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What lurking suspicion do you have about something but is hard to prove? (piefed.social)

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I'm under the impression that Google deliberately hinders their YouTube platform just because you have ad-blockers. With videos taking time to buffer, seems to signal this, because it almost makes up nearly the amount of time for when ads take if you had to watch them. So since you're ad-blocking and they don't like that, they'll make your experience miserable until you want to pay their service or not use ad-block.

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[-] EVIL_MAN@lemmy.zip 1 points 10 hours ago

The difference between truth and lies doesn't matter, it is all in the way people behave. Our culture is being manipulated by techniques that cannot be communicated to the masses because of strawmen put up in the media. The people who spread misinformation and propaganda know how it works better than you do and you are falling for their traps regardless of whether or not you believe it. The vast majority of people believe they aren't sheep no matter how obviously they are. Weaknesses in people's psychology are propagated and abused and this has happened for all of recorded history. We are led by herd mentality, people don't have to willingly do anything as long as they see other people doing the same thing.

But that's just speculation and cannot be proven by science, lol.

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