Notably, a cosmetologist requires 2-3 times more training than police officers in the US. The only two countries with lower training requirements are Iraq and Afghanistan. Stories like this post, the acorn incident, and shooting into that ladies house, start to make a lot more sense with that context, eh?
Storage units are terrible about this shit too. They advertise $30/mo and after fees you’re paying closer to $50/mo.
Companies wonder why people use adblockers; this is my experience trying to read this article on mobile without an adblocker:
Picture of the outside of the building.
Three paragraphs, each composed of a single sentence.
Ad.
Two paragraphs, each composed of a single sentence.
Ad.
A teaser block trying to get me read another article on their site.
Ad.
A stock photo of a public bathroom with mirrors.
A teaser trying to get me to follow them on Google News.
A single sentence with eight words.
Ad.
Another sentence, which is a quote from a school admin.
Ad.
Two paragraphs, each consisting of one sentence each.
Teaser block trying to get me to read more articles on their site.
A stock photo of some social media platform logos.
A trending block with links to more articles on their garbage site.
Two more paragraphs, each consisting of one sentence each.
A distracting carrousel of images that are links to more articles on their site.
Two more paragraphs, one of which actually has two sentences!
Links to their social media.
Is that the end of the article? I think so, but I’ve missed things before, so better keep scrolling a bit just in case.
Related articles section.
Ad.
Ad that looks like a link to another article.
Ad that looks like a link to another article.
Ad that looks like a link to another article.
Link to another article.
Ad.
Comments section.
Editors pick section of articles.
Ad.
Ad.
Okay, pretty sure I’ve read the entire article now, but let’s keep scrolling to see how far this bullshit goes.
Ad that looks like a link to another article.
Ad that looks like a link to another article.
Link to another article.
And then the following pattern SIX times:
Ad.
Link to another article.
Link to another article.
Link to another article.
Ad that looks like a link to another article.
FINALLY a whole bunch of links to other articles, some of which are promoted by Taboola, whatever the fuck that is.
And the entire time there was a red popup for “breaking news” taking up 1/5 of the screen.
For those keeping track at home, the article was a total of fourteen sentences, one photo of the school, and two stock photos. And no photo of a bathroom without mirrors.
Cheaper than a kid!
Why not both!
Depends on what you are using it for.
“The general fair use definition is that fair use is any use of a work that is not done in an effort to profit from the copyrighted work.”
Maybe I’m misunderstanding, but surely you aren’t grouping this guy with the likes of Veritasium, Smarter Every Day, Steve Mould, or Cody’s Lab (just to name a few)? “Content creators” is a pretty broad brush.
Edit: I think I understand now. The quotes are air quotes; you don’t mean all content creators, but ones that create garbage content, like reaction videos, malicious pranks on strangers, etc., and call themselves “content creators”, right? If that’s what you meant, then sorry for my initial assumption!
For anyone looking for good YT channels, here are some more of my favorite actual content creators: Simone Giertz, Steve Wallis, Matthias Wandel, and Vice Grip Garage.
If you don’t own it when paying for it then you aren’t stealing it when pirating it.
What are you saying? We’re not supposed to form ignorant mobs with pitchforks?
Drivers Tend To Kill Pedestrians At Night. Thermal Imaging May Help.
Thermal imaging will definitely help spot those dirty walkers so I won’t miss as many. Those bastards can blend in sometimes and some of them are deceptively quick. The little ones especially are tough to take out. Of course, sometimes those guys just run right in front of you which are easy points but it takes the sport out of it.
Anyway, it’s about time someone put the right tools in the hands of us hunters. I can’t wait to have an evening cruise with my lights off and really get a good stalk on, you know?
I don’t believe that ad blockers modify the user agent, so if you can modify the user agent of FF to emulate Chrome and solve the issue, then that means Chrome users that use ad blockers don’t have to deal with the delay and therefore their claim that they aren’t punishing FF users his utter horse shit.
Sure. When I go to “opensubtitles.org” I get redirected to the login page. Here’s the screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/bhGTeC1
Edit: After I login, it works as you described, by the way. It’s not really a big deal; I was just surprised that it started happening since I hadn’t seen any mention of that change anywhere. I’m even more surprised that it isn’t happening to everyone.
…okay? I was just making an observation.
Really? Every time I visit, it asks me to sign in. Maybe it’s by region or something?
You used to be able to download without signing up.
Edit: Apparently not everyone is being asked to login like me now. I’m not sure if it’s a regional thing or maybe my VPN is triggering something?
I’ve been cursed with his gift my whole life. Grammatical errors and spelling errors and typos stand out to me like neon signs.
Are you sure about that?
encode ads as part of the video file
I suspect that an AI could be trained to be able to recognize ads, or at least the most annoying, ads.
Also, a community driven project, like SponsorBlock, where users identify ads to build up a database could be created.
These are just a couple of ideas to defeat embedded ads, and I’m not a genius programmer by any means. This is just another front in a war that has been going on since at least the 90’s and as long as blocking ads is less annoying than watching them, we’re winning.
you now have a useless device in your brain
I think that if you are one of the first to volunteer for this, then you probably wouldn’t notice.
But what am I going to do while I’m pooping!? Read the news!?
Is it a Rick Roll if you expect it?