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FreeTube is saving my life right now thanks to someone's suggestion on here. if youtube is pissing you off, look into it... it does everything you'd want from a video player with no fuss. It even has my two favorite youtube extensions built in: DeArrow and SponsorBlock. Also download LibRedirect and if you still want to browse youtube like normal or you are sent a video link, you can right-click and select the option to redirect to the video in a new tab with no ads

I am not an expert in these types of things, just a fed up youtube user and these solutions seem to really work.

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The person saying "freetube is still engagement" is wrong. Most of the things that grab from YT are engagement. But freetube is not. Freetube hosts everything on YOUR pc. It blocks any tracking of traffic. If theres no youtube symbol = theres no ad revenue. Theres so many ways to grab videos without making calls to the platform which is what freetube does. My coder friends looked into the open source code.

They are correct that YT still makes money even when people use adblockers, and if you're not logged in and watching without logging in that still gives traffic and collects data. It just doesn't link it to an account. and if theoretically a platform that stops ads you logged into your YT on. You would still be logged, still be giving traffic to youtube on that site same as on apps.

But they are completely wrong about how freetube operates.

Ah, thank you for the details, my friend! It's greatly appreciated!

For anyone who needed this information, here you go!

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If U think i’m annoying

Block me

If U think i’m handsome

Suck me

If U think i’m restless

Walk me

If U think i’m hairy

Pluck me

[cameraclown06]

new thing I learned today: humans intentionally introduced a bunch of trout to rivers in Chile in the early 1900s and messed up the ecosystem so fly fisher people could go play fish or something. which sucks. then later they found out that the trout really like eating these small endemic freshwater hermit-crab-cousin guys called Aegla. so there was a proposal in the 1970s to introduce Aegla into California to screw up THAT ecosystem, so fisher people could go play fish even more over there. but then it turned out that the normally detritovore Aegla will absolutely 100% just turn into a predator and eat the baby trout if given half a chance. this could have turned out really bad, but luckily crabs can do whatever they want, including burrowing into the invasive trout nests to eat their eggs. I'm proud of them

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The kindergarten-ification of society

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"Single people are on average less healthy, less financially stable, and overall less satisfied with life than partnered and married people are. This must mean that monogamous relationships and marriage are the solution to society's problems"

Huh, it's almost like society, both socially and financially, is set up to specifically benefit people who have monogamous relationships and get married and punish people who don't partner or get married. It's almost like there are financial benefits that exist specifically to incentivize people to get married and have kids and be a nuclear family. It's almost like it was very culturally normal until very very very recently to just not have any deeper platonic relationships after you get married, meaning that single people past a certain age just get left behind and get treated as spinsters or loser bachelors. It's like life just is not designed for single people to be able to easily participate and survive while still being single. Huh, very weird. I'm sure marriage will fix this.

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This is a result of the inhumane decisions that members of this administration want you to be silent about in public for fear of a loss of “civility”.

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Projecting my irl nat1 onto Karlach sorry

act 2 revelations

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More hornets and another maskless quirrel

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Worm thing and his gianthuge tree wife

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dream cheating and having awful opinions about speedrunning again. fork found in kitchen

[cameraclown06]

Things you can watch/do instead of YouTube, For those who may have trouble finding things to do.

1. Internet Archive. Has plenty of videos to watch, plenty of games you can play that are emulated right on the website. You can also find entire collections of roms. For emulators, check out Emulation General Wiki to find the best emulator for the system you want to emulate.

2. r/piracy has a wiki full of safe places to read comics and manga, to watch anime and cartoons, and to watch movies.

3. Virtualbox, you can set up a Windows XP virtual box and get old PC games from Internet Archive. You can also check out CD Game World if you need a no-cd patch.

4. Saltybet. A Livestream of MUGEN with thousands of characters fighting against each other, sometimes things get hilarious. Runs 24/7.

5. The Cutting Room Floor, spend hours reading up on cut content from your favorite games.

6. Lost Media Wiki, read up on lost movie, books, animation, video games, etc.

7. Neocities, learn coding and make your own website!

8. WebDSR, explore shortband radio

9. Radio Garden, listen to radio stations from around the world

10. Every Noise At Once, explore the widest archive of music genres, with samples and Spotify playlists

11. My Retro TV, pick and era and watch popular television from that time period

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slow down for your disabled friends. thats like a bare minimum kindness that we shouldnt have to ask for. i love that youre so quirky and walking fast is a cool personality trait to you and all that but i bet you can count your physically disabled friends on less than one hand

[cameraclown06]

Hey, do you guys know this meme?

Cartoonist Roger Langridge on Bluesky just tracked down the original source, which I'd never seen before until now.

It's from Space Adventures #59, November 1964, with art by Charles Nicholas and Vince Alascia.

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