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They're putting these crappy ads e-v-e-r-y-w-h-e-r-e.

The quality of ads on YouTube has fallen to somewhere beneath the sewer, just as YouTube has launched a scorched-earth campaign against adblockers. Scams, celebrity impersonation, AI-generated nonsense, AI-generated nonsense promoting AI nonsense generators. YouTube's ad inventory is a vast wasteland of festering, unmoderated dreck.


...towards reality. The "free speech absolutist" guy got his little feelings hurt again.


> “If you want to build something people will use, don’t build anything,” he said. “Build an ad and see if people click it. Then only build something once it gets a lot of clicks.”

Well no wonder your Google ads keep getting banned.


There's no indication that Trump is a multi-billionaire but the rest of your comment is spot on.


And not a true one, either.

I don't know what the hell Reddit is doing the past couple of weeks but they seem determined to completely destroy themselves, and quickly.


O'Boyle isn't a whistleblower; he's an insubordinate employee who refused to do his job and was improperly distributing information about investigations.


Will this not be subject to the same limitations reddit is imposing on RedReader and others? I guess I don't know enough about how they distinguish a "third-party app" versus a website hooking into their API.


Exactly the same limitations


If Cloudflare has decided that Firefox is a "non-mainstream browser" and is applying a penalty to its users, then Cloudflare is the problem.


The end user chose to use Firefox. The service provider is free to do as they please, it's their infrastructure and your access to it is at their discretion.

Don't like it? Use Privacy Pass or pick another set of compromises.

With that said, when I was still willing to subject myself to Mozilla in any form, I never found CloudFlare to be a problem, and I've used it since it launched. If people use Firefox, they're probably a privacy wonk LARPing an imagined threat model, and are using a shitty cheap VPN used by countless attackers, it's unlikely to be the browser itself unless they're doing something weird with extensions.


> Don't like it? Use Privacy Pass or pick another set of compromises

Nah. I'll just not use the website. They obviously don't want me there anyway.


I've done this, with CAPTCHA screens and advertiser-induced cookie stalking. The worst offenders end up in PiHole.

I'm sure nobody cares about my blocks, but we've got to start somewhere if we want websites to change their behaviour.


And yet only the other day you posted a link to a site behind CloudFlare: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35643933

I'm confident you use CloudFlare every day, many times per day.


I'm sure I do. What I meant was that when I hit a snag with a captcha, I'll just move on. I'm not going to wrestle with it. I can take a hint.


this is the way


> If people use Firefox, they're probably a privacy wonk LARPing an imagined threat model, and are using a shitty cheap VPN used by countless attackers

What kind of nonsense is this? Firefox is a mainstream browser used by millions of people every day. Maybe you're confusing it with Tor?


Yes, this is annoying as hell. It's gotten to the point where I just close out of a site when I see that interstitial come up.


yeah, same here. ( for example, I can't access forum.xda-developers.com anymore.


Are you saying that the SacBee article is misrepresenting something to "manipulate" people? What does it purport to be true that's not true?

The only problem GPT is fit to solve is an empty hard drive you'd like to have filled with random, useless garbage. But I don't understand how GPT is germane to this goat escapade in the first place.


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