You don’t get to say “No” to YouTube, Microsoft, or the thousands of websites that ask to you to give them your email. There’s only a “Maybe later”.
Uhm, that’ s just capitalism in a nutshell.
Everything is just routing around people telling you “no.”
Government regulation is literally the epitome of being told “no” and they spend all the money in the fucking world to force it into a “yes.”
I mean, these people are so far up their own asses, I’ve seen ad industry people say seriously that people avoiding ads is breaking a contract. The genuine attitude that if they paid for the ad, in real life or online, that we owe them our eyes on it because they spent money on it. They’re so far out of touch that they can’t even face small risk.
Is it really a shock that a lot of people in corporate America are actual fucking rapists?
Gates, Weinstein, Musk, Trump, McMahon, I could go on… Plenty of these guys are well documented as not being able to take “no” for an answer, even if there’s no evidence they raped anyone (Gates, for example).
I sometimes open the official YouTube app and set it to autoplay and mute while doing dishes, so they can be happy that I watched their fucking ads.
I fear that at some point the feds will knock to make sure I’m not distracted while an ad plays.
No means no but ask me later means ask me later. You never said no. Source: the option doesn’t exist
I should try that when dating to see how long it takes for a court order to arrive.
Learning from the best
Use inspect element to change the button from “ask me later” to “no” and then click it
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Firefox mobile>ad blocker>YouTube.com
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And SmartTubeNext if you have an Android TV.
You still have to do all that patching and stuff. I do enough IT for work, I won’t wanna always be doing it at home.
You just have to do it once in a few months, and recent versions made it way easier to just download the correct apk and patch it quickly.
Firefox mobile sucks. I use Brave as my browser (yes I know what I’m doing I don’t want a lecture on this) and Grayjay as my YouTube app.
(yes I know what I’m doing I don’t want a lecture on this)
I don’t want someone explaining why Brave is bad, I’ve heard it all. I like it
The only reason why I went with FF/FF clones is because I wanted to completely degoogle myself. But a few websites require a chromium base, so I have Brave on standby for that. It’s a good browser.
Okay. Fair enough
Very few, if any tech companies care about consent.
As Louis Rossman says, they have a rapist mentality.
The way you say no is by not visiting the site.
Not just Youtube. Google is! Ever try to use Gmail or Google Drive or Google Docs in a non-Chrome browser? That’s another level of harassment!
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Yes, every day. I don’t know what you’re referring to.
They delete like 99% of comments
Imo this should actually be illegal. I’m find with reasonable promotional displays and offers, but there needs to be some legal option to permanently decline. Having to tell YouTube “no” literally hundreds of times is legitimately ludicrous
