Pat

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[–] Pat@kbin.run 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

No, the creator has been paid for the sponsorship beforehand. If you were never going to get the products that are sponsored then there's no difference between skipping it or letting it play and ignoring it.

I mean yeah, youtube does track the times in videos people do watch and are engaged in, but by skimming through almost any video you can see many people skip around and don't actually watch the full videos.

Sponsorblock just saves me from manually skipping past the sponsorships. I was never going to buy a shilled product to begin with anyway. I buy things based on my own research, not what a youtuber says I should buy.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 3 points 1 year ago

the only addons you need for blocking ads on youtube are ublock origin and sponsorblock. multiple adblockers used together can and will cause conflicts and impair the ability to properly block things.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing is going to change if all the companies violating rights and stuff keep getting just a slap on the wrist. Yeah, 368 million is a lot, but it's pocket change when considering tiktok brings in over 9 billion revenue a year.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 24 points 1 year ago (10 children)

More like added to the list of "wait till pirates fix it"

Will happen sooner than it being officially removed.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 12 points 1 year ago

ahaha one of the best uses of sweet bro and hella jeff i've seen. got a huge nostalgia hit from this lol

[–] Pat@kbin.run 3 points 1 year ago

Quit playing the numbers game. It's all irrelevant. Those numbers are there to go up, give you that dopamine, and get you addicted. Yeah, it's hard, but once you keep reminding yourself that most social media is designed to be addictive and is genuinely detrimental to mental health, you will begin to stop caring.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

If I'm talking to a friend I want them to be themselves and genuine. Having someone else compose a message for them, AI or human, invades my privacy and tells me that they don't want me to see who they genuinely are. Talk to me like you normally do. Don't paraphrase everything you want to say through a third party. We're not strangers, there's no need for everything to be professional. I'm friends with YOU, and I'm talking to YOU. Don't pretend to be someone you aren't.

To me this is less about AI vs Human, it's just the fact the friend isn't being genuine.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're telling me governments use computers? That's insane, I don't believe it. Next you'll be telling me they're on the internet too.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 2 points 1 year ago

Vivaldi is going to block this. It is a thing being built into the engine and they are going to be blocking it in their browser.

I know people say Vivaldi is slow but they've done some refactoring recently. Gave it a whirl and it's as fast as Edge now on my old crappy laptop.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you're on android check out spotube.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Both Sludge Life games. A bit unconventional but I found a lot of spots in the games where I would just stand there and take in the various scenes going on. Both games can be beaten fairly quick but it took me hours to get through them because I kept stopping to just take in everything going on.

[–] Pat@kbin.run 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I always thought the hypocrisy between alcohol and cannabis packaging is ridiculous. If cigarettes and cannabis need to be heavily restricted in terms of having simple, plain packaging with health warnings, anything for sale that can cause health issues should be subject to the same restrictions.

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