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YouTube cracking on ad blockers.
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It's an end of an era. I've been on reddit for over a decade, and on youtube for even longer. Crazy to think I might be giving up both of those services within a few months of each other. Feels like the internet is dying. Oh well. Maybe I'll go back to reading a shitload.
I've been reading a lot more lately, and dear god, for your own sake, please do. I've been so much happier and less anxious reading books vs random internet garbage. Highly recommend.
Clearly you're reading actual books, don't drop down the webnovel rabbit hole. All those damn stories are designed to scratch an itch you never knew you had until you're subbed to a dozen patreon's paying way more than if you'd waited for a book release.
That's good to hear. I've started reading Leonard and Hungry Paul and I like it so far. I've also started reading China Mieville's The City and the City, which is also good, but Mieville has this weird thing where the more plot his novels have the worse they are. He's great at describing a city as a living, breathing thing, though. That's why the best parts of Perdido Street Station were the first 100 pages or so before the actual story really got started. Hopefully this novel doesn't suffer from the same problems.
What about you, what have you been reading?
not dying, evolving
Rejuvenating. It's the circle of life. The old have to die so that new life can spring from their corpses.
Evolution implies that old things die and new things take their place, so those are not mutually exclusive concepts. The thing taking its place is comparatively worse than the thing that came before it, though. Which is fucking annoying, but oh well.
Same I've been on YouTube since at least 2006 so almost 18 years 😭 (I'm turning 30 soon for reference) That's a long ass time to be using any service. Times have changed
I'm wondering whether all these things we do on the internet have been shit all along but they have just reached a threshold we can't tolerate any more, no matter how addicted we are to it. Torrenting ebooks and films and then going into aeroplane mode is the way forward imo.
I still use YouTube as an indexer and redirect any watch-links to an Invidious instance.
Last time I checked, those are mostly limited to 720p. Is there a way to have 1080p over there, or am I missing something?
Depends on the instance, same as with livestream playback. You can check out active instances here and then just use one that does support 1080p.