Modern Web Woes - I'm mad at the internet

Sometimes I even miss the slow loadspeeds of dial-up. I know a certain elderly fellow who blames instant communication for the rise in low attention-spans and dopamine junkie behavior among our current generation, and I've come to respect the fact that he's right on these things
 
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Seems more and more YT videos keep getting categorized as "YouTube Kids", which means comments are disabled.

(and "related videos" to any video tagged as "YT Kids" are always loudly colorful little kid stuff)
 
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Its a real meme point where a couple scam webssites (they regenerate a carbon copy every couple of days with a similar html) that I follow who sell discount electronics that evolves over time now have a banner saying they support ukraine and won't sell to ruskies.

That means the testing they have done means they can scam more suckers by buying into certain demographics politics lmao
 
Skitarii said:
Sometimes I even miss the slow loadspeeds of dial-up. I know a certain elderly fellow who blames instant communication for the rise in low attention-spans and dopamine junkie behavior among our current generation, and I've come to respect the fact that he's right on these things
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having a slow internet really made visiting each page feel like a big deal, when tabs were starting to become a mainstream browser thing i wasn't excited for the multitasking potential, but the easy ability to have a cached version of pages that took me a good 10-30 seconds to load on my shitbox internet.
still wouldn't want to go back to that though as i'm quite certain that i would go insane, especially now that most websites have bloated themselves up that even my current internet connection suffers trying to load them and how much of the web now focuses around high definition streaming content.
 
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RSLUG30 said:
having a slow internet really made visiting each page feel like a big deal, when tabs were starting to become a mainstream browser thing i wasn't excited for the multitasking potential, but the easy ability to have a cached version of pages that took me a good 10-30 seconds to load on my shitbox internet.
still wouldn't want to go back to that though as i'm quite certain that i would go insane, especially now that most websites have bloated themselves up that even my current internet connection suffers trying to load them and how much of the web now focuses around high definition streaming content.
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I don't know how people can browse current year websites without uBlock's large media filter on slower connections. Streaming is fine because you choose to click play. Some assholes put stock videos into web page backgrounds and headers, that's the really annoying stuff.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Whenever a YT video is labeled "YouTube Kids", comments are disabled.
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ToroidalBoat said:
Seems more and more YT videos keep getting categorized as "YouTube Kids", which means comments are disabled.

(and "related videos" to any video tagged as "YT Kids" are always loudly colorful little kid stuff)
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Why is this a web woe for you? Isn't youtube kids just a kind of walled garden for kids uploading videos that they created after the pedo scandal?
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
Why is this a web woe for you?
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Because stuff that isn't necessarily "just kids stuff" can be labeled "YouTube Kids", meaning comments are disabled.

So if something is BS but labeled YTK, people can't call it out in the comments. Like a fake cheat in a vidya, for example.

(and of course dislikes are invisible without browser extensions)
 
ToroidalBoat said:
Because stuff that isn't necessarily "just kids stuff" can be labeled "YouTube Kids", meaning comments are disabled.

So if something is BS but labeled YTK, people can't call it out in the comments. Like a fake cheat in a vidya, for example.

(and of course dislikes are invisible without browser extensions)
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Yeah, but, like what? I'm not accusing you of anything this is honestly mystifying to me.
I google youtube kids and this is what I get.
youtubekids_wtf.JPG

Can you provide a video link to youtube kids that you would like to comment on because I really don't understand how this is an issue.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
I really don't understand how this is an issue.
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I'd have to go back and see examples of something that used to be not YTK but is now, like a SpngeBob meme clip.

It's not that big of a deal really though, really just a minor annoyance.

(also I like reading comments because they're usually funny or witty to me)
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
I'd have to go back and see examples of something that used to be not YTK but is now, like a SpngeBob meme clip.

It's not that big of a deal really though, really just a minor annoyance.

(also I like reading comments because they're usually witty)
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That would be nice, the only thing I can think of (and it's obviously not a youtube kids video) is this.
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
lol

BTW what's this scandal that happened?

(I thought "YouTube Kids" was just a content rating thing, not some kind of special program.)
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I think the scandal was covered either in a Defranco or Crowder video, one of them might have been the whistleblower, I don't remember. What I remember from that expose is that pedos left timestamps in the comments and the immediate action from youtube was to yeet comments.

edit: still, what youtube kids videos would you like to comment on?
 
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ToroidalBoat said:
Like this one: SpongeBob's 7 WEENIEST Moments 🌭 - YouTube

If it had funny comments before, they've been disabled now.
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Googling it they disabled comments in 2019 and that video was published in 2021, even the somewhat funny video about COPPA I posted was from late 2019 when lots of people were nervous about how their content looked(I watch people play Mario and they were shook because it's a game for children). So that Spongebob clip could never have any comments.

Doing a search of "spongebob funny" on reg youtube gave me this
scoppa.JPG

I have never watched Spongebob, I don't actually know what it is about, but I suspect that if that content is made for children the rest is for children as well. So Spongebob content being locked to Youtube kids while some is only allowed on youtube proper seems weird.

It's weird, I'm tangentially aware of Youtube Kids in the same way I'm aware of Tanzania.
 
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Smaug's Smokey Hole said:
I have never watched Spongebob, I don't actually know what it is about, but I suspect that if that content is made for children the rest is for children as well.
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SB has been around long enough that people who saw the oldest episodes as kids when they first aired are now adults.

The older episodes are considered good and meme-y, while the newer ones are widely seen as crap - like The Simpsons.

And yeah, the "it's now YT Kids so comments are disabled" thing is not a big deal really.
 
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