Her Royal Fluffiness Celestia, Princess of Cake
Louis Rossmann
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Comments by "Her Royal Fluffiness Celestia, Princess of Cake" (@CakePrincessCelestia) on "YouTube's adblock war is backfiring in the worst way possible 🤣" video.
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0:27 They're going to war with their customers, especially the paying ones. I mean there's a reason you stopped paying for Premium and they at least drove me to give it a try with a free month, I mean, why not? Well, I can tell you my experiences with it. (skip the next paragraph for a TL;DR, it's basically an introductionary preface)
I use Firefox, an actual browser. Nightly, to be exact - for one single reason. Way back in the day, FF was the ultimate browser for a customized and personalized experience (after having used CrazyBrowser and MyIE2 before) and one of the main things about that was having addons / extensions. Well, that took a massive hit when they changed to Quantum, which was a pain in the plot to make it as close to what it was before. Mainly because TabMixPlus didn't work anymore and was then discontinued by the devs. Well, switched to Simple Tab Groups and a $#!+ton of UI CSS hacks, about:config entries and whatnot, but I was happy with the result - well, until Mozilla decided to change another thing. Until Quantum, you only could install addons that were compatible for the specific version of FF you had and often the devs didn't keep up with updating their plugin xmls, so the addons kept getting disabled. Luckily it was possible to edit those and I basically went with editing so they'd be compatible up to Firefox 69.420 - when the version numbers still were single figure. And that worked fine. Well, with Quantum and WebExtensions, that changed. Massively. Because Mozilla suddenly had a way since somewhere around version 80-90ish to just remotely invalidate and disable addons on your install / profile if they thought it wasn't "safe enough", which then happened to a lot of addons that worked well, but didn't get frequent updates. Took me a while to find a solution, but it is one. Well, it was simple: They don't do that on Nightly. And there we are. Mostly happy with a few shenanigans going on every now an then that get fixed within a few days and actually, I had wrecked profiles like 3 or 4 times since early 2020, but I always was able to recover everything just because I keep making local backups every other week or so and know how to get the shattered pieces of the profiles together again somehow. BTW, I'm running a portable installation that I can conveniently just quickly move over to my laptop or another rig in the house in case I need it there, so I don't need to use any cloud sync garbage to have the same browser environment anywhere. I might digress, which I already did, but even more, but guess what? Have you ever tried copying a Google *bleeping* Chrome profile over to another rig, or let alone just from an installed browser into a "portable", or even just moving the "portable" one to another drive? I can tell you why I "air quoted" the word portable in my previous sentence: Because there is no portable Chrome anymore. Google decided to make the profiles self-destruct for some arbitrary and unfathomable reason once you move the thing. Great, isn't it? You know what, Google? *bleep* you, up yours!
TL;DR of the above: Google Chrome is NOT a browser and FF Nightly is the way to go. Now guess what happens if you add YT Premium, which is Google's child. They don't want you to use "enemy" browsers apparently. As soon as I activated my trial period, I noticed a few things:
First of all, the UI is completey *bleeped* up. I am visually impaired and run my YT at a zoom level that I defaulted to 170% in my FF. Everytime I load up a YT video, all the Super Thanks, Share, Clip etc buttons are overlapping into the description box. That didn't happen without Premium and it doesn't happen in a private window that doesn't have my login. Great! Well done, Google! You had one *bleeping* job!
Second: I love to comment, usually with timestamps, just to get the context readily availabe for anyone who might actually wanna waste their time to read my pamplets at all. For doing to I have to pause the video, Alt Tab to an actual editor (NEVER write a comment or post that's longer than just a sentence in a browser window. Things do crash at times! Also, save early, save often!), hack my thoughts into the thing, save, Alt Tab back and resume watching. Now the thing is: Anyone not using a phricken phone probably does the same which Matt "Wags" Wagner of Eagle Dynamics loves to tell us: "Hit Space Bar To Continue." Well, and to pause. Now guess what? In the 17 *bleeping* years of *bleeping* YouTube, that never was an issue. And it's the *bleeping* go-to standard. Whenever I come across another video player that doesn't do that, I'm raging. Everyone is raging, actually. Now here's the thing: Paying for YouTube *bleeping* Premium, *bleeping* Google puts that feature behind a *bleeping* dice roll that is only successful on a *bleeping* crit! What the actual, Google? Why does the *bleeping* thing stop working once I use a paid service? Do you actually want be to privateer this and keep using ad blockers to circumvent monetarization? Don't you want to provide me a service that is better than the free, ad-supported experience and incentivize me that way to pay and keep paying for Premium? Don't you even want the revenue you get from that? If you can say no to any of those question, please just fix your leaking ship, 'cos it is currently sinking. Literally, get your ship together!
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7:49 Welcome to the internet. Full with people that need to slow down or even stop and watch when a crash happened on the opposing side of the highway.
9:57 B.A.S.E.D.
11:52 3 to 4 dollars for a coffee at Starbucks? It's been ages when I was at one the last time, but it was 8 bucks, actually. And that wasn't even something special... but well, there's a reason you'll find all those Apple Hipsters right there. Because they can have coffee for Apple Prices.
12:05 I totally don't get the people that are OK with that. And I really facehoofed hard recently when Linus was shittalking other email providers and why people just wouldn't use G-Mail. You just said exactly why noone should have ever used that in the first place. They can read everything of your correspondence. Everything. And they do. Because otherwise their ad personalization wouldn't work that way.
13:13 lol.
13:55 Best "segway" to the anti-sponsor! :D
23:54 Totally based... and they all have garbage like that, it's just not always as obvious. Just look at Microsoft with their Eternal (File) Explorer Alzheimer's ever since Vista. Or the "keeps scrolling the folder tree up" bug that's been there since 7. Or the *bleep* that's going on on Android with the constant app-killing in background, just to save a few extra % on the battery which goes as far as killing the notification services or even stuff that runs in the foreground more often than not. And here I might repeat myself again: Google sucks! Oh, and, before I forget it: Windows Search. Just that. You all know it. You all know it sucks. Even Microsoft does. But they're the only ones on the entire planet who don't care...
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