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I get using a hardtail with a bbshd as a moped replacement or whatever, but who the fuck wants to go highway speed on a bike frame?

Yet another fake currency for drug dealers.

Well yeah you don’t wanna make illegal online transactions with a fake currency the government owns.

Plus that ones got an encrypted ledger so its got a real use case there.

That being said if you got a problem with drug dealers, where the fuck do you get your drugs?

Image Recognition could attatch the first frame of an ad to the length of time the ad plays for, then add it to an online DB a la sponserblock.

They might try to block seeking during these sections, but YouTube usually has raw mp4 streams available under the hood. You can even pull them using invidious or newpipe. Take that out and we might be fucked.

I could sit here and throw out all the bad shit YouTube’s done but quite honestly the fact that its owned by google is enough justification to not give them money lmao.

I don’t know youd be able to do it within a browser extension but something like newpipe or yt-dlp?

Public Invidious Instances would be tough because that’s a lot of load to stick on a server, especially one run by a hobbiest. But self-hosted single/low user instances could also feasibly do this.

Obviously its gonna take a good bit of work, but it IS doable.

Its bad enough they use widevine on their free movies/shows but the idea of them requiring widevine for regular YouTube sounds awful.

Hopefully legacy clients/devices will stave that off until something else comes along.

Be careful saying shit like Stallman was right. Dude did some important shit, spearheaded the formation of the free software movement.

Then again he’s also a pedo , or at the very least a pedo sympathizer.

Edit: He’s never been accused of physically doing anything, calling him an actual pedophile feels innapropriate.

Yeah I probably wouldn’t have said anything if it was just the emails…

“I am skeptical of the claim that voluntarily pedophilia harms children. The arguments that it causes harm seem to be based on cases which aren’t voluntary, which are then stretched by parents who are horrified by the idea that their little baby is maturing.”

Admittedly calling him a pedophile was a mistake. There’s no proof, and no ones ever come out against him.

That being said he’s made comments in the past sympathising with pedophiles, and only rescinded it after it publicly became an issue.

That logic only works out if you think “consensual” sex between minors and adults (eww) is a thing.

If you fuck kids, or want to, congrats. You’re a pedophile.

If you defend the position of such pedophiles, by “attacking the definition” you are, by definition, sympathising with pedophiles.

I’ve seen it done, can be a PITA to manage but worth it for the lack of stupid shit from custies IMO.