Posted on 10/15/2023 1:11:41 PM PDT by ducttape45
Or for novices working on their own cars who need to be shown what to do,and some of us just like to watch and listen to cars we could never hope to own be driven, or watch historical trains roll through the countryside... Most reside in Wyoming, and I don’t live there.
There are many applications for videos.
And, ads are counterproductive.
I avoid all the ads I can. If somehow an ad sneaks through, I immediately shut down the ad by closing that browser tab and I form an extremely negative opinion of the company sponsoring the ad.
And theft of copyright material.
I use an operating system called zorin.
(I get the you tube message all the time)
top right has a clock I just wait for it to go around then it turns into an X.
i then delete message and continue on with you tube
You have to add some code to Brave Shields Filters page , I don’t know if it works yet
I saw video the other day that Elon Musk said as child he read constantly, all the time. Read read read.
Smart man
BZZZZZZZTTTTT.........wrong.
I use Brave, and where the Adblocker previously was effective, it no longer is, and I get warned for every YouTube site I visit.
Because the YouTubers make much $$$$ (the successful channels), they really don't have a similar platform for their content, elsewhere (yes; they have instagram accounts, some X (Twitter) accounts, etc.) that generate the $$$ their YouTube content does. SOME have started to duplicate-post their content on Rumble, seeing the coming censorship and control contortions at YouTube, but not all have given up hope.
4 Ways to Bypass Ad Blockers are Not Allowed on YouTube
I got the code inserted into both Brave and uBlock. So far I haven't received the message in Brave, but I did in a different Chromium based browser. If you try it, let me know if it helps.
Even though I think the statement Chad C. Mulligan made is too overarching, I readily concede to him that the pathway of visually reading text to solidly accumulate and store information is likely the best one.
People read and comprehend at varying levels, but I found over the course of my life that nothing compares to reading at being able to cogitate on the material and store it long term where it is more readily available for retrieval and use.
Audio is okay, but not nearly as good. Visual can pack different types of spatial or other knowledge which (in my opinion) stores reasonably well, but doesn’t have nearly the depth that text has.
It is true that men are visually-oriented and women are verbally-oriented, but in all cases, different pathways for information intake are often variable in the degree they are open or closed in people, regardless of gender or race.
It has been a sadness for me that I can no longer read as I used to. It isn’t that I can’t read for ten minutes, break for ten minutes and read for ten more, etc, but in doing that, the pathway for taking in, processing, and storing of information is not open long enough.
I have thought long on this, and I believe that when you read, you need time to build that pathway for information. Each time you begin to read, you have, at best, a rough, overgrown, and unpaved road. (at least for me, others may be different)
As you begin to read, the overgrowth of vegetation is pushed back, the road is graded, asphalt is laid down, and guard rails placed not just to keep you on the road, but to keep other things off the road.
The longer you read, the smoother is the road, the higher the throughput of the road, and the more solidly what you read on that road is registered in your brain.
I think most people who enjoy reading know this.
Who, in becoming engrossed in a book has never found those guardrails so high, that road so smooth and unobstructed, that time and place disappear, the hours melt away, and you live what you read. You become aware that it is now 4 AM, and you have been reading all night. You retain, understand, and enjoy that book in ways that you rarely can with a movie or video, and even more rarely with audio.
Sigh. I miss that. I cannot read in that fashion anymore. I cannot construct that road in my mind. Reading has become more of a chore than a pleasure, and it breaks my heart. I used to go on a weeks vacation, and I would bring five full novels with me, and finish them all. Now, to read one novel, I have to work at it, and it takes me months, and I don’t enjoy it.
Oh well. If that is one of the crosses I must bear as I age, that isn’t the worst of them, for certain.
I put the scripts in. It hasn’t broken anything, so that is a start. I’ll try to let you know if I get anymore messages.
With 1/1000th of the content unfortunately. Youtube(and google) is like microsoft. They got in early and cornered the market.
I use uBlock and haven’t had a problem yet. I also use Enhancer for Youtube which also does ad blocking plus allows customization of your youtube viewing/experience.
I won’t do the 1 minute ad to watch a 10 minute video. Will do without if need be. I have a youtube downloader I can try as a last resort. Might download them minus ads.
I could tolerate the ads when they were just 15 seconds...then they started leading into infomercials going for hours. You’re right...the problem’s not the ads in and of themselves, it’s the level of obnoxiousness that goes with them.
If YouTube enforces this...no more streaming music from them AFAIC.
It is neither. Both of those words deprive the owner of its use and benefits.
Skipping ads is like walking out of the room during commercials.
I’ve never heard of Enhancer for Youtube. Is that a chromium extension, or is it available for a Mozilla browser as well?
Both. I use it with waterfox/firefox but I see it’s available for Chromium based browsers, Chrome, Brave, Edge. Yes, MS Edge is now Chromium based.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=Enhancer+for+Youtube&ia=web
“Cable TV was pay for no commercials-”
My wife and I remember that, too. “Buy cable TV, get no commercials!’ That promise was never fulfilled.
I saw the listing in the Chrome webstore, but there are some comments there that are unsettling. Some say it works, others say it don’t. Not sure what to believe.
I usually listen to a long piece of classical music or an old 80’s rock concert. I might get one or two commercials at the beginning but that is about it. I ain’t listening to Taylor Swift. It is a minor nuisance.
"So Freetube works just like Youtube?"
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