Youtube: “GOD PEOPLE KEEP SKIPPING ADS, WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP THIS LOSS OF REVENUE?!”

Viewers: “Maybe have standards for length and content and moderate the platform to prevent malicious actors?”

Youtube: “I KNOW, I’LL JUST MAKE FORCED ADS LONGER AND MORE OBNOXIOUS!”

Viewers: “JUST MODERATE YOUR FUCKING PLATFORM, YOU HAVE THE MONEY AND RESOURCES TO FUCKING DO IT”

Youtube: “Users are just so selfish and entitled, trying to skip ads…”

Viewers: " Fuck it installs ublock origin

I’m sure he appreciates you rushing to his defense trying to somehow justify it.

Still, if this TV came out tomorrow and Wendell from Level1techs said “your Linux pc can get 4k, 120hz, HDR FreeSync out of this” and showed it working, $3500 dollars wouldn’t stop me from buying it.

I wish I was this rich to impulse buy something that expensive because a man on the internet said something positive abouti t.

What you say is true but it’s off topic because that’s not the current situation. What we’re actually seeing right now is that parents literally do not want to take their devices away from their kids and they don’t want to supervise their kids. It really is that simple.

So saying its a parental responsibility is off topic, and what we should focus on is… parental responsibility.

The typical under-13 social media user is not a sneaky kid. It’s a family making a decision together.

Yep… Theres an idiot in my family that gave their grandkids unrestricted, flagship phones, with full social media account access, at 7 years old.

And no, they are not too old to understand technology. They perfectly understand technology, the internet, and everything else. They are just stupid.

Its on the grandparents for doing it. its on the parents for not taking the fuckin phones away. and its also on social media companies for being algorithmic predators.

Saying stop ignoring parental responsibility, doesnt mean ignore everyone elses culpability.

Teachers should be legally allowed to posses a metal gauntlet for backhanding idiot parents across the face.

Why is everyone forgetting the parents in this shit. They are the ones giving their kids access to this shit, not monitoring and moderating their access to this shit, and letting screens do the job of raising their kids instead of doing it themselves.

Googles half the malware themselves.

Cant install (random app name here, since we cant use X anymore as a generic thanks to musk and his 13 year old obsession with naming everything X) app, without having 1500 different google bullshit data trackers installed.

You are either going to donate, or spread word to others, who will pick it up and donate themselves.

Money still gets made, its just less opportunistic and predatory, and more a reward from those who can afford, to fund for those who cant.

The North Dakota and Tennesee officers involved in this need to be arrested, and convicted, for kidnapping, abuse of authority, elder abuse, and whatever fucking other charge they can be trumped up on.

if you’re paying more than what most people make a month for a fuckin phone, then you should be able to do what the fuck ever you damn well fuckin please with the phone.

No I dont own these afflicted phones, I’m not that rich, I’m just talking on principle

And the kids were hyped over it, like i said.

never know, you’d be surprised the assumptions youtube makes about you based on what you watch.

I watch a couple fishing channels, and it seems that anything outdoorsy youtube automatically registers as conservative republican, and increases the right wing/prageru propaganda significantly during the times I dont have adblock (When I used to use xbox to watch youtube on the big TV, I replaced it with an old laptop entirely to get adblocking running)

and a mutli-hour ad. Who the fuck would watch that, who the fuck would pay to put a multi-hour ad on an 8m video that nobody is going to watch?

People who are hoping to get a captured audience that cant get up and click the skip button for whatever reason.

but like, man, like… its totally new, like, and like, totally amazing man. you just, like, cant comprehend, man!

the 1% is the people who say “well, sure, 99% is a scam, but theres a legit 1% thats totally real!”

“the ads help us make more money above and beyond all the apps who’ve paid us to pre-load their shit on our product”

i dont have an LG, but I’ve only had to firmware update 1 TV in like… the past 13 years, and that was because it had a horrible issue with the image vertically splitting in half and green corruption across the bottom. Which makes you think hardware failure, but it wasnt, the firmware update 100% fixed it for the rest of its life.

So unless you are facing a major, catastrophic issue like that, I’d say fuck updates.

For now. That can change at any time with an update.