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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
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hey netizens! i'm not sure how many people are aware, but youtube's been slowly rolling out a new anti-adblock policy that can't be bypassed with the usual software like uBlock Origin and Pi-Hole out of the gate

BUT, if you're a uBlock Origin user (or use an adblocker with a similar cosmetics modifier), you can add these commands in the uBlock dashboard (under My Filters) to get rid of it!

youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)

youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])

youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)

reblog to help keep the internet less annoying and to tell corporations that try shit like this to go fuck themselves <3

triviallytrue
triviallytrue

more broadly there's this culture war around "science" that is kind of maddening - on one side there are the people who noticed that the CDC flipped its stance on masks early on in the pandemic and have leapt full force into antivax nonsense, and then on the other side there are people who seem to blindly support an imagined scientific consensus without ever really bothering to check what that might be

and like, i get it, shits hard. you've got:

  • scientific institutions like the CDC that are also political institutions that will lie to you sometimes for political reasons, like worrying about a mask shortage
  • scientific grifters who will use credentials they've earned to push nonsense for their own financial benefit
  • the impenetrability of a lot of published scientific studies to an average layman
  • the abysmal state of journalistic writing on studies
  • genuine disagreement within a scientific community
  • the replication crisis looming in the background
  • scientific fraud and even good old fashioned honest fuckups

so yeah, it's crazy out there as an individual trying to determine truth. i regularly find myself reading studies that i just don't have the context or background for, because i still think muddling through them myself is preferable to reading a journalist trying to do the same.

what's infuriating to me is the institutional failure all of this implies, i mean good science communication is possible! your local epidemiologist isn't perfect but she fucking laps the NYT.

dadvans
dadvans

true story

me for the first 33 years of my life: my dad used to say "what would happen if you woke up on the titanic?? think about it" when he was tucking me in at night from at least age 5 and up, a form of psychological torture

me in my 33rd year of life: my dad optimistically thought i would have $250k to blow on something stupid by now and shut that shit down at the jump in the 90s

triviallytrue
triviallytrue

more broadly there's this culture war around "science" that is kind of maddening - on one side there are the people who noticed that the CDC flipped its stance on masks early on in the pandemic and have leapt full force into antivax nonsense, and then on the other side there are people who seem to blindly support an imagined scientific consensus without ever really bothering to check what that might be

and like, i get it, shits hard. you've got:

  • scientific institutions like the CDC that are also political institutions that will lie to you sometimes for political reasons, like worrying about a mask shortage
  • scientific grifters who will use credentials they've earned to push nonsense for their own financial benefit
  • the impenetrability of a lot of published scientific studies to an average layman
  • the abysmal state of journalistic writing on studies
  • genuine disagreement within a scientific community
  • the replication crisis looming in the background
  • scientific fraud and even good old fashioned honest fuckups

so yeah, it's crazy out there as an individual trying to determine truth. i regularly find myself reading studies that i just don't have the context or background for, because i still think muddling through them myself is preferable to reading a journalist trying to do the same.

what's infuriating to me is the institutional failure all of this implies, i mean good science communication is possible! your local epidemiologist isn't perfect but she fucking laps the NYT.