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SponsorBlock FTW!
also also, firefox on android supports extensions. never go anywhere without ublock origin and sponsorblock.
No need for the clumsy browser experience. Just download ReVanced.
I’ve gotten reVanced a couple times. It usually works for a week or two before something breaks.
Do you have microg integration set up? Usually the root cause of issues when something there is broken from my experience, assuming you have stable from the official revanced manager.
Newpipe > revanced IMO. Newpipe also supports a few other media streaming services outside of youtube, and when stuff breaks due to google interference they usually have a fix out within a few days.
The problem with NewPipe is that it breaks the YouTube experience. ReVanced lets you use your YouTube account to get all the normal YouTube functionality such as liking and commenting, viewing your subscriptions (including syncing if you make a change) and, most importantly, syncing playlists such as the Watch Later playlist.
I’ve only had ReVanced break once since I started using it, way back when Vanced first died. So I don’t consider the “stuff breaks” element to be especially relevant.
Yeah that’s a fair point. I use newpipe specifically to get away from the youtube experience and keep only the videos. Newpipe does let you create local playlists and subscriptions that live only in the app, which I do utilize a bit.
If you’re on android I’d recommend viewing youtube videos through newpipe as it strips out everything except for the stream. Only downside is that it doesn’t have replacement functionality for sponsorblock.
Nothing feels worse than seeing ads for shit you’ve already got, too. That’s when you know you’ve fucked up
yeah, the best time to advertise at me about a thing is while I’m researching thing to buy.
Advertising at me after I bought the thing is useless, I already bought it!
Only advertised product I’ve ever spent money on is NordVPN which is fine for my use case - avoiding geoblocking a couple of times a week. Probably switching to Mullvad soon though, because American companies can eat dirt.
But yeah, honey was always super sus. If something seems “too good to be true”, maybe it is.
Funny to me because I can’t recall the last time I ever saw a Mullvad ad but they had their little mole guy plastered over a bus in my (American) city. Thought it was cute and quirky because I doubt 80% of the people in my area even know what a VPN is. Better than the usual lame ads like for lawyers or health insurance.
NYC is covered with mullvad ads. pretty crazy actually
I have noticed every YouTube sponsor, with no exception so far, is 1. A scam. 2. Overpriced.
The 3rd option, “product of the creator,” can actually be ok sometimes. It just depends on if the creator is the type to scam people.
I have seen Proton as a sponsor once or twice and I don’t have any complains about the products they are selling.
The “privacy” service that gobbled on orange fascist knob from Switzerland? With their public accounts?
Yeah. Nothing sketchy behind that choice.
RAID SHADOW LE- JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP, BRAND!
I watched a review of raid shadow legends a while ago, and was unsurprising to see it was a very uninteresting game
The funniest thing was when Alec Steele (blacksmithing/metal working YouTuber) did a Raid ad. Him following their standard script was ridiculous
His phone he played the game on had a cracked screen
It really showed me not to believe any of his ads in particular
Magic spoon got me. I was looking for a protein cereal so I was excited for a podcast I listen to advertise one. All the flavors are the same gross base that cut up your mouth with different artificial powders put on top. Of course I start seeing a bunch ads more after
If you want a protein breakfast, why not bacon and eggs?
Convenience, variety, and I specifically wanted cereal but it doesn’t fit a high protein diet. Also have you seen the cost of eggs?!
Huh, this company is spending a lot of money on marketing. Guess I’ll buy from a company doing less marketing so I’ll get it cheaper.
I have a rule if they sponsor on multiple youtubers they are probably a scam and avoid. If i find the service interesting i search up alternatives that spend their money better
This is partly why I don’t trust Ground News. They’re putting way too much money into advertising for me to believe they’re genuinely interested in providing an unbiased factual categorization of news sources.
I also simply don’t believe it’s possible to be unbiased, so anyone claiming to be is immediately suspect to me.
They also reinforce seeing liberal and conservative as opposites. The only good service they have is showing who sponsors which sources. However, the whole “blindspot” system seems designed as a both-sidesism
Exactly! It’s really disheartening to me to see so many youtubers who are otherwise insightful be so uncritically supportive of Ground News because they “like what they’re trying to do.”
Is it perfect? no but it is the best way to be able to read the news from multiple POVs. They also include every single news outlet I’ve ever heard of and then some
I get that it offers a bunch of features that you can’t get anywhere else, but I just can’t shake the uneasy feeling that it’s all a trojan horse for something more sinister. I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop and see it suddenly explode in controversy after someone exposes something not quite kosher going on under the surface.
It’s just too good to be true.
This is the rule I live by when being forced fed ads. I will actively go out of my way to not use whatever product it is.
hmm enough profits to sponser all youtube. sus
Especially if it’s a free to play game
That just tells me “you will definitely spend money to get what you’re looking for in this game”
No fucking thanks
fuckin looking at YOU, OPERA GX.
NordVPN and ExpressVPN are trying to hide behind Opera
Express is, okay for what it is.
Nord though is hiding behind the word “Nord”. It’s not even a Nordic company. It’s based in British virgin islands just like Surfshark
If they have the budget to mass advertise then that means they’re earning probably 100x that, most likely directly from users.
Or they’re burning through their VC funds because they’re out of ideas and have no customers.
To this day, I will never ever ever touch any Mazda products. All thanks to their dumb fucking zoom zoom advertising campaign about 20 years ago that involved their adverts playing twice during every ad break. Plus they were sponsoring shit, so it was everywhere. I feel like I still have PTSD from it. Fuck Mazda.
I can’t speak for modern Mazdas but I got a lowest trim manual, power nothing, in the mid naughties and it was still going strong 15 years later. So for all of their marketing annoyance it was absolutely a good product.
You got it when they were still creating rustbuckets then. The newer ones have much stronger bodywork and don’t oxidize within 3 minutes upon seeing salted roads. Can’t speak for the long term reliability though, don’t know anyone who’s owned one for too long (only friend who owned a newish Mazda traded it in for a Volvo V90 after a few years because space)
I am tempted by new Mazdas because they now have some real nice engines available and they don’t do the whole “everything is touch” thing because apparently they actually care about safety… BUT… I’m salty that they don’t sell the CX90 here, only the CX80. I could really use the extra space nowadays.
I’d say it was TV that gave you the PTSD. I bailed on TV at about 8 years old (28 years ago…) and every time I’ve been with people watching it since I was always amazed just how awful it all really was. But I guess it’s just what becomes normal if you grow up with it
Oh yeah it’s definitely TV. But this was before the days of Netflix and shit and before I had uncapped wifi. I don’t watch standard TV anymore either and when I do see it, same reaction as you. It’s probably a bit different from country to country but I think standard TV is mostly geared towards older people now too because most under 40 have unplugged by now.
This was exactly how I felt about the Honey scam. xD
Very first thought was “how the fuck are they making money enough to advertise??”I heard about it, downloaded it, tried it. Then i googled for other coupons and found a better one. Deleted Honey right away for being shit.
Im surprised so many people would just trust the app immediately and not try to see if there were better coupons.
