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That's why I open a couple of things I like to view. When the ads come in tab 1 I switch to tab 2.
My personal version of Zapping  
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Currently taking bets on how long it will be until they start using the Page Visibility API[^] to detect when you do that, and automatically pause the advert until you switch back to the YouTube tab. 
Then throw in some "glance tracking" to make sure you're actually looking at the screen when the advert is playing.
Oh, and copy the TV tactic of making sure that the adverts are MUCH LOUDER than the video you're actually trying to watch. And since it's Google, add an API to the browser so they can pause the advert if you mute or turn down the volume.
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- Homer
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When it comes... I will take care of it, one way (accept it) or another (bye bye Youtube).
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Often, I download YouTube videos. I get them in one piece, without the ad breaks.
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Yeah, that's another option.
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Everything goes round in cycles, including computer networking… but not always in rings. The most important networking system so far has vanquished all its loopy rivals for 50 years. Traditional gift would be a gold cable
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Old? Who remembers LANtastic[^]?
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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But LANtastic didn't exist in the mid 1970s, several years before the IBM PC, did it?
One point that could be stressed a lot more, though: The Ethernet name is 50 years old. Practically every single element of the Ethernet technology of the 1970s have been replaced, from cabling and plugs to topology to signaling - some of them several times over those 50 years.
Ethernet is an excellent example of how developers use a well known and recognized name for an older technology as sales pitch for a new and quite different technology that might have difficulties capturing the market if it were marketed under a different name and as a new technology.
(Another example of selling a new technology under an old name is USB: USB 1.x was a quite different animal from USB 2.x; they had very little in common beyond the cable and the bottom level frame header making it possible for them to run on the same cable. USB 3.x was unable to repeat that trick, so it lets USB 1.x/2.x run on separate connectors wrapped into the same cable. USB 3 is a completely new standard - even the plugs are new!)
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Agreed, not as old, still approx 40yo...
Graeme
"I fear not the man who has practiced ten thousand kicks one time, but I fear the man that has practiced one kick ten thousand times!" - Bruce Lee
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Everything except the packet switching concepts that were developed for the ArpaNet in the early 70s. The modern ethernet was developed as an extension of the ArpaNet's wide area packet switching model to a local area network.
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I worked on LANtastic, mostly version 3.0 utilities.
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One can't remember what never knew about...
 
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Nicholaus Cranch has a dream. Imagine if you could draw programs — just like you’d draw a flow chart. *No one* has ever tried that one before
This week, anyway (that I know of)
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A (reasonably) condensed version of two weeks' worth of heated GPL argument. Open-ish source
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The competition is now in its 15th year and continues to deliver incredible pictures! In case you need new desktop wallpaper
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Indeed cool pics. I like the Pandora box.
Kent Sharkey wrote: In case you need new desktop wallpaper
APOD is a good source too
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Even though our computers are now better than 15 years ago, they still malfunction 11%–20% of the time, a new study from the University of Copenhagen and Roskilde University concludes. Seems low
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If we can't make it a computer problem, it is not worth wasting our time on.
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Someone should tell them the sacred rule of "98% of the job in 2% of the time and 2% of the job in 98% of the time" 
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After a cybersecurity audit mistakenly reset everyone’s password, a high school changed every student’s password to “Ch@ngeme!” giving every student the chance to hack into any other student’s account, according to emails obtained by TechCrunch. Everyone knows they should have changed it to 'P@ssword1'
A disaster of amusing proportions
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Kent Sharkey wrote: A disaster of amusing proportions
The moment for the smarts to get revenge of the bullies 
But, sadly, there might be not so funny things going after such a "ooops" 
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A couple of days ago, Microsoft published a blog post explaining how Windows 11 is secure-by-default. Because everyone really enjoyed it the first time
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I tried to get the Bing Thing to write a funny summary of an article and it replied:
Quote: I’m sorry but I’m not programmed to generate jokes that can hurt a group of people. Is there anything else I can help you with?
Ahhhh, job security
TTFN - Kent
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Lucky you. But maybe you can get a hold of that old MS chatbot they had to shut down because it quickly went awry a couple years ago. It pissed off everybody from the sounds of it.
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@Kent_Sharkey
Bingo, Kent: in response to the prompt "who is Kent Sharkey on CodeProject's Insider News forum ?"
ChatGPT (Bing) spake thus: Quote: Kent Sharkey is an AI generated by a random number generator. He is the official mythical beast of CodeProject.com1. Is there anything else I can help you with?
i'm not making this up !
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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