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Okay let's not go overboard here. I agree he is a "respected" member of the community, but yeah I think "beloved" is going way to far. His cat is probably more beloved in his videos than he is given you know YT's seeming love of them.
Anyone anchoring their success, their message, their code, to any social platform not their own has literally no control over it. He would know this better than most.
But his business isn't solely based on YT. Thats why we are having this discussion....
Is that what it's doing? I thought it simply allowed you to follow "your favorite" youtuber on other platforms they might also post to although I'm not going to watch another youtuber talk about a youtuber just so that first youtube can make money on this (what happened to writing articles, with words that can be quickly read?). That said a quick search shows they GrayJay app is available on the Google play store, so there has to be more to this story than "we don't like that he mentioned using it in a video" if they Play Store (also owned by the owners of Youtube) has the app for anyone to download.
Louis doesn't depend on YouTube for money, so he can promote adblockers all day long. A lot of YouTubers don't make money through ads due to YouTube being extremely vigilant with demonetization if you don't comply with their rules. It has gotten to the point where YouTubers promote adblockers, while also promoting their Patreon. It's not like Louis is biting the hand that feeds him, because YouTube ain't feeding him.
Now you know why people adblock, among many other reasons. Ever wonder how people got scammed into Mr Beasts scam? YouTube was showing ads for it. Google also hosted the apps used for the scam on their Play Store. Google can't be upset about people blocking ads if you allow scams through. People have been blocking ads since the year 2000 for this very same reason, and nothing has changed.
You're using Ublock or Revanced on your phone, then you would never see an ad. As a Linux user I've never seen an ad.
If you're using an iPhone then ads will get through. Ublock and Revanced are the only ways to be 100% ad free.
He doesn't and I am not saying he does, but nobody should be surprised by YouTube's response let alone him, the man knew he was poking the bear.
I use them too, but the network add block I had in place didn't update in time for the kid's little pre-Halloween party while the little ones were getting dressed and the angry looks I got from the Moms in the room when that add popped up mid-way through Monster Mash was... scary? I'm gonna go with scary.
If I recall correctly, the blocking of adblockers by Youtube is currently being tested in "select" markets/regions. I'm fairly certain the implementation of that is not universal yet.
Youtube does a staggered rollout of new unpopular changes these days ie: a few thousand users every day. This way they can make it happen under the radar, with no concentrated backlash from millions.
Per Youtube..... The “use of ad blockers” violates the platform's terms of service, adding that “ads support a diverse ecosystem of creators globally and allow billions to access their favorite content on YouTube.”
Network blocking is a last resort, if I happen to fresh install an OS that hasn't had Ublock installed. On my phone I have Firefox as my default browser with Ublock installed. I also have Revanced Extended for when I want to watch YouTube videos. I recently found an armv7 version of Revanced, which is great for older devices. Otherwise I'd have to use Newpipe, which doesn't have your YouTube history.
What if I told you that you don't need YouTube to watch YouTube videos? YouTube doesn't own the videos they host, so their TOS is basically toilet paper. YouTube can block you from YouTube, but not from the videos they host.
Installing an AdBlock isn't an option on the Samsung Tizen OS that the TV runs, so it's hardware or nothing when dealing with the Browser or YouTube app. And until yesterday the network block didn't have any problems filtering out the ads on the TV.
Indeed. Talked to Louis about this. He posted a video response, "How dare you! How dare you! How dare you!" (of course, then the video got flagged for copyright infringement).
Right. Earlier this year Amazon cancelled his referrer id or whatever you call it, where you can follow a link on his site to something on Amazon, and if you buy it, he gets a cut, over a YT video he made critical of Amazon, after they deactivated that guy's Amazon account, breaking his smart home, because a delivery driver claimed he heard something racist from the guy's Ring camera. Not only did they not tell him what they were doing, they didn't ever tell him why: he had to force the issue by showing them the video (which they probably could have done at any time on their own), and then it took a week or so for them to reinstate him. Rossmann made a video about it and the next day his account got terminated after 7+ years for unspecified violations of Amazon policy.
Lately YT, especially on mobile is serving up ads that are obvious scams.
are you telling me that ryan reynolds really doesnt want to sell me weed!?
I'm seeing stories on tech sites today that says YT's rolling it out everywhere, as of now.
LOL. Maybe he does, but not via YT ads.
I've never seen network blocking effectively work with YouTube, since the ads are from the same source as the video. There are other choices, like installing a NUC like this one and run everything from there. This is what I do for my family members except I buy cheap used NUCs off Ebay. Small enough that they can be hidden, but powerful enough to play just about any video streaming service, with adblock of course.
Twitch is the big one and I'm pretty sure it's larger than Youtube Live. Owned by Amazon though. Everything else is much smaller.
rumble and odysee. i've seen livestreams on rumble with 60,000+ people watching they're actually really stable these days. twitch isn't really much of a free speech platform
Oh, my sweet summer child...
I'm pretty sure stop oil and maybe even Greta are funded by the oil industry itself to make climate activists look ridiculous and to make them the enemies of the people.
Odysee is a decentralized video service. It runs on the LBRY blockchain. I am not aware of any kind of takedown from the site for content that wasn't illegal. They also don't allow pornography, but that is about it.
Normies see the neat side of smart homes, and generally don't do stuff that lets them see the warts.
I always try to talk clients out of smart home garbage, I've only ever failed at it twice. Both times they had us come back and take the shit out. People don't realize that this junk is functionally inferior to a fucking switch.
At one point i had all 'smart' bulbs and it was nice i could schedule lights or randomize when out of state for a bit. Colors and mood lighting was nice. And then slowly the shit just doesnt work as well and you spend 5 mins trying to turn a light on after re-pairing the bulb or whatever and then end up just taking it out entirely. My thermostat and outside cameras are all thats left and even those are on borrowed time.
So you choose to be willfully ignorant and not know what the hell you are talking about.Well the simple fact that he is on YT AND was stupid enough to do something that supposedly offended them, is all the research I need to place him in that category....
As for caricatures, the face that is plastered on that screenshot above sure looks like he's a ditwat toober to me, but that's just my opinion
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Honestly, if my house is being raided for me doing bad things i dont think it will make a difference. Though i dont have smart locks myself ,If it is the wrong house (and as such they are not liable for damage caused) then it would just be a simpler and cheaper task.
every apartment i've ever had i change the locks because by law they have to give you 48hrs notice to enter your unit and i want to be there. and i have had them call me up and tell me i have to give them a key if i want to change the lock, then i tell them they aren't suppose to be in there without notifying me. then to get them off my back i go and give them a key, but it's not to the apartment. lol
I know its not the stuff that is generally likely be sold to end users who are non-technical (at least, not unless they're willing to throw gobs of money at you to configure everything and set it up for them), but are you familiar with some of the alternatives to the big names? www.openhab.org for instance can control a wide variety of hardware, is open source, locally hosted and privacy respecting ; I hear good things about www.home-assistant.io as well. I get people wanting to have at least some "smart home" functionality, the problems I see is that the vast majority of them - like so many other things in the modern age - are built for convenience, centralization, and corporate walled-garden creation. I can't tell you how foolish it seems to me that you can buy a Nest / Ring or whatever the heck else camera, and it cannot either spawn its own LAN-specific web server or connect to one on a local system, but instead requires an "app" or login where its streaming your content to Amazon/Google etc..servers and you have to connect there to watch it. Thankfully, it seems that OpenHab , HomeAssistant and other projects can connect to most hardware and get around the spyware and crappy standard lockins.
This was the house of the guy who rented a van and drove it through NYC, with the names and pictures--but no other info--of people who signed a pro-Palestinian letter. Someone swatted him because they didn't like him naming and shaming. He was not at home when this happened.