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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve stopped using YouTube for the most part. Cut down a lot once they broke the search function and I could no longer find what I was looking for because every result would be flooded with random shorts and other irrelevant content.

  Then, my account, which was made in either 05 or 06, got flagged as belonging to a minor and they asked me to verify my age with an ID. Why this even happened when the account itself is over 18 now, and I’m not in the US (which I thought was the only place their age verification BS was being implemented) is beyond me.

  I wish there were more options for long form video sharing, since YouTube seems to be the only viable platform for it at the moment.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube adds new hurdles for ad blockers, and there's currently no way around it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s wrong with Brave?/gen I keep seeing positive comments about it, so there must be something I don’t know.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lawyers set to argue that Instagram and YouTube intentionally addicted and harmed teen in landmark social media trial⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Countdown to ID verification requirements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And a fork makes a terrible electrician.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Dunno why this is worldwide, then. Why should I have to comply with what some states in the US want when I’m not even in the same country, and my country has none of these age verification laws? Whole world shouldn’t have to give up their privacy just because Tennessee said so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homeland Security Spying on Reddit Users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Notorious terrorist, Budget Chicken.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They pulled Tumblr over cartoon porn, but using AI to sexually abuse actual women and children is all good, apparently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to be able to get comics and manga in ebook form. I’ve always had to go with the print versions because two-page spreads end up looking bad/being more confusing to read on my ereader thanks to the single page display.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated code contains more bugs and errors than human output⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Water makes things wetter than fire does.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember when Tumblr banned porn, and implemented it so poorly that any photos with enough peach-ish or brown-ish colors got nuked for “displaying nudity”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An Apple fan says they lost '20 years of digital life' after using an Apple gift card⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been locked out of mine. I called Apple and had the most ridiculous customer support interaction of my life. I screen shared with the person, showed them what was happening, they saw the error, read it out loud and then just… Said nothing was wrong and that I had access to the account. Despite having just seen for themselves that I didn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US demands access to tourists' social media histories⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Showing up at the airport with my file cabinet full of old memes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Didn’t the owner of the_donald try to close it down himself, only to be told by the admins that he couldn’t because it brought too much traffic to the site? Or am I thinking of that KotakuInAction sub?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The most important issue facing the world: Someone might be jerking off in the privacy of their own home.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Father I cannot click the book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, children might get the idea that it’s okay to slingshot birds at pigs if they’re allowed to download apps!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t want to meet it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’ve deleted a lot of comments for someone who doesn’t want to hide anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube will start using AI to guess your age.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember when they first rolled out the “made for kids” video designation, “Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared” (a horror video) was labeled as children’s content by the AI until enough actual users had pointed out the error on Twitter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lead⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Explains why the face is too large.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok To Be Sold To Trump’s Right Wing Billionaire Buddies And Converted Into A Propaganda Mill⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Myself and most of my family are fleeing on Wednesday, and I’m still worried that this infection will spread to where we’re going. They want this to be global.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I got my 15 year old account permanently banned for filing one report against a user who was stalking my profile to call me slurs. (This was “abusing the report button”, apparently.) Everyone in my household got their accounts banned alongside mine. It’s very strange how the site is being run now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bash Americans again⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump made it great, but Biden and woke already made it so un-great that the greatness hasn’t all trickled down yet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t watched YouTube much since they broke the search. And that’s far from the only thing they broke, it’s just what stopped making the site very worthwhile to me. I’m sure I’m not the only one who’s significantly cut down or stopped using it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's been downhill since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the last normal year was either 2012 or 2013.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube is now flagging accounts on Premium family plans that aren't in the same household⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Go on vacation? Believe it or not, banned.