NightOwl

Side loading is potentially dangerous though, so warnings are good. Especially for average person who will attempt side loading not knowing the permissions they are giving to the app. I don't see a problem with the current set up, since even with it people install sketchy apks.

Yeah, there's no proper screening process and companies aren't help liable for malicious advertisements. It's the Wild west out there, and companies take money from anyone due to there being no consequences. Internet advertising has no proper screening process like network television.

Could just demonitize those type of videos, which would have an impact on submissions. That goes for lot of platforms that have a monetizing incentive to get views. And so many don't bother deactivating the accounts either when videos cross the line as if they want to encourage emulation among the population.

I really can't stand requests for likes, subscribes, notification bell at all. I actually hate it more than ads, and have backed out of many a video that didn't happen to have the segment flagged at the beginning.

Look I hate YouTube ads too, and ads in general, but let's say every user of a service is like you.

I understand the message about needing to fund services to exist, but that stance I feel doesn't always really work too well. Since if other users were like them then it'd also mean there might be a lot of stuff that doesn't exist anymore which could be a pro like microtransactions ceasing to exist and move to subscription model failing.

And for YouTube might be completely different where depending on their taste maybe click baits turned people away if the person hated them, so those don't exist. And long winded videos attempting to take advantage of the algorithm failed if they were someone who didn't like videos that wasted their time, and everyone is like them.

Reddit might still support third party apps if everyone was like them, and lemmy bigger. That's why if everyone was like them argument is just a weird one, since it turns minority actions into a majority and changes way too many things to focus on one singular thing.

My favorite aspect of sponsorblock is blocking the incredibly repetitive ubiquitous script that every single channel copies of like, subscribe, ring the notification bell.

Thank you me for using Adblock. You are welcome me. Couldn't have done it without me. I am my hero. Thanks me.

It pushed me more towards degoogling. Was already using newpipe on Android and ignoring the YouTube app, and now I'm on freetube on desktop. No need for Google account anymore to look at the feed I want.

I really like freetube on desktop, since I have liked the move towards less dependency on accounts. And freetube let's me have a custom feed without needing an account.

And I love the built in sponsorblock and channel blocking feature too.

Constant vigilance

Yeah, things that weren't called AI years back are just getting called AI now.

I'm surprised that government devices aren't heavily locked down so users only have the bare minimum apps and lock installs. Even weirder that government officials would be allowed to use the device for personal use. That's how I'd think work devices would be handled to try to reduce attack vectors.