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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pay_toilet

The most effective science fiction is that which is only an arm's reach away from current fact.

Oh god, imagine midroll ads on Pornhub..... "Oh yeah baby, lick that wet- [Overly loud and obnoxious Adam & Eve ad starts playing]"

Fair and I agree. I should have stated it in the past tense because what I really meant is exactly what you stated - that I wouldn't have brought the adblock to Youtube had they not gone nuclear assault in their ad approach and made the choice unreasonable, now I am unwilling to engage with them honestly without ENORMOUS, HERUCLEAN efforts towards rehabilitation on their part.

Cheers.

Hopefully somebody who actually makes monetized Youtube videos will join the conversation to answer that one, as I'm not certain. I'm a pretty active Youtube watcher and fairly savvy on the culture, so from what I've gleaned I believe there is some control given to creators but I believe it is somewhat limited. For example if you watch the Sorted channel (a UK-based food channel) with ads on, they seem to pretty consistently happen at small scene transitions, which leads me to believe the Sorted team is doing their part to strategically place them.

Honestly, Pornhub has the infrastructure to take on Youtube, if they wanted. If they just cloned the site, sans content, and called it Videohub, there would immediately be a real contender in the marketplace.

If they kept the ads to 10-15 seconds at the start of a video and didn't interrupt my videos for them, I would never use an adblock on Youtube (i'll even give them an allowance for one 10 second ad interruption for every hour in the case of super long videos). But for as long as they keep trying to squeeze every goddamn penny out of me that they can, I will fight back and do everything in my power to prevent them from being allowed even a single ad impression off me.

I'm not unreasonable, but I refuse to accept unreasonable offers.

Yes Walmart is a shithole but don't begrudge the people trying to make an honest living. It's classist, it's punching down at the wage worker by calling them a clown rather than punching up at the corporation for being a shithole.

Exactly my sentiment

Yeah I wish Vivaldi wasn't Chromium-based, because I love all the bells and whistles of Vivaldi so much. But like, at the end of the day it's still partly contributing to the Chromium dominance of the web, so I still have to default to Firefox as my primary.

I have never had a single conversation with any person wearing one of those wide-brim white girl hats which has made me desire to have a second conversation.

In some ways I appreciate that they've found an accessory to broadcast their narcissistic tendencies to others.

Forced Arbitration should absolutely be illegal. Here's an article on the topic if you've never thought about it before:

https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/3986551-the-time-to-ban-forced-arbitration-is-now/

Facts. We have a burger place like this that people love for some reason, but I swear they most the mid-quality burgers for $20+. It's crazy that people keep going there, imo.