• hOrni@lemmy.world
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    8 days ago

    I remember a post on Reddit about someone putting an ad brake in the middle of a “white noise for sleeping” video.

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    7 days ago

    At first we thought internet will be a basically free and easily accessible knowledge base of all the things.

    But then extreme monetisation & financial interests were like ‘abso-fucking-lutely not’ & proceeded to monopolise and segregate the inter of our nets.

    Long live Wiki and all fossy things!

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      7 days ago

      What are you talking about? There are fewer ads for this long video. It’s for your benefit. Obviously.

      edit: and we’re adding randomly timed “skip” buttons at various points in the ads to make sure that you can skip when you want! Not to make sure your eyes are on screen at all times.

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    7 days ago

    Dammit, I came up with a Halloween costume too late. The plan would’ve been to dress up as a ‘like’ button, and get drunk.

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      7 days ago

      Because spider.

      (The artist hides a spider in their comic)

  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
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    7 days ago

    watching latest Adam Conover video

    Adam: “We’re about to be repeatedly punched in the throat by capitalism. Which brings me to today’s sponsor…”

    Later in the video

    Adam: “Which reminds me that today’s video is also sponsored by…”

    Me: “Well fuck… I wasn’t expecting YOU to punch me in the throat repeatedly with capitalism…”

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      7 days ago

      get sponsorblock look at video over half the runtime is automatically skipped for being non-video garbage

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        7 days ago

        It’s an old meme that states the first 30% of every YouTube video is useless and can be skipped without consequence. It’s a constant because it doesn’t matter if the video is 3 or 300 seconds long; The first 30% can always be skipped without missing anything important.

        IIRC, it started on Reddit when a user named Wadsworth wrote about it in one of the AskReddit threads about life hacks.