to charge for a badly designed message board? It's insane. Twitter was always a bad take on the bulletin board system the internet was founded on. It was never good, and it's not good now.

Twitter won't ever be good. Even if they redesign the whole thing under the X brand, it'll still suck, because it was built on suck. It was built on a mountain of shill shit. The video streaming thing they were banking on isn't working out all that well for them so far either... it's because the design is garbage. They will have to change the site to be unrecognizable to have a chance at fixing it.

Garbage garbage garbage... the whole 9.

The content on Youtube has gone downhill massively.

the good YouTube content is still there just hidden by their stupid algos ... to protect us from the truth and happiness

they want us in a constant state of anxiety feels like most days

So, last night a little while before knocking off I got the "Ad blockers are not allowed
on YouTube" screen on a video I clicked on. It was a full-on block. No way of closing
it or doing anything - UNLESS I would allow YT ads... I did not.

I had seven or eight other tabs open with YT vids paused in progress and clicked play
on each of them to see if they'd maybe play for a few seconds and then default to
that same screen - they didn't, so I paused them all again and closed the tab that
effectively locked me out of watching anything. Then, I shut the laptop.

Upon opening the laptop today I noticed when I opened a new tab for a fresh YT
page I was able to click on a few vids and they all played with no issues. Like they
had been forever. Sooo, Idkwtf is going on. I Google'd "YouTube Ad block boycott" 
and got a small few results linking to reddit posts. Reluctantly, I clicked on a couple.

Duuuude, the shit I would have to do to circumvent this ad block bullshit
is crazy-ridiculous-nonsense! Especially since I'm no tech wizard. Jeeeeezus H.
Fornicator, it would take an hour to jump through all those hoops - AND THEN people
were saying they were having to rinse & repeat all those steps every couple or so
hours cuz YT was up on the UBlock Origin game and knew they had a shitload of
volunteers working OFF the clock, around the clock to jimmy new ways around 
every update they were putting in place with their tattle-ware.

So I went to bed thinking I'd either have to allow ads for the few videos I really 
want to watch or I'd just delete EVERY fucking upload I've got and THEN - my account!
Good thing I slept on it, as today it seemed to go back to normal. Probably not 
for long though. It really is a thing of principle - they've got way more than enough
money from all the bullshit they've got in motion. They need to fuck off and stop being
so goddamn money-hungry! I'll keep watching as long as I don't have to run ads.

YouTube, you motherfuckers are fuckin' UP!!