#i love adblockers

[a-calico-rabbit]

more scummy advertising from Youtube and their customers!

Here we can see an advertiser using þe trick of having something in þe top, and a game in þe bottom. I use þis less as evidence of YouTube’s shittery, and more as a hook to grab your attention. Consider your attention grabbed.

Second, and first of two recorded instances of YouTube doing something that shows þeir fuckwaddedness directly, we have obscured skip buttons. No, I have not edited þis. Yes, i’ve seen þis several times. I hate it.

And for C, I ask you, dear bastard, to direct your attention to þe top right corner. You see þat little pie? Þat’s a small, hard-to-guage-þe-lengþ-of record of YouTube’s new and dick-proved post-ad buffer, where for a grand total of 5-to-10–hard to remember exactly—seconds, you are forced to look at noþing but þe link of þe 15–yes, you read right, FIF-FUCKING-TEEN—second, unskippable ad. If we combine þis wiþ some other information, and generously guess þis can only happen once during an ad break, þe total lengþ of time one can spend watching unkippable ads, in a row, is 59-64 seconds, at þree unskippable ads, each þe max lengþ of 18 seconds, and þe low estimate of 5 seconds at þe end. If it can happen after every ad? And we take into account þe ~1.5 seconds lost between each ad and þe video itself for transition? Þat goes up to: 76.5 seconds! WTF! Þis isn’t over þe course of a video—þis is one ad break. One. Fucking hell.

And to those who þink I’m overreacting; on þe Oculus Quest, where þey face no competition, I have seen þree-minute-long unskippable ads. Þe only þing stopping þem is us. Install an ad blocker to deny þis shit. I’m not on one because I want to see what þey’re trying to pull—I’m raþer þoroughly minded I ought to assume you don’t. Do yourself a favor, and fuck þis shit.

[the-real-list-of-ominous-threats]

Today and every day going forth, you WILL be nice to trans women, or else every threat on this blog comes true for you.

[snailsthatdocrafts]

With the power of thrift store DVDs and blueray player ($2 or less each disc and $9 for the player), i am unstoppable (entertained without streaming services). Physical media my beloved 🫶

[rrr-is-gay]

Imagine being in love...

[theredquilt]

Daily Rhett Looks

[inspiteofganon]

Am also on Bluesky but its algorithm can't recommend me barely any LoZ content at all despite regularly posting LoZ stuff and my Likes being a solid 50% (I counted) LoZ stuff so who cares. Who cares.

[rayvern-sheep]

Netflix (the site where one of it’s main selling points was its lack of ads) now has ads, unless you pay extra to get rid of them.

Youtube has recently blessed me with full-length un-skippable ads, and once again removed my ability to block any ad I might take issue with.

I love not being able escape ads ever :)

[horngryeyes]

wait so ive been pissing myself with spotify and tma and tma is there for free on youtube with the non-intrusive audio-integrated type of ad? lol

[notbecauseofvictories]

*taps gently on your window* you said you like the history of chicago? do you have any fun facts specifically related to the history of chicago as the original and eternal capital of pinball? any tidbits that ideally would beyond those found in a typical timeline of pinball history? (ignore this ask if you don’t know anything and/or aren’t interested in the topic ofc)

Weirdly enough, I do! Maybe not a lot, but I know that---much like alcohol---Chicago tried to ban gambling and gaming periodically throughout the 20th century. And I know that---also like alcohol---they failed, completely and utterly.

For those of you not in the know, Chicago technically "banned" pinball games from the 40s to the 70s. Technically, the city enforced such prohibitions.

Technically.

Due to selective enforcement and honestly, people just straight up ignoring the law, Chicago became a powerhouse of gaming activity anyway. Pinball games were part and parcel of that process. I'm talking about Chicago Coin, which was founded in the 1930s, but didn't achieve true success until they started churning out pinball games in the 1960s and 70s. Bally Manufacturing was into pinball games and slot machines long before it ever sold tennis rackets and activewear. Williams Electronics/WMS industries hit the jackpot in 1981 when it produced Defender. (The company has since moved to Las Vegas.) There's a whole complicated history to explore, and I highly encourage everyone to do so.

However, my absolute favorite bit of writing about the city and its symbiotic relationship with pinball is this Chicago Reader piece. It's very clearly an elegy to a dying art form---written in 2005, it's clear that the world of pinball machines is passing away. Still, it loves the arcades of old. Even today pinball games represent an enormous, significant weight on the fabric of the city; sitting in my apartment right now, I'm about a 10 minute walk away from the nearest pinball machine. (Maybe less, I haven't been to every bar in my neighborhood.)

In short, there's a reason that the Pinball Expo has been happening here since 1985---Chicago is the uncrowned queen of the flippers.

So who cares if John E. Cassidy tried to ban them, or that there was an even older 1895 prohibition against mechanical gambling devices? They're as Chicagoan as ketchup-less hotdogs, and complaining about construction on the Kennedy.

[cretaceous-sandwichkid]

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[duck-n-clover]

It's a little too easy, getting harder to please me I know you're starving to feed me You know that you need me I'm getting too good, too good at raising hell

Max and Laurence 🔥💖 Laurence is @darby-draws oc, and Max belongs to me (and to Laurence. obviously 😈)

[e17omm]

I know Ive asked it before, but have I missed any updates on Tumblr wanting to make Ad-Free cost 70$ instead of 40$?

Because Im checking my subscription and it still says 40$/y

[reductionisms]

so they’re not even hiding it now. Great

[kira-kui-n]

i love seeing messages from sites tryna get me to subscribe to whatever to "go ad-free!". im already ad-free <3

[mydnite-moonrabbit]

YouTube: No. You're not allowed to watch video anymore. Turn the adblocker off. NOW. Me: Fine... *turns adblocker off and refreshes page* YouTube: Thank you. Enjoy the banger. Me: *Immideitly turns the adblocker back on* YouTube: *Doesn't notice* Video: BOOM!

[drakonovisny]

i accidentally opened a youtube link in the main app instead of revanced and had to suffer through a 12 second unskippable ad... i'd be so violent if i had to do that every time i watched yt