#'do you not use an adblocker??' 'no... should i?' and i was like 'YES. yes you should'

[emptysekai]

guide to ad-free youtube for mobile via. youtube revanced

since youtube vance is no longer maintained and youtube is cracking down on adblockers here is how to download youtube revanced which has the best options for customising youtube features; including removing youtube shorts popups, sponsorship segments in videos, hiding unused buttons, bringing back dislikes, and more! [official revanced github]

this guide is for android only. sorry apple users idk how to help you. your device doesn't have to be rooted. even if it is, you should still be able to follow this guide. if you have youtube vanced installed, revanced shouldn't clash, so you don't have to uninstall it if you don't want to.

installation guide:

1. download all 3:

i. microg (this will let you log into your youtube account) [apk mirror] (scroll past description, download the latest one)

ii. revanced manager apk [github] (select the latest release, scroll to the bottom in assets, install the .apk file)

iii. latest youtube apk [apk mirror]

2. open revanced manager

3. select in this order: "patcher" -> "select an application" -> "storage" (note: if your phone asks you to let the app have storage access, say yes)

[id. two screenshots of the revanced manager app. there are red markings drawn overtop, indicating areas to select mentioned in step 3. the three spots are circled by a red square, an arrow pointing towards it, and a circle with a marked number to indicate the order at the end of each arrow. id end.]

4. select the youtube apk you downloaded

5. select patches. you can tap "recommended" or "default" or turn on/off patches you want

6. once you have selected, select: "done" -> "patch"

7. wait as it intialises youtube revanced. when it's done select "install" (note: if your phone gives you a warning that the app is blocked, select: "more details" -> "install anyway")

8. if this worked, you should have youtube revanced installed, and you can log in like normal. if this didn't work, read the next part.

(under the read more are troubleshooting solutions + other alternative apps)

issue a) if the botom right now says "open"

1. select: 3 dots on the top right -> "export apk"

2. save it

3. open whatever file browsing app you use (most phones should have a default one that comes pre-installed called something like "files" or "my files". if you don't have one, you can go to the play store and search "files" and pick one. if you aren't sure, i use "files by google")

4. find the exported file and install it (it will be called something like "youtube-revanced-versionnumber.apk")

5. if this worked, you should have youtube revanced installed, and you can log in like normal. if this didn't work, you can read the next part.

issue b) can't build or install youtube revanced with no option to export

1. something may have gone wrong with the file installation at some point, so try a clean start. to do this, uninstall:

i. revanced manager

ii. youtube revanced

iii. microg

iv. (optional) disable/uninstall the default youtube app

2. follow guide from step 1 again, hopefully it works. if it's still not working, you can try other alternatives. i've listed some in the next part of this post

alternatives:

libretube, newpipe, songtube, vuetube, astron, puretuber

i haven't used any of these personally, but i haven't seen any problems with them. let me know if there are and i'll remove it from the list.

you can also use youtube through your web browser with adblock add-ons. i'm not sure whether youtube has affected their mobile site though. with the firefox app you can use ublock origins (for ads) + youtube high definition (for general quality fixes)

[mesetacadre]

(not the former torrent anon) do you use a vpn for torrenting? if yes, which one? im a bit afraid to torrenting without one, am i just being too paranoid? all the reddit threads etc say that a vpn is highly recommended

Hi, if you should use a vpn or not very much depends on your country. In Spain the consumption of pirated content and seeding of torrents with pirated content is not really punished for individual people, at most your ISP might temporarily block some sites but you can use mirrors and they aren't that thorough. Also, spanish law seems to and is mostly interpreted to only punish the distribution and consumption of pirated content if you gain economic benefit from it or if you're the person directly pirating the content, like removing DRMs from videogames or ripping a movie off Netflix.

The reason people on reddit insist so much on VPNs is because they are hegemonically USA, where the mere downloading of pirated content can make the ISP shut off your internet, and you can be fined. In this cases VPNs are useful because the ISP can't (or not as easily) see what you're downloading exactly, and you also protect your IP adress from trackers or honeypots, but if you're downloading from 1336x or yts or one of those sorts of sites there is no real danger as long as you're not extremely stupid.

If you're in the USA, you should get a VPN. If you're in a country that's not part of the US imperial hegemony, like Russia or Argentina, you can probably get away with not using a VPN without worrying about legal action. If you are in a country that would respect US IP law (which let's be honest is where most copyrighted content that can land you a fine comes from) it really depends on your situation. I'm lucky Spain isn't heavy handed, but Germany I've heard can be quite aggressive.

Regardless of all of this you should always without exception get an adblocker, I can't recommend uBlock Origin enough. It is very complete out of the box and does not fails where others do. For example, Adblock Plus (ABP) does not by default block those links that redirect you to an ad website but if you click again then it sometimes takes you to the actual place. If you use uBlock, I would also add an additional blocklist, I personally use oisd big. To add it, go to ublock settings, and the My Filters tab, then just paste the raw text into it, and save

[apupp3tw0-strings]

Please Turn Off Adblock and Reconnect to WiFi

Date: November 1st, 2131

Since Taffy never got to introduce himself in the car, he took the opportunity to do so as soon as possible (as well as taking the opportunity to introduce everyone else too). Another opportunity Taffy jumped on was the chance to introduce their stupid influencer group idea I never agreed on and that they've roped me into. It's something that Taffy and the others have been bouncing around for a while now, but has recently become more formalized in the past year when we've heard people calling our friend group "The HotSpots". I'm pretty sure it started because Taffy, Blaze, Neil and Blane all seem to be on their phones whenever they can be, and thus anytime the internet went out, at least of them have a mobile hotspot on or something.

Taffy and Blaze seemed to love the nickname though and adopted if for our "future influencer accounts"... (Guys... We're nine.) Shortly after that, Blane seemed to make up a slogan on the spot, one he thought and still thinks is a brilliant use of wordplay and innovation and jumps at pitching whenever possible. A pitch which he often drags the rest of us into, much to my discomfort. (I never agreed to any of this, but then again, I never explicitly said "No" to it either... Gyeh, tis the way it seems to go with my friends.)

As you might've guessed, as soon as Taffy brought up the whole "HotSpots" influencer group thing, Blane jumped on pitching the slogan. Luckily this time I was outside his arm range and didn't get roped in. I still had to nervously smile and cringe in the background though. Spamton didn't seem to enjoy it either judging by the sour expression he gave during the whole performance.

Seems Kris also seemed to share my view point of "Guys, what the heck. We're too young for this, please stop talking about this like it's something that's gonna happen any time soon" and started a bit of a verbal disagreement with Blane (as well as with Blaze and Neil) that Taffy and I had to mediate and ensure didn't go south.

When we both came back and Taffy made some snarky remark about Blane being an idiot, Spamton looked up and, very bluntly told Taff to their face,

"... I [hate mail] U THE MOST."

"Spamton!" I get Spamton is a blunt person. I've been around him long enough to know he's not someone to dance around topics and will state his opinion loud and clear, no matter how rude, but seriously!

Taffy was clearly taken aback by this, which, who wouldn't be? I tried to assure them I'd talk to him and that the rest of the group should just go on ahead a bit. Thankfully Taffy agreed as I stayed back a bit to confront Spamton on how he's been acting.

"Okay, seriously Spamton. What is going on with you?"

"N0THIG. I JUST D0 N'T [leave a like] UR [[trashy intenet friends]]." Yeah right. There's something deeper to this than simply "not liking them"

"You've barely met them!"

"ND I CAN ALR EADY TELL THEI R [fake news] AS CAN B3," Spamton turned to look me in the eye, "KID, D0 U REALLY THINK THOSE [[trendy teens] ] HAVE YOUR BACK?"

"Yes??? I've known them since I was in kindergarten, I sure hope so at least!" ... Sometimes I think I have to really convince myself of that statement. It's sad that I have to convince myself.

"AND YET U'VE [file a complaint] B OUT THEM [[Multi-purpoose tool]] TIMES. HAV N'T U TOLD ME UR [deep dark fears] ABOUT THEM [[leavving for greener pastures]] U?" It wasn't helping here that yeah. I had complained about worrying that my friends didn't actually like me. Mulitple times. In front of Spamton. ... I didn't think it would come back to bite me in the moment! I was just just... Upset, I guess.

I shook my head, "No! We're, we're not doing this right now! That's just my anxiety. I know they wouldn't just, abandon me because they're good friends!" I looked off to where the rest of the group was. They were heading forward without us. They were leaving us behind. ... They were leaving me behind. ...

In that moment, it didn't matter to me if I have my doubts about the HotSpots. I just didn't want to get left behind again.

"And... and right now I just want to have a good night where I can spend time with them, alright?" I looked back to Spamton. I was frustrated at first. I was getting left behind because of him. Because of his behavior. ... But then I started to remember his situation. His friends. Probably where this was all coming from...

I probably shouldn't have just walked off after that. I should've stayed with Spamton, or made sure he came with, especially considering the state I found him in a few minutes later... But I was too afraid of getting left behind again.

After I had caught up to the others and we'd hit the first house, I noticed Spamton wasn't following us and went back to check on him. I probably should've made sure he was behind us when I first walked off, because when I came back I sorta found him zoning out and his glasses staticing... I hope it wasn't because of what I had said. It could've been something the askers said, but...

I was able to snap him out of it a bit (not without a bit of a startle though due to his sudden laughter though), we were able to catch up with everyone else and continue on with the night. Everything seemed okay for a time, we got to trick-or-treat (Jevil and Spamton even joined in), we ran into some of Kris's friends (Or... I think they're friends?), made some future plans to hang out at the Fun Center since Blane and Neil were curious when we passed my aunt's house and I said she wasn't there likely because she was working, and overall had a mostly fun night.

... That was until we reached the last stop of the night. A haunted house set up on the old fairgrounds.

To Be Continued

[yonpote]

this is my keep or yeet livepost w my onions on whether phil should keep or yeet

THE GHOST SHIRT yeet bc its haunted by... another youtuber who's worn it. BUT dan pointing out that its small on him just makes it hotter cuz like... tight fitting clothes on this man is,..... hoo boy

aladdin for me is a yeet but im not the biggest aladdin fan personally? so i think keep for phil is fine and BLACK SHIRTS ON PHIL UGHHHHHH LOVe

red nasa shirt 😭😭😭 i would keep it for sentiment tbh ;;

shoe shirt? its so random. yeet. WAIT IT HAS TEXTURES NVM KEEP

oh god wtf is that{?!? OH HE DYED THE ICONIC SHIRT LMAOO yeah this is a yeet but i relate so much to trying to dye something a cool color but just making it look kinda dirty 😭

OH HELL YEAH RIPPED GREEN HOODIE YUMMALICIOUS HUBBA HUBBA comfy hoodie is always a keep

oh brother not another opera spon... use firefox everyone, its got tab containers too and if you use ublock origin u can put in a specific list thing for youtube ads so you dont get the adblock block thing look it up on reddit its so good, if u need chrome for mandatory work thing sure but firefox doesnt harvest everything you type so

NGJFNFJ THE MOLDY GREEN DYED SHIRTS ARE SO BAD BUDDY THE SUSHI SHIRT WOULDA BEEN CUTE OTHERWISE

a millennial gay can never have too many flowery button ups imo, keep

corgi!!!! cute!!

crusty bottom and clean top..... dont make me say it.........

OOO keep the splatter print shirt its very lesbian!!!

gatorland shirt i like a good comfy tourist shirt

marvel shirt YEEEEET

omg the ancient illness hoodie..... THE ONE THAT DAN WORE WHILE WEARING A COLANDER ON HIS HEAD KEEP IT HAS LORE!!!!!!

uhhhh random gray rectangle shirt.. yeet unless he wants to do the short sleeve over long sleeve e boy look

MESH SAKURA SHIRT KEEP FOREVER HOT AND MATCHES DANS SAKURA SHIRT LOL. TJE NIP WINDOW????? CHEST HAIR!?!?!?!?

ooo semi-varsity jacket... i think if it was baggier on him and it looked more like the embroidered ones ppl wear in japan it would be a keep but for me its yeet

MOON SHIRT!!!! keep for cutie pie reasons. PHIL IS NOT APPROPRIATING LESBIAN WITCH DAN HE LITERALLY IS ONE HES A LESBIAN PSYCHIC "i could be a lesbian witch!"

nasa jacket keeeeep

stranger yeet.

types of frogs KEEP. ITS SO RAINFOREST CAFE FROG SHIRT VIBE AS WELL AS DAN'S SPACE CENTER CAT SHIRT

beetle... i voted yeet on ig

friends t shirt i would say keep for phil cuz listen. millennials need their sitcom attachment and i love a big comfy shirt. also oops edit flub? they didnt say whether it was kept or yet o7

minesweeper shirt KEEP just bc charlie plays so much minesweeper like my fav part of her streams is just watching her play minesweeper very intensely

keeeeep the plaid windbreaker its sooooo hot on phil. "it smells like a man whos not me" "philip where have you been." jealous dan returns

pokemon hoodie ummmm im kinda 50/50 on this one i love pokemoncore shit but fsr this pattern looks a bit weird? but overall a keep

tokyo i think i voted keep cuz i thought it was newer than it is lol idk i dont think its the worst

furby shirt keep 100% THE OLD FURBY

i think phil shoudl keep all his shorts but him them like 3 inches shorter or just cut the length off. i think its so funny how cis men are like "omg im so slutty for wearing 7 inch inseam shorts" like girl get the daisy dukes out. i wanna see the thighs please.

DID SHE JUST TAKE HER SHORTS OFF ON CAMERA. PHIL YOU WHORE. BRIGHT BLUE UNDIES. IM KILLING MYSELF

YES!!!! TINY LITTLE SHORTS GOD YES THIS IS EVERYTHING TO ME.

comfy gray shorts keep OH ITS THE ASS SHORTS. ITS THE CAKE SHORTS. KEEP

oof skinny shorts?? yeet (but no hate on skinny jeans in general... i only have one pair of jeans and theyre mega ripped skiinny jeans they just dont look skinny on me cuz im short and chubby) "if emo comes back" girl emos been back

corduroy shorts mehhh oh but texture phil needs texture so keep

ORANGE FLOWER SHORTS KEEP

HELLO??? ummm godzilla shorts are.... if the print were on a shirt i would keep but on shorts?

brown shorts yeet, flower sweater keep, basically i agree w them

ooh another black graphic longsleeve lol. I THINK THIS ONES A KEEP AND THE BEETLES A YEET SORRY

oh funky hoodie. i like it i would wear it keep but idk if i like it on phil

KEEP THE PURPLE STRIPEY SWEATER FOREVER

if this fleece jacket thing didnt have such a stupid back design on it i would say keep

SPOTTY RED BUTTON UP KEEP

keep comfy buffalo checker sweater!!! i would keep

"manchester hoodie" oh.... everyone who voted yeet go die katamari hoodie is perfect

KEEP DENIM JACKET FOREVER

fuzzy denim keeeep hes so hot

spotty blue shirt i LOVE but. its so tatinof ykwim and phils in his new era

oooh stripey blue shirt keep!

i bought a sweater that was inspired by this blue and pink checker thing LOL i think it looked better when he had jet black hair lol

BRIGHT FUTURE! keep!!!

omg wait nooo not the red bomber!!! its cute!!!!!! im too attached to his clothes bro.... i like the red one more than the blue one tbh WHY DID HE BUY SO MANY VERSIONS

Nasa sweater!! keep

blue button up is too like. corporate lol. brother you dont have an office job you dont need boring tops

tiger jumper keep!!!! i like it!!!!! fuck u MEAN fast fashion

good vibes keeeep for the vibes

oh the brown flower pattern on this doesnt work on phil

OH THIS PLANT ONES HOT. YEAH DAN THATS RIGHT DEFEND THIS SHIRT

great wave keep!

glittery zebra is so tied to 2017 in my brain but not in a good way tbh yeet but he is hot in it. "you bought this for me dan" omfg shut UP

i think i voted keep on chess but. on second look its a yeet tbh...

ok thats it yippee that was fun theyre gay im gonna die

[angelicpersonals]

I'm tired of being epileptic

A lot of the time I cant find lyric videos or lyric videos are taken down. I'm so sick and tired of new music videos being full of flashing lights. I have seen numerous people who aren't epileptic claim its "too much" makes them dizzy, distracts from the MV because its constant in so many songs I've seen as of late both in independant music and in kpop. For the past 3 years. It makes it impossible (Unless an audio or lyric video is available) for epileptics to enjoy music. And a lot of the times Audios or lyric videos some a visualizers which have the exact same problem.

If thats not bad enough heres some more issues Youtube Ads: I constantly get ads with flashing lights for goddamned phones or other crap no matter how many times I report it to youtube and remind them people have epilepsy. And while yes adblocker is an option youtube let me remind everyone is f*cking with adblock and not everyone has the money to throw down on a sub to youtube to remove ads and shouldn't have to for a DISABILITY

Youtube Shorts: Nowadays its become so common for certain popular creators I will not name drop, to use rapid flashing lights in their videos. I have reached out to them via emails to say "Hey can you add an epilepsy warning to the beginning if possible because shorts autoplay and flashing lights can seriously harm epileptics. Never get any response email back and they keep doing it, even when I get other people to email them to get their attention.

Tiktoks: Not all tiktoks with flashing lights get the epilepsy warning on them, I dont know if creators can set this so im not going to b*tch about the creators for this but I still want to bring up this IS an issue. Tumblr: Yes even here has had issues where people won't tag posts with epilepsy warnings putting epileptics who are trying to avoid said things at risk.

Why is this all a problem? Because people with epilepsy can potentially DIE from seizures. It doesn't take much to add a quick epilepsy warning on videos, Ads SHOULD be regulated for safety in the first place because they are FORCED. This is peoples LIVES that people are carelessly playing with. Oversight is one thing. But theres no excuse for ignoring the issue. Why can't people stop to think: What if this was my parent, my friend, my sister, brother, cousin, child in some cases because some of these ppl are parents. My family didn't realize I was epileptic until I had a MAJOR seizure because all I had before that was SILENT seizures, the type where you look like you are fine but you are unresponsive.

So it could be literally ANYONE they know. yet they still are so careless. its not like epilepsy is a new thing either. So I do not understand WHY people are so irresponsible.

TL;DR creators and sites are being irresponsible putting lives at risk and its not hard to just regulate ads for safety and add a few second warnings to the beginning of videos.

[yokomation-blog]

AWWWWWW, did i Over do my thing?

Well TOO BAD YOUTUBE!

the Adpocalypse ENDS TO FUCKING DAY!

i highly HIGHLY encourage everyone to do this and show YouTube we´re Already fedup with thier Ad Bullshit, An Artist like myself, everyone really should NOT be forced to watch your Stupid fucking ads YouTube, MILLIONS of People Have likely Already Died when looking up How to Save someone frome a heart attack because of a fucking Ad, People´s Relaxing Days have all been ruined by a STUPID unskippable ad.

"BUT IT SURPPORTS THE CREATORS AND" Well too bad you never EVER just gave us a button to say Yes or No to Ad´s YouTube, NO NO NO! YouTube and the People who run it Do NOT Give a Crap About the Viewers, they All only Care about the Money, isn´t that why we got the YouTube Shorts Bullshit, You Know I Really REALLY Care about my Fans and stuff and i do NOT WANNA SEE ANY ADS ON MY FUCKING VIDEO´S or on anyone´s Video´s,

i may only have like 554 Sub´s But I LOVE THEM ALL and i do not thier viewing of any content been Faced with a Dumb ad, in Fact i sometimes just Down right QUIT A VIDEO when an Ad Comes up on my IPad or Phone when im on YouTube because they are just a Waste of Time.

so, NO YouTube, we´ll be keeping the Adblock and YOU YOUTUBE are not going to Get Win AT FUCKING ALL! Keep YouTube Free,

Spread my Words fans, get this message and tell them to suck a fart like how i have on the 2nd image either here on YouTube or On any other social platform

[trifoliate-undergrowth]

Got my car stereo yoinked today to be fixed and I'm used to the tape player being broken but the radio working so I keep going oh I'll turn the radio on and going to reach for the gaping hole in my dashboard and going Ah.

Also it was very funny the guy was like "yeah we can get the original fixed but also it would be way cheaper and also better in literally every way for you to just replace it with a newer version" and I was like "do you have one with a tape player" and he's like "uh no they don't make those. You could have Bluetooth though!" And I'm like "I have a phone to tape player adaptor already :) " and he's like "you could have a wireless connection though" and I'm like "I just want to play my tapes bc I have some to play in the tape player but it broke" and he's like "okay, I mean, we can do that? If you're sure?? You could get an upgrade that would bring you into the modern age. And be cheaper" and I'm like "nah :) "

He was cute (said in an "asexual with daddy issues" way), squirrelly guy with silvery hair and glasses and a three-quarters-missing fingernail. There's a little tool you use to unlock the stereo from the dash and it just pops right out (well, optimally, mine was stuck and he struggled a bit) and then unhook a couple wires. I'm not sure what I was expecting but this was pretty simple and cool to watch. Hope they can fix it and it's not too expensive! I've been so frustrated that I got tapes to play and the tape player broke! I've got copies of CDs, I've got a mixtape I made by hooking up my tape recorder to my computer and I miss not having dang YouTube ads! (Yes I should just install an adblocker on my phone no I haven't done it yet)

[normalhorse]

I have developed a new youtube strategy and if I don't write it down I'll forget but it's working nicely to find wholesome and delightful woodworking stuff I would never have otherwise found/looked at.

ah this is going to go long so executive summary: this is not really about my new youtube strategy but it is about youtube stuff I like and why. And a bit about my youtube strategy I guess. and how I have autism lmao.

For instance this guy:

makes very quietly-spoken, mostly shop footage and talking to camera (and a bit of inserted reference footage or pov shots, too) videos, making nice furniture out of nice hardwoods and self-made recycled skateboard plywood.

This all delivered with an affect my wife wife described as "radiating warmth and light" and a genuinely engaging and crucially understated enthusiasm. perfect blend of cali skater zen and also manual crafts zen.

Obligatory #youtube grammar notes: nothing egregious so far! One word really caught my attention (not enough for me to, like, remember what it was for sure - I think it was furthermore?), as being far enough away from exactly right as to be jarring also (Andrew if you ever read this I am trying very hard to write this in a way that doesn't seem, like, aggressively negative but if it does, [and this is unsolicited criticism so why wouldn't it] as a countermeasure: you're doing great! one and a half weird words in idk half an hour of footage is frankly incredible. and your videos are lovely. thanks!). The 'half' was one instance out of several uses of 'itself' also hit wrong but I can't explain why even to myself so who cares.

Anyway, it's exactly my shit except a lot of his thumbnails look like high energy sfx-heavy youtube maker stuff yelled at me by a bro (Sorry again Andrew once again you are doing great!) which I would never click on except for my grand strategy of:

subscribe early, subscribe often

just like follow links in videos when you watch a nice video and the presenter says 'inspired by a video from ...' - if they make the kind of videos you want, there's a better than average chance people that inspire them do too.

Yes, the second thing should have been blindingly obvious, but I have a medical condition and don't have to notice things.

Mostly it's that the links are now in the readmore of the description field, and I usually don't read those because they register in my brain as post signatures, so I maybe read the whole readmore once per channel.

(for the sake of internet epoch claiming the relevant signatures are on usenet)

That is, I expect the description to have the same content all the time after the obligatory first line modification (i.e. the actual video description text). There's usually a huge identical section of socmed links, affiliate links to products used in the video, affiliate links to endorsed products/channel sponsors generally.

So I didn't know that sometimes there are video/channel links in there, ok? Also there's a popup info panel but I think I adblocked it lmao.

Anyway. Subscribe early, subscribe often, though: Because windows just shuts itself the fuck down whenever it wants, and chrome no longer restores smashed windows by default (presumably for ultimately surveillance-enhancing reasons), and I have watch history turned off on youtube (yeah I know but also listen being paranoid about the internet is my actual job I am allowed to be a weirdo if I want), once I open a linked video in a new tab or whatever, if the video looks cool I subscribe immediately, because I won't watch it now and I'll lose the tab tomorrow.

Anyway this is probably exactly the usage model youtube would like me to have, but because I have watch history turned off I don't get youtube's """highly curated""" recommended bullshit, I only see <search results for niche interest query> and stuff recommended from videos I'm already subscribed to. So like sort of their model but much more actually useful to me.

cool strategy bro

but yeah the real question is hey do you know any more channels like this for carpentry/metalwork/basically any craft stuff? hit me with yr haberdashery yr leatherwork your embroidery - but not cooking for some reason. because they are extremely important for my little mental health right now cheers

[aggold15hi01]

Just when you are going to YouTube official website--unsigned but they kept pestering you by getting a premium membership you do have to get charged from 2$. 😠😐😑

Seriously, if you are giving us a scare like this; YouTube; may be you should think long hard and twice at this point because none of us like ADs but paying for an AD Free service & get charged? No thank you. (*Yes, I am using the best quality on the ADBlocker on all platforms. ✌️)

⚠️ Disclaimer: I don't own any of the images & none of them are mine.

[m---resources]

hi! when i try to download episodes from the mega folder it tells me that i have to pay to do that. do you know what i could do? <3

hi! yes, sadly mega has a free download limit of 5gb every 24h per ip-address, which is its main downside (i give you guys links with mega as a host because it's much harder for people to make nearly enough google drives for all of this, considering new google accounts now each need a verification via a real phone number. mega also has much better privacy protection in general)

about the download limit, there are a few things you can do: (below the cut because it got long)

1) download MEGAsync, mega's own cloud synchronisation tool, which you can find on their website here. this lets you save links and thereby queue the downloads, so you will not lose progress if you run out of download capacity for the day or shut down your computer in the middle of a download (like you would if you were downloading in the browser). also, whenever you have the programme open, it will automatically resume your download queue once your free account has capacity again. you do need to make a free account for this, but you can use a throwaway address like one from 10minutemail. just do not forget to note down the random e-mail address it gives you somewhere because you will still need to use it as your username anytime you log in.

2) use premium link generators. a premium link generator is a website that downloads any mega (or many other filehosters') links you give them through their own premium accounts on those hosting sites, then reuploads whatever it finds, and lets you download the file from their own website for free and at a high speed.

the link generator sites pay for those premium accounts with ads they show you, though, meaning you have to click through quite a few of them and several captchas to get your free link. for this, please make sure to have at least one adblocker (like adblock plus and ublock origin), and if you want to be cautious at least one antivirus plugin (like malwarebytes and avira), installed. there are some posts with good general privacy plugins floating about, i will add a link here if i find them again. when you click through the ~5-10 ads and captchas, there will be one page that will ask you to disable your adblocker - please only turn it off if you can't clear that site otherwise and turn it back on immediately after you have cleared that site. in general, also make sure to close any pop ups that open and pay attention to finding the correct continue/download buttons (though i've never really had fake ones, just mentioning it to be sure).

the only premium link generator that consistently works for me is uploadedpremiumlink.net. they give you an additional 5gb of downloads per day on mega if you are logged out, 10gb if you make an account. once again, you can use a throwaway mail address like from 10minutemail to make an account as long as you remember what your username and password is

3) use a vpn or some other way of changing your ip-adress. if you are not logged in, then the only way that mega determines that your 5gb are up is via your ip-address. if you can appear under another ip-address, it should give you a new 5gb of capacity, assuming somebody else hasn't also used that ip-address to download from mega in the same day. sadly, i can't really recommend you any free vpn services as i do not have any experience with any of them - but maybe others have some suggestions in the notes?

i hope this helps, at least a little bit! i also searched some reddit threads but couldn't verify any other options on there myself.

as always, please use any information i give you at your own discretion, and if anyone else has any suggestions, i'd love to hear them!!

[dissonantdreamer]

Do you or anyone who follows you know where I may perchance be able to pirate tlou? I don't have hbo or sky :(

arr matey if ye be looking to plunder

here be the reddit megathread on piracy, a bounty of advice and sites should ye ever decide the pirate life is for ya,

always use an adblocker!

if ye be looking for a quick answer, movies123 (search in Google) is where I dropped anchor earlier

be safe and yar har or something like that

[nerbulent]

jesus christ that is a horrible extension list. one by one:

sponsorblock: sure ok. if you want.

track me not: i mean. it does random searches in the background. will probably get you rate-limited (yes that happens)

ublock: yeah. definitely.

unhook: i'm pretty sure this just removes almost all youtube functionality. if you don't like youtube go ahead. just tested it. yeah it does.

ghostery: two things. number one: this is spyware. closed source and owned by an advertising company. number two: you already have an adblocker. if you have multiple, it will slow down your browser by a lot and give you no extra protection. (this also applies with all extensions. the more you have, the slower your browser, typically.)

https everywhere: well. this is just cryptography. most sites that you want https on have https already forced. pointless.

privacy badger: ok fair.

privacy possum: ok. not a complete overlap with badger. but. i wouldn't recommend both, especially given that you already have ublock. fucks with your browser speed, again.

adblocker for youtube: never heard of this one. i do not recommend anything other than ublock.

adblocker ultimate: this is the fourth adblocker. you should only have one. you are slowing your browser down so god damn much.

adnauseam: ublock with some extra features. use this OR ublock becuase it is ublock with extra crap. you do not need more than one adblocker.

blue blocker: i mean. if you want

don't track me google: fair

duck duck go privacy essentials: ublock does more or less everything this does. with this many extensions, your browser is so blatantly obvious and easy to tell apart from others that you're fucking yourself over. they don't need to track you you're doing it yourself.

facebook container: only if you use facebook.

the more extensions you have, the easier you are to track and the slower your browser gets.

hello google chrome refugees

don't use any of these browsers, they're also chrome

Here are my favorite firefox plugins for security/anti-tracking/anti-ad that I recommend you get

please get off chrome google is currently being investigated for being an Illegal Monopoly so get outta there okay love you bye

[h-adaptionem]

Hey there, I'm H (they/them) and this is my tumblr blog for my YouTube channel.

My YouTube channel is H. adaptionem; I post roughly the same kinda stuff there, except you have to look at my face and hear my voice

My main blog is homo-adaptionem. My research blog for my YT is h-a-reference-research-resources. You can see all of my playlists at h-adaptionem.tumblr.com/ytplaylists You can see my backlog of videos at h-adaptionem.tumblr.com/videobacklog Read the FAQ here: h-adaptionem.tumblr.com/faq I have an Instagram, theadaptinghuman, but I mainly use it for looking at other's stuff rather than posting my own.

H. adaptionem stands for "Homo adaptionem", which means "the adapting human", because I felt "sapien" was a bit too generous for a dumbass like me. Sadly, YouTube would penalize me if my channel name included "homo" in it, so we get H. adaptionem instead. I made this blog so I could link to my tumblr without getting penalized for my descriptions containing "homo".

DISCLAIMER: My videos are not intended for children. They contain crude humor, foul language, and adult topics. Yes, even those that focus on toys, cartoons, and other "childish" things. I'm not a babysitter and I should not be expected to cater to children or their useless parents/guardians.

REMEMBER TO TURN ON ADBLOCKER AND KEEP IT ON! I do not run ads on my videos and I don't make any money off of them! ANY ADS YOU SEE ARE THOSE YOUTUBE IS PLACING SO THEY MAKE MONEY OFF OF MY CONTENT! Fuck ads, fuck capitalism, fuck corporations! Use that sexy, sexy adblock!!! 🖤

My favorite YouTubers include blameitonjorge, Brutal Moose, TheGamerFromMars, Jenna Marbles, Justin Whang, Reignbot, ScareTheater, SomeOrdinaryGamers, and xCanadensis, among MANY others. Those are the vibes I want for this channel: a person talking about, doing, and sharing things they enjoy. This channel is a hobby, so I post according to my schedule and my life.

Some recurring series (some not yet posted; all planned; some currently filming)

"Bone Asp the Teeth" (🦴🐍🦷) a cooking and food focused series

"Tragic Reality" where I talk about true historical tragic events (hopefully respectfully and tastefully)

"Urban Legends" where I talk about urban legends, creepypasta, folklore, mythology, and cryptids

"Weird Reality" where I talk about strange true stuff

"Witch Wednesday" a series that includes workings, recipes, and discussions about witchcraft

I try to release Bone Asp the Teeth on Tuesdays (Chewsday), and Witch Wednesday on… well, Wednesday. Other than that, there's no real schedule. I film what I want, edit when I want, and post when I want.

Anyway, thanks for reading, and stay safe and stay weird.

[h7p3r4ct1v3-h0rn3t2]

Shpd I try watching clone high sometime ? I’ve seen clips of it but never the full thing and one of my old friends used to like it

YES YOU SHOULD DO THAT. YOU CAN FINDIT FOR FREE HERE (you might want an adblocker to go there though. if you dont already have one)

[thephantombelow]

Mastadon is a deeply confusing platform.

I don’t get Mastadon! What exactly is the appeal of this platform? What exactly is the purpose?

In my pursuit of these answers I found that they recently made this video: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPSbNdBmWKE

It only confused me more. Every selling point with the exception of one just sounds like Discord but with Twitter’s formatting (ew). The only good part to it is that it is open source. That is a fantastic part to it yes -- But as an actual user what does it have in store? What does this platform have to differ from other platforms, genuinely?

“Instead of having one company control the site rules and who and what gets banned it is the users!” 

This is like, as much of a cool good thing as it is a thing I am not sure about at all on whether or not it is good, per say. Like... what is the difference between that and Discord? An community instance controlled by users and rules set by users and all of that is just a Discord server. The only difference is that the platform itself is controlled by the users not by a company... I think? It is apparently, decentralized, I guess, even if seemingly all of the instances I have seen apparently have the same format? You can retweet / reblog / share / whatever the equivalent there is for the same function as all of these other platforms and -- Like, okay. This is just twitter but decentralized, so far. What else is there appeal wise?

“There is no ads!”

Okay. That is cool! Genuinely impressive that is able to function with no ads. However... I have 5 different adblockers running at all times even on my own phone. The average joe doesn’t, sure, but like, this isn’t that much of a selling point all things considered. Ads aren’t that annoying on Twitter, on Reddit, hell, on here... Certainly they are on Facebook and Instagram but like this platform is clearly trying to appeal to the Twitter user by its design here, right? Its talks it being open-source, user controlled etc... Oh shit. This is not Discord.

It’s worse. It’s Reddit but with the U.I. of Twitter. 

Do you want Twitter to have functionally the equivalent to Reddit mods? Do you really? Because this is what Mastadon is, with the exception of the “main” Mastadon “server”, so to speak, that is controlled by the Mastadon company themselves so it doesn’t have the benefit of being user controlled or whatever -- So is functionally just Twitter 3.0 but open source I guess. Every other instance of Mastadon, which considering the advertising here, people are encouraged to go to other instances other than the main biggest ones, much like Discord and Reddit, is controlled by users of the site. So for those that have been on Reddit long enough you should already be hearing the giant warning alarms here. 

These other instances sound like hell. An server with the formatting of Twitter controlled by literal Reddit moderators, except because before this platform got popular from Twitter’s downfall, it was filled with ultra always online folk, means that for the long running existing instances are not controlled by the regular user but by fucking psychos. If you have ever had to deal with over bearing Discord and / or Reddit moderators imagine that but times 10x here, only boosted especially because the format is design very fucking similarly to Twitter’s. You can’t catch ever single post on a Twitter timeline as it is. Now try moderating that. Imagine trying to be a Discord mod of a Twitter timeline -- Of one that has hundreds of different unique people that are constantly using the platform. Is that even remotely possible to moderate without incredibly robust tools here? 

 Reddit and Discord took years to properly implement fully robust moderating tools here. Arguably they both still don’t have all that great tools. Reddit overly has to use bots to moderate at lot of shit and deleted posts can very much still easily be found because of how Reddit’s API works; Discord isn’t all that much better. Every instance of Mastadon is not controlled by Mastadon (the company), and as such how are the users guaranteed to know that the owners of the instances have full proper control? I have seen enough meltdowns on Gamer(tm) forums by users and moderators to know exactly how this will go. 

I not hopeful that Mastadon will work out. I am not sure what powers the moderators of Mastadon instances have yet and that is not something is explained by the advertising of the service let alone by anyone I have seen talk about it. I simply don’t trust it to work.

Millions and millions for some reason believe that Twitter’s formatting is actually good. It never was. The site simply was not designed to be able to express all that humanity can offer and was never designed all that well from a pure user interface perspective. It was never moderated properly and was never used all that well. The site was doomed to never be a major social media. Before Elon bought it the site had 300 million users -- Barely making the top 10 in social platforms. Fucking Pinterest has just under the amount of users Twitter does. The formatting of a website genuinely matters a lot, as Twitter never had more users than there are people in the USA.  Never will. 

Facebook has over a billion users. Instagram isn’t far behind. Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, if they didn’t try to overly invest in VR and had so much failure with their advertising schemes as of late potentially could still both last another 20 - 30 years, genuinely, but it likely won’t, for better or for worse.  

Twitter was a site that was doomed for failure from the start. It's formatting simply isn't that great in trying to bring in more people. It is a site designed to express quick thoughts and share things. It was doomed to never bring in more users than its competition as its competition allowed people to express more.

So then. Why exactly are we using Twitter’s format?

Why are all of the start-up social medias attempting to just recreate what was a failure in the first place? 

Why, when presented with failure, do people only recreate the failure and change the two things they don’t like about it? 

This has happened several times with Reddit, all resulting in failures (usually these sites just tried to replace the upvote / downvote system with something different and made changes to the moderation system, nothing more. Otherwise the formatting was the exact same.)

This has happened endless amounts of times with small forums of all kinds, such as Discord servers, with nerd bullshit forums, and now entire social medias. This is but a product of human behavior, from petty arguments stemming from endless debates. This is what fractures entire countries and this what fractures friend groups. 

So then, why exactly are we thinking “Twitter, but you can fracture off communities with the power of OPEN SOURCE TECHNOLOGY!” is even remotely a good idea? Hell, why are we thinking “Twitter, BUT” ANYTHING is a good idea? Just. Use something that already exists man. We don’t have to go and create a system just like Twitter just because Humanity simply is not good at adapting to change. Alright? Alright.

(For any corrections, further discussion, thoughts, etc., please send me an ask! Let me know your thoughts on this one. I am curious to hear them!)

[bumblebeerror]

For the record, I have these steps to radically improving preformance besides this, if you don’t know much abt computers in general.

1) disable all startup apps. Yes even the ones you know you’ll use. It’ll frankly be faster to open them one by one once your desktop loads.

2) run a disc cleaner. Ccleaner is the one I use and it’s free. The paid version just allows you to customize and turn off startup apps (we already did that in step 1 tho) so you don’t need it. It cleans up all the trackers in your browser and various stray files you accrue when running programs.

3) UPDATE. YOUR. COMPUTER. I cannot tell you how many times my mom has looked at me and said her computer is freezing up and running updates fixed it. Windows automatically finds driver updates and such for you as well in your updates menus, so if it’s giving you an issue go through them and update everything.

4) Firefox. It stores your passwords and auto fill info and doesn’t steal your data. Removing cookies or trackers from Firefox browsers doesn’t effect this functionality, so you don’t have to be careful of what trackers you dump. It also has extensions for just about everything and they’re easy as shit to use and download, plus a bunch of custom themes. I run adblock, dyslexie (extension that turns every font block it can to the dyslexie font which is easier to read), and forced dark mode, myself. Along with dashboard unfucker via tampermonkey.

5) an addendum to the above: ADBLOCKER. I know some people are still getting ads on YT and twitch even thru adblock, and that sucks. But so many sites use so many ads that it’s highly likely that the ads themselves are what’s causing the drag in performance.

6) try turning it off and on again. It’s not really harmful to computers to leave them on all the time, but sometimes files or programs can corrupt or glitch, and oftentimes closing the program and reopening it is the easiest way to help performance. Going for a full restart just ensures every program running gets closed, which is handy if you don’t know which one is fucking up. If you do, you can always use task manager to end the process, and reopening the program should have the same effect if it’s the right one.

7) if none of the above works, you may actually have an overheating issue. For laptops there’s not much to do for that, unfortunately. The best way I’ve found is to use the laptop on hard surfaces like lap desks or tables only, and on really hot days I’ll sometimes wrap a freezable cold pack, the sealed hard plastic ones for lunchboxes, in a towel and place my laptop on the towel. It doesn’t help much but it keeps that old girl going.

i thought my laptop was on its last leg because it was running at six billion degrees and using 100% disk space at all times and then i turned off shadows and some other windows effects and it was immediately cured. i just did the same to my roommate's computer and its performance issues were also immediately cured. okay. i guess.

so i guess if you have creaky freezy windows 10/11 try searching "advanced system settings", go to performance settings, and uncheck "show shadows under windows" and anything else you don't want. hope that helps someone else.