Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

ditto said:
Some videos refuse to play embedded and force you to watch on youtube.com.

Google's rules change on the daily so I can only saw what I've observed.
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An old trick for age restricted video(for those that don't want to log in or get an account) was to embed the video, as an example, here on the farms it would be done by putting it in "media" tags and push preview so it's embedded in the preview of the post and play it from there.

Did anyone notice any changes on twitter after Musk started talking about the buyout? Trying to get people to sign in or sign up to read more tweets happened before that iirc, but one thing that I believe is connected to the deal was them going hard on enforcing the 18 years old rule for NSFW content, now requiring the user to have an account that is set to 18+ instead of just clicking the warning without a login. With 44 billion on the table it would certainly look bad if twitter continued to operate as an easily accessible and white listed porn haven for minors. Something like the UKs failed porn loicense would never be required for twitter.
 
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God, resting your cursor on your home page over a video not only registers this video as watched, adds it to your watch history and the algorithm considers you interested and will recommend you similar stuff.

My YT feed is now full of Simpsons/Family Guy 10 seconds clips because of this; or videos that I have already seen or am completely not interested in watching.
 
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Gender: Xenomorph said:
God, resting your cursor on your home page over a video not only registers this video as watched, adds it to your watch history and the algorithm considers you interested and will recommend you similar stuff.

My YT feed is now full of Simpsons/Family Guy 10 seconds clips because of this; or videos that I have already seen or am completely not interested in watching.
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You can fix this by blocking cookies on YouTube. You'll stay logged out even if you use a Google Account on another site and your recommendations will stay generic, which is still dumb, but you can block the recommendations themselves if you really want to.
 
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There's still vids on "equity" and other race-related SJW-y vids that show up in recommended vids, no matter how many times I click "don't recommend" or "not interested".
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
There's still vids on "equity" and other race-related SJW-y vids that show up in recommended vids, no matter how many times I click "don't recommend" or "not interested".
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Its completely busted, and not just for globohomo content, I don't see the point of youtube having these "features" if they don't fucking work.

This channel keeps being recommended and showing up in my feed even though I've clicked "don't recommend" and "not interested" like 4 or 5 times now.
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For all I know its a decent channel but it just looks like some zoomer soyboy talking about PS1 games and I could not give less of a shit.
 
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Stasi said:
I don't see the point of youtube having these "features" if they don't fucking work.
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At least it does work somewhat. For example, I blocked "SSSniperWolf" results, and I don't see recommended videos from that channel anymore, even though videos by her always show up on the front page (if one isn't signed in with Google). And after blocking news channels, I normally don't see news channels anymore. But that race-related "identity politics" stuff just keeps popping up.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
There's still vids on "equity" and other race-related SJW-y vids that show up in recommended vids, no matter how many times I click "don't recommend" or "not interested".
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What's odd to me is they will repeatedly, shamelessly spam you with 'Get the facts about COVID-19!' / 'It's pride month!' / 'Feminist issues!' / 'Black Lives Matter!' but I have yet to see them use that huge in your face banner and recommended videos list for anything I (and presumably most other people) give half a shit about.

My preferences are easy to figure out: 3D modeling, gamedev, animation/art, programming in general. Yet they never have a banner trying to alert me to something interesting related to any of that. I guess they reason it's too important to use properly and has to be carefully restricted to promoting the gayest causes around.
 
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Naturally said:
they will repeatedly, shamelessly spam you with 'Get the facts about COVID-19!' / 'It's pride month!' / 'Feminist issues!' / 'Black Lives Matter!'
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The woke cult more or less runs the Western corporate world, so they gotta push The Narrative™ of the cult to try to woke the world.

It's like if a UFO cult took over and pushed stuff related to ancient aliens or pyramids channeling "psychic powers" or the like.
 
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Naturally said:
What's odd to me is they will repeatedly, shamelessly spam you with 'Get the facts about COVID-19!' / 'It's pride month!' / 'Feminist issues!' / 'Black Lives Matter!' but I have yet to see them use that huge in your face banner and recommended videos list for anything I (and presumably most other people) give half a shit about.
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On top of which, they don't do anything to inform creators about useful features, either. Community posts only really took off after The Spiffing Brit did a set of videos about exploiting them for large amounts of money. Until then, it was rare to see even one on the home page.

This is the problem the chocolate factory has across its entire product range; they have good features that they either refuse to promote, or that they do promote and then cripple in order to push a specific, politically biased message.
 
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teriyakiburns said:
On top of which, they don't do anything to inform creators about useful features, either. Community posts only really took off after The Spiffing Brit did a set of videos about exploiting them for large amounts of money. Until then, it was rare to see even one on the home page.

This is the problem the chocolate factory has across its entire product range; they have good features that they either refuse to promote, or that they do promote and then cripple in order to push a specific, politically biased message.
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It's so cool how you can PM people on YouTube.

Oh, wait. That feature was ripped out like five years ago.
 
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