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by ajayyy 4y ago
There is a setting to avoid skipping segments below X seconds if that's something you prefer. There is also an option to not skip anything if there is a full video sponsorship label, which probably will help in the scenario you are des
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by ajayyy 4y ago
ActivityPub does not handle old posts. This post number is the number of posts since at least one person on that instance followed them. Before that, the instance didn't know they existed ActivityPub is a publisher/subscriber prot
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by ajayyy 4y ago
MV2 will be disabled by default Chrome in January 2023, and the flag to reenable it will be removed in June
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by ajayyy 4y ago
I was simply saying that sponsorships incentivize those bad behaviors Labeling something on a timeline, or skipping it, does prevent someone from deceptively convincing you to follow through with the action they want. If you have an idea on
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by ajayyy 4y ago
> isn't the ethical course of action to stop consuming their content. No, I don't believe so, abd that's the fundamental disagreement https://giveup.ajay.app/ here's some fun satire of taking that opi
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by ajayyy 4y ago
There is no money you can pay to get the same experience as SponsorBlock. Some channels are offering "sponsor-free" content on exclusive sites such as Nebula, CorridorDigital.com and Floatplane, but I've checked all of these
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by ajayyy 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20781415 The thing that sparked the idea was a badly disclosed sponsorship. The saving time bits are great, and that's why there's more features now than just ads, you can skip
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by ajayyy 4y ago
I am perfectly happy paying for content
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by ajayyy 4y ago
> Do you believe that sponsorships are worse that targeted digital advertising? With podcasts, it seems people are now trying to get the worst of both worlds, with dynamic advertisements from a pool based on who you are + the ads are rea
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by ajayyy 4y ago
Sponsorships encourage deception (tricking the user into not skipping) and building up parasocial relationships with the audience to abuse their trust, the worst of the influencer world I made SponsorBlock, and over the years working on it,
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by ajayyy 4y ago
Has Apple shown a list of raw app entitlements? They always prefer "simplicity" to user control
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by ajayyy 4y ago
If you are naking open source software, you can use minio for free, otherwise you have to pay them money. If it was proprietary, that would not be the case You also are free to study and learn from the code
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by ajayyy 4y ago
On Android, they solved this with "Custom Tabs", which is an API that opens a nicely integrated webview with extra buttons added by the app (like a tweet button) but internally is the default browser. Almost all apps use this now.
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by ajayyy 4y ago
Safari extensions only work with Safari, but there is a jailbreak tweak and a sideloaded app you can use to modify the official app
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by ajayyy 4y ago
These models are trained on lots and lots of science fiction stories, of course they know how to autocomplete questions about AI ethics in ominous ways
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by ajayyy 4y ago
Yes, but it's easier to selfhost Pleroma, which is fully compatible with Mastodon, but lighter weight for small instances
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by ajayyy 5y ago
This is a thing in Toronto. There also is a similar senario for all school buses where traffic in both directions must stop. But that might be detectable by the stop sign.
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by ajayyy 5y ago
If I understand this correctly, this just blocks Ads from the service itself, not #ad posts by users. uBlock Origin already does this, and pretty much any other ad blocker using [EasyList]( https://easylist.to/ )
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by ajayyy 5y ago
That is loaded by Discord's server, not the local client. They likely are mainly referring to 3rd party scripts.
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by ajayyy 5y ago
Still possible to fix with SponsorBlock, but just makes the skips feel more awkward unfortunately. There is also mute segments to help make these more seemless
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by ajayyy 5y ago
to link between the facebook app and other apps with the facebook ads sdk
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by ajayyy 5y ago
If I want to upgrade only one account, then I can't just "cancel" the service. This means I must delete all other accounts, losing purchases on them. It's an all or nothing thing.
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by ajayyy 5y ago
uBlock != uBlock Origin uBlock is a scam https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock_Origin#uBlock https://ublock.org
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by ajayyy 5y ago
If you made software that took a legally obtained copy of "The Hobbit", modified it locally according to a scripted patch, then displayed that to the user, then that would be similar. Adblocking happens locally. This is similar to
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by ajayyy 5y ago
It is officially one "team" now https://eyeo.com/teaming-up-for-new-products-the-teams-behin... Historically, it always seemed like it was one company though as Adblock codebase has been based on Adblock plus code
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by ajayyy 5y ago
There is a different image per eye, so much more precise than that
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by ajayyy 5y ago
SponsorBlock is completely tied to my real identity, why would I want to destroy my reputation for relatively little gain.
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by ajayyy 5y ago
The founder sued him for it. The result of the lawsuit leaves him as a co-founder legally
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by ajayyy 5y ago
It is probably based off GPT-3 with a layer on top trained for programming specifically, like what is done with AI dungeon.
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by ajayyy 5y ago
SO is CC BY-SA https://stackoverflow.com/help/licensing

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