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So lately I've been listening to YouTube on my phone.
I just put on some music while cooking or taking a shower when I don't have a decent setup.
On my computer I'm running uBlock (and before that adblock) so I haven't seen ads in years.
But on my phone I have them again.
FOUR MINUTE ADS!!!   
They aren't so much ads, I guess, but you do see a "skip this ad" button.
Unfortunately, it's a little hard to skip when my hands are covered with whatever I'm about to eat in ten minutes.
Who the hell comes up with these FOUR minute interruptions!?
That's about as long, or longer, than whatever song I was about to listen to.
FOUR FRIGGIN MINUTES!!!  
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Download the MVPS host file and block those servers on the system level. It is nonsense to download ads and have an adblocker refuse them after, that's just wasting bandwidth. To the website it will simply appear to be a connection-problem (ad-server is down).
I would also like to remind you that this needs to be done for each machine that you use before it can be considered a "secure machine".
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They need to make adblock smarter again, too many sites detect it's in play and complain, nuisance having to delete elements from the page to get to the content (if it's worthwhile).
Waiting for an adblock that can detect/fool the adblock detectors or block the adblock blockers.
Sin tack
the any key okay
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YouTube has paid subscriptions now. They are trying to make your experience so aggravating, that you will pay the monthly subscription fee for the "Ad-free" experience.
YouTube Red - YouTube[^]
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The only problem with everyone using adblockers is one of simple economics. Everything on the internet that is "free" actually has to be paid for somewhere, and advertisers pay for much of it. Block all the ads and these companies will stop paying, with the result being that all these free services will suddenly become chargeable. As the old saying goes: "you pay your money and take your choice": pay nothing and the number of choices get fewer.
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And the only problem with that is that we pay anyway. With our time, our bandwidth and (worst of all) with a 'tax' those companies add on everything you buy from them.
'Free' stuff is an illusion, including 'free' OS upgrades. They don't do that because they are such nice people. They want to make money, which is absolutely ok. I only prefer to pay for what I want and not 'free' at all cost.
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This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: Everything on the internet that is "free" actually has to be paid for somewhere
Don't confuse thieves with facts. 
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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We.Don't.Care.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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We all get that if we aren't paying for a product, the product is us, and we're being sold to advertisers. It's how all 'free' entertainment, publishing, and broadcasting works.
I almost bought a refurbished Dell desktop, but then they told me that 'people also bought' an ink cartridge and a breadmaker. So I didn't.
I went to a real store and bought lumber, concrete mix, a shovel, and grass seed instead - which could be irrelevant, or frightening.
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YouTube Red?
I know of RedTube, but that's something else (it's a pr0n site for those who are wondering).
Anyway RedYouTube Red isn't available in the Netherlands
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Sander Rossel wrote: I just put on some music while cooking or taking a shower
Don't be cheap! Buy the music that you want to listen to. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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Oh, I do that!
But I can't buy everything and not everything can be bought.
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The problem of "Malvertising" is also on the rise too, Legit sites serving up malware thru Ads.
Also some sites have so may flashy, blinky, Video, PopUp, PopUnder, Hidden Iframe. Etc that you can not even view the "Content" you went there for to start with.
And they wonder "Why" people use Ad Blockers. 
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Not to point out the obvious, but you realise that someone, somewhere, is paying for the music, the hosting, the infrastructure to serve the music and the bandwidth to get it to your ISP (and obviously you pay for the bandwidth to get it from your ISP to your device).
If you don't contribute something then you're asking someone else to pay for you.
4 minute ads, though, are dumb. Ads that are simply annoying and pointless are dumb. Ads that are off topic and of not of interest to you are pointless (but not necessarily dumb). Ads that provide you with information that's actually useful are a good thing.
So there's a balance here and unfortunately marketing people often tend to want to go for the cheapest, loudest shot they can to hit their performance goals ("clicks") instead of taking the time to actually be informative and useful and hit their company's real goal (sales to happy customers). Making this harder is people don't want to be targeted (even if it's totally anonymous targeting) yet they get militant about ads that are off-topic.
This is a really, really important conversation that everyone would rather not have. It's actually fundamental to the future of the web. Someone, somewhere, pays. That "someone" will, always, eventually, end up being the consumer. It's just a matter of "how".
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Yeah, I realize someone has to pay for everything.
However, no matter how much advertisements you're going to throw at me I'm not going to click that link or buy that product.
So what's the point of those ads, except keeping me from what I really want (in case of YouTube, the video)?
Right now I get a lot of Heineken commercials. Yes, I know Heineken. If I order a beer it's probably a Heineken and it sure as hell isn't for me because I DON'T DRINK BEER AT ALL!
Do advertisers pay per view or click?
If it's per view I get it, if it's per click they haven't made a single penny from me...
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Chris Maunder wrote: This is a really, really important conversation that everyone would rather not have. It's actually fundamental to the future of the web. Someone, somewhere, pays. That "someone" will, always, eventually, end up being the consumer. It's just a matter of "how".
I remember Internet before it become ad ridden clusterf*** known as Web 2.0, I'm fine with going back to that.
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We need a TrumpBlocker app.
Sick to death with seeing or hearing about him everywhere...
modified 11-Jun-17 15:58pm.
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I was once watching a documentary on youtube with autoplay turned on. It went to the next video that was very interesting. played for about 25 minutes before I noticed the little 'skip ad' button in the corner. Turned out to be a 45 minute ad that was far more interesting then the video it was hosted in.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Sander Rossel wrote: I'm running uBlock (and before that adblock)
Years ago, we called that stealing cable from your neighbor.
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I've always just used Raspbian, but there is very little unique to that OS that means much to me. Oh, that really cool Scratch programming toy, really good, but I stopped rolling like that a while ago.
Ubuntu is always my goto for VMs on my PC, and I see now there is Ubuntu Core for IoT enrolling your Pi, and the more common, and older, Ubuntu MATE. This looks a lot less IoT and more Ubuntu.
What's your choice/collection of Pi OSs?
Immanentize the Eschaton!
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Started with Rapsbian, but DietPi at the moment. Still want to try RISC OS, just to see if it works 
I've heard that Win10 might also work on the Pi, but I'm not going to try that.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Tried RISC OS, no Lander! but seems to be awkward with only a two button mouse.
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Raspbian for me. I have about a dozen devices, consisting of about half of the all models ever available.
I'm retired. There's a nap for that...
- Harvey
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Me too. I wanted Ubuntu MATE, but more importantly I want to be using and learning by Pi. After one or two failed attempts to get that to boot off the SD, I went write back to NOOBS, and chose to install Raspbian. Within 20 minutes of giving up on Ubuntu, I had a running Pi.
Immanentize the Eschaton!
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I've started getting popups (winten) regarding some kind of preparation for the coming Creator's Update. I've finally looked at a summary of what's new with it. Mostly stuff I probably won't use...I see they're still pushing Cortana.
The Timeline feature looks interesting. Anyone here brave enough to try it out? Cornelius?
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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