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Cake day: October 4th, 2023

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  • The recommendation is not “woah go listen to this, so insightful!”

    The recommendation is “they attempt to articulate their mentality, and it serves as a study of cognitive dissonance.”

    You arent being told to go listen to a lecture, and study the words of a master.

    Youre being told to go observe a massively influencial mentality in the wild, and study them in a contained environment.

    Its like being told to read the bible. Its not because you should be christian. Its because this book influences the world around you heavily, and you should understand it.



  • Even if we pretend youtube isnt actually just a data farm that alphabet sells under a different company name to avoid directly saying youtube sells your data (hint: this is where the majority of youtube money comes from), it doesnt really matter if enough consumers decide the ads arent worth the content.

    Youtube isnt required living, its a very nice convenience. If it stops being convenient, people will do literally anything else. Its already only convenient enough for a lot via ad blockers. The worse it gets, the more leave ads behind. Making it worse worse doesnt bring people back.


  • … What?

    Youtube has to detect every type of adblocker.

    Ublock origin only needs to find 1 way around their detection.

    And even if ublock ever gets stumped, a thousand people are trying to find their own version of 1 way around detection.

    Youtube is playing whack a mole against a thousand moles, and just one unbopped mole destroys their hammer and they need to go craft a new one from scratch.

    The moles win every time.