I mean, I know that this is kind of beside the point, but like… the citizens of Gaza are in a permanent state of stress, to the point where psychologists don’t even like to use the term “post-traumatic stress disorder” because that would imply that the traumatic part isn’t ongoing and hasn’t been ongoing for decades; more than that, they’re malnourished and have been for years, leading to a huge amount of stunting and wasting in children. And on top of THAT, it needs hardly be remarked that the Israeli government keeps bombing their fucking schools and hospitals! And then you turn around and say “These people that we’ve been keeping stressed and underfed and poor and uneducated for decades have a low IQ; These people whose movement we tightly control and basically keep in an open air prison tend to marry people who are relatively closely related to them.” Well fuck you, you Nazi bastard, I wonder who made them that way!
you know when irish people were fighting for freedom the rebels were never considered revolutionaries or freedom fighters. we had only ever been called terrorists by the british government, because when you call a people fighting for their rights and their freedoms terrorists you can distance yourself from them. people aren’t fighting because they’ve been radicalised by 800 years of colonialism or 75 years of brutal settler imperialism, they’re fighting because they’re dirty terrorists trying to hurt our democracy and kill our children. and now we don’t have any responsibility to reckon with the years of subjugation and settler violence and attempted genocide, because how can you expect us to deal with terrorists? the same story repeats itself over and over n it’s shocking how people will eat it up every time when it comes to protecting and maintaining western power.
Copy and pasting from Reddit user Mike J Smith on the Reddit page for ublock origin, an adblocker extension:
Condensed Update for Newcomers:
YT is making a concerted anti-adblock push via a tattler script tied to a “3 strikes and you’re out” style warning message.
Each time you click on a video that WOULD have shown you ads, the tattler script detects that you blocked it and you’re given a warning popup. This can be X'ed out of quickly, it’s just a warning.
After 3 warnings on a given account, it no longer allows you to close the warning popup, thus acting as a soft block on that YT account until YT’s tattler script no longer detects ad-block running. As of right now, it does not lock your other Google services and it does not count as a traditional account ban.
To protect the new tattler script from our jamming efforts, YT is also updating it at least once a day and sometimes multiple times, basically trying to force us into a war of attrition in coding hours. This naturally has put a MASSIVE strain on the volunteer team and will probably result in extended outages on YT as they try to keep up. They are holding their own, but just barely.
None of the uBO team are paid for this, they are volunteers with day jobs. The success of their efforts will depend largely on what YouTube decides to do next, because fighting their legions of paid coders off indefinitely would be impossible. If YouTube wants to kill adblock forever with sheer force, it’s within their power - we are all hoping they’re just “shaking the tree” to see what falls out and they’ll stop once their accountants are satisfied.
The soft block is only tied to the individual account, not the IP. Thus, FreeTube still works fine and you can still view videos logged out. If you export your history, subs and playlists to Freetube, the only thing you’ve really lost is your ability to comment. I miss it, but not enough to give $20 a month to a pack of scavenging vultures.
So What Do I Do Now???
Look at the original post in the original thread, find the bold headline midway down that says “I followed the 4 steps, but I’m still experiencing issues”. Directly below that is a line that says “The latest fix for anti-adblock was made on [date] and currently corresponds to ID [xxxxxxx]”.
The ID refers to the version of YouTube’s tattler script that it is capable of defeating. Compare that number to the bottom line on this list: https://pastefy.app/G1Txv5su/raw. The listings look like: “https://www.youtube.com/s/desktop/ea2534f4/jsbin/desktop_polymer_css_polymer_serving_disabled.vflset/desktop_polymer_css_polymer_serving_disabled.js”. The bolded portion is the ID number you want to compare it to.
If the numbers are the same, then the tattler has been temporarily neutralized by the volunteer team. Once you purge and update your caches, soft locked accounts will be open again and no warnings will be issued. Use it while you can. Don’t forget to purge & update or it won’t work.
If the numbers don’t match, the volunteer team hasn’t caught up yet and the tattler script is still active. You will still be warned and soft-blocked. Give them 4-5 hours to catch up.
Speaking as a professional YouTuber, absolutely use whatever adblocking tools you want and circumvent YouTube’s stupid garbage paywalls. I don’t know a single creator who would not turn all ads off forever if they could afford it.
If there’s a creator you want to support, throwing a single dollar at their Patreon ONE TIME counts for the same as watching more than a THOUSAND ads on their videos. If instead of paying for Premium, you distribute $20 among your 20 favourite YouTubers, you as an individual have done more to support them than YouTube’s ad systems ever could or would.
I hate when people describe not IMMEDIATELY responding as “ghosting.” Like “they totally ghosted me, and then when they finally texted back three hours later…” stop right there. That is not ghosting. I will teach you the meaning of ghosting
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