balketh

Eggbug was here. Eggbug mattered.

Goblin Party @ My Brain 24/7 | A week shy of 33 before Cohost closed. Cis, ACAB forever, Trans Rights Are Human Rights forever.

RIP Cohost 2024. You were the best social media site to have ever been done. Long live eggbug. If you're seeing this in the future, on some archive, be kind to others. It's the only way things get better.

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If you're having problems with Youtube's new attempt to stop you using an adblocker, you might be using the wrong adblocker then.

uBlock Origin (yes, Origin, not uBlock or uBlock Plus or any crap like that) has not once failed me in keeping this new shit away completely. I have continued to have a flawless YT experience as uBO's update pace has been breakneck. Every 'fix' that is community posted ends up being already incorporated in some way into uBlock Origin. And if anything gets through, it's entirely because my copy of the addon hasn't updated yet, and is likely in the middle of doing so.

Between this and SponsorBlock preventing me from seeing any undesired in-video ads by just skipping them, I've truly had an ad-free YT experience for years at this point, and it hasn't stopped yet.

Here's me hoping that Youtube is basically forced to either relent, or to destroy their profitability trying to combat people's ability to watch their videos without ads.

No matter what you think, they cannot win. Literally. Even if it's fully paywalled - that's what piracy is for, babyeeeee.

They cannot win.


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Earnestly - it's quite horrifying. I've seen it all. In very rare circumstances I have to turn off all my protections to see what the fuck a website is trying to convey, and it's an unfiltered nightmare, like someone flayed the amygdala right off my brain.

Especially the last few years, not just in the increase in ads, but the content of them. War footage, outright misinformation, American-style advertising of frankly bad and wrong things. It's quite sickening.

I like the idea of ads that are good. Funny ads. Well made ads. Quick ads. Ads for actual real things. But the pervasive, all-consuming, ever-growing corpulent nature of the online ad empire is just... Revolting. Like. Revolt. In the streets. GIVE ME THAT MOLOT-