YouTube just made it harder to avoid ads with a tiny skip button
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https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-skip-button-for-ads-smaller-for-everyone/
https://www.androidpolice.com/youtube-skip-button-for-ads-smaller-for-everyone/
knocking on wood so far with firefox and ublock/noscript and disabled hardware acceleration, i will get audio but no video when these ads autoplay-- instead of pressing the skip button, i just hit f5 and poof, gone. still more work than i prefer but i hate advertising as much as anything
I tried using sunshine/moonlight to stream hockey from my PC to my tv and the stream was black (until I disabled hardware acceleration). Legit blew my fucking mind. I was 30% impressed and 70% angry. Once again paying customers are the ones with the shitty UX.
I'm sure the average person doesn't give a fuck but I am slowly but surely being driven away from any and all paid content. I can't watch 40 dudes skate around in circles without being fucking bombarded with gambling ads from every fucking possible avenue. Because millions isn't enough they need more millions.
I'm getting so fucking jaded.
Google is respecting already existing laws in the EU that prevent them from collecting information about your browser without your consent
Oh yeah, the EU has shown it actually has teeth hitting even the bigger companies where it hurts: fines that aren't just "cost of business" but actually impact their revenue.