Complimenting a username is nice, but you don't have to throw in a disclaimer about political alignment. I don't think any of your hexbear friends, if they're reasonable, would call you a lib because you complimented the username of a guy whose instance is populated by libs.
I wouldn't be surprised, but I'm not convinced downvoting comments has any effect on YouTube.
The names and PFPs still give it away if you know about them.
Hehe, that's funny. So everyone thinks it's this profound thing, but he was actually just talking about the size of office paper?
They're not just "casually" stealing comments. They steal a random comment from the video, then have a bunch of other bots give it a bunch of thumbs up so that it appears towards the top and accumulates more upvotes than most human comments make. 95% of the time it seems, the real comment has one or two upvotes and is buried so far you have to scroll multiple pages to reach it.
At least it doesn't look like it shrunk too.
I have no problem with the acceptable ads system. ABP doesn't get any money from it, and the ads have to meet the criteria anyways, and it's easy to opt out. I guess it's a bit fishy that the list maintainers charge money to get ads reviewed, but the FAQ ThunderWhiskers posted says that smaller companies get it for free, and they only charge the bigger companies. I'm not gonna get up in arms over someone charging Disney money for a service they give the local deli for free.
I also like the way it gives companies an incentive to produce less intrusive ads. With the system, unintrusive ads reach more people. Otherwise, it's all or nothing, which makes intrusive ads the best option from a greedy perspective; they're far more likely to be clicked, and the only cost is the risk of damaging the ad ecosystem as a whole (and you know how little corporations can care about damaging ecosystems.)
That's the neat part, I don't. If there's anything really important, it will leak into memes, or I'll hear it from family members, but I don't think I've ever heard a piece of news and thought "Oh, it's a good thing I know that now."
I can see where you're coming from. I already blocked the news because I come here for memes and don't like following the news anyways, but yeah, if you're looking for non-political news, I guess that can be rough.
Oh, you support a mainstream candidate, huh? What else, do you like eating babies? Why don't you just admit you're evil incarnate and vote for my favored candidate instead?
I haven't really noticed much, but that's because I've taken to blocking political communities once they start bothering me by putting too many article links in the front page or being generally rageful.
Well to be fair, that wasn't until 6 hours after my comment and 9 hours after yours, so neither of us could have known for sure.