Google ad: resistance is futile … laser blasts Google ad …
Another Google ad appears: … Resistance is futile
We need to remodulate the phasers
Submitted 1 year ago by Oiconomia@feddit.de to risa@startrek.website
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ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
karlach@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What is the equivalent for being assimilated? Subscribing to YouTube Premium? Watching the ads?
drbluefall@toast.ooo 1 year ago
Yes.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
The Borg still adapt even if they use a randomly changing sequence, which means even in the future of Star Trek, they haven’t actually found a way for computers to generate real random numbers and it’s just an algorithm to simulate it, which of course the Borg can extrapolate from.
marcos@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would expect their random numbers to have at least 128 bits of entropy. Evidently, they have 2 or 3.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
for all their post-scarcity they ran out of entropy bits in the 2200’s and now they have strict rationing
nicoweio@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s an interesting idea, although I’d say in that case they just “meta-adapted”, so that even truly random variations in the same degrees of freedom would not have helped.
Cringe2793@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t the borg only adapt after they get shot? They need to experience it to adapt.
Paddzr@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Somehow I’ve been fine? Is my setup the chosen one or it just hasn’t come down to me/my region yet?
professor@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s sent out in waves.
First escalation, you just a warning with an “X” that you can close.
Second escalation, you will be the same warning but without the “X”. You can of course just block the element.
Third escalation, you get the “3 videos” message. After this, YouTube no longer serves you videos. You can get around this by logging out and using incognito mode on Firefox. There are other ways too if you go browse some ublock origin communities.
Stampela@startrek.website 1 year ago
I’ve been wondering about that too, after seeing this post I watched a 10+ minutes video and it was fine, but I’m not… on an average setup.
So for the moment I’m just going to suppose it’s not active for me yet. Thanks.
WarmSoda@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I don’t log in when I watch YouTube on Firefox. It remembers your watched videos anyways so why bother? I can’t leave comments or like anything, but “oh no”
I wonder if that’s why I haven’t seen any about using ublock.
Weslee@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just started to get it yesterday
nowitsabby@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 year ago
Piped + Libredirect on firefox
Stamets@startrek.website 1 year ago
Piped seems to work for most Youtube videos on Firefox, at least that I’ve found. My issue is that I have a youtube addon that allows me to double the volume and it doesn’t work on piped.
jaybone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
What’s the downside to switching to piped?
Stamets@startrek.website 1 year ago
There are fewer features than there are on YouTube. That’s about it. Otherwise it runs better in every regard.
The only reason I use YouTube proper is because of add-ons I already have that make my YouTube experience better.
Schm1tty@kbin.social 1 year ago
I self host an invidious instance and I haven't noticed any interruptions so far
viking@infosec.pub 1 year ago
Can you host them locally, if they are only meant for yourself?
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Yeah you can, a friend of mine was doing that. But he got nervous since Google is going after that also.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Use third party apps and services
Haphazard9479@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Use NewPipe
andthenthreemore@startrek.website 1 year ago
Revanced is still working.
kingshrubb@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Is Ublock going to keep fighting this? Will Google sue them?
themusicgod1@startrek.website 1 year ago
just tried watching a video ublock still working here, you gotta select the popover though
FrostKing@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah speaking of, is there a way to disable the pop-up on YouTube yet? I use Firefox and u block
admiralteal@kbin.social 1 year ago
This joke is backwards.
YouTube is the one trying to kill an infinitely adaptable adversary they stand no chance of defeating.
takeda@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They are “remodulating” chrome. If you continue to use chrome and any browser based on it, you might soon realize that adblocking doesn’t work anymore, because filtering support was neutered and you no longer will be able to switch to Firefox, as they will outright block it as it allows to block ads.
It is important to use Firefox now to make sure sites won’t start blocking it.
roguetrick@kbin.social 1 year ago
If YouTube ever blocks Firefox alphabet will finally be broken up.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Sounds like websites should subsidize firefox users by serving MORE ads to chrome users.
MossyFeathers@pawb.social 1 year ago
You say that but Google is working on shoving a drm scheme into Chrome that’d keep you from being able to modify sites (e.g. ad and script blocking) and, due to the sheer market share that chrome and Chromium-based browsers have, Google can kinda just do whatever they want. Of course, it’s ultimately up to the site owners to implement it, but you know probably 90% of sites will use it.
sirblastalot@ttrpg.network 1 year ago
Thank god for firefox!
starman2112@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
If you’ve seen Star Trek, you know that the humans are the real infinitely adaptable adversary that the Borg stand no chance of defeating
DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe 1 year ago
Sounds like a human wrote that.
negativenull@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Reverse the polarity, Geordi!
MJBrune@beehaw.org 1 year ago
You say that like the federation doesn’t win every single time.
admiralteal@kbin.social 1 year ago
Man, what kind of universe am I in where a Wolf 359-denier is getting favorites.
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 year ago
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