if you don't get youtube premium your grandmother deserves to die.
Someone here recommended youtube vanced and it's been a fucking game changer. I have sculpted my entire internet activity around avoidance of ads so much so that it's genuinely infuriating when I get ads when I'm watching through the apps on my television. TV ad block when?
TV ad block when
If your TV is getting internet via your wifi router, there's a thing called Pi-Hole which is supposed to hook up to your router and stop ads from going to every device on the network.
Super easy to setup too, it serves as a Domain Name Server for your home network (the thing that tells your browser that [xyz.com] is at IP address [1.2.3.xxx]) so blocking is super robust because it doesn't allow known malicious domains to resolve. Youtube on a smart tv might still have ads, as Google started serving videos and ads from the same servers to prevent people from selectively blocking.
Hulu did something similar where they started serving pre-roll logos (FX, Fox, ABC, etc.) From their ad server and would only continue the show if that video resolved. So your mileage may vary, but it'll still block tens of thousands of malicious connections
sounds like if grandma went veg this whole situation could have been avoided
I’ve seen it before but it’s the first one that goaded YouTube into a response afaik
Not a big fan of the original tweet because the implication that someone's grandma starts choking and their first thought is to look up a YouTube video is kinda ridiculous
Setting aside the merits of frantically searching for help online when in a crisis, there's a point about how ads aren't just a benign inconvenience.
I need help doing something - anything - and if I try to query it online I'm forced to wade through a layer of well-financed scams or just a blizzard of bullshit before getting what I was actually looking for.
Like, Google has the tech to recognize the most likely thing you need. But it's not tailored to deliver that. It's tailored to deliver what generates maximum revenue, functionally at your expenses.
Yeah for sure, the idea itself is solid but the specific example of looking for a video on how to do a heimlich maneuver while grandma's turning blue in the face is kinda ridiculous to me
It's ridiculous until you're in the crisis and you need the information asap
Then you Google it, which does in fact immediately bring up a quick explanation of how to do it and some diagrams
