Twitter C/D

Do you need Argentinian and Turkish credit cards to do that?

xp

just download youtube revanced for free from github for ad-free youtube. There are other versions floating about that are apparently the work of Russian hackers rammed with malware. I accidentally downloaded one and thankfully there are no paypal/bank details on the tablet I did it on. Annoyingly the hacker version worked perfectly! Revanced sometimes takes 3 or 4 attempts to open it, and is a work in progress but once you get it running it works perfectly.

It's only an issue for me on my smart TV which seems more or less unhackable

Having said that, the distribution of ads is very random. Can watch whole movies ad free. The Fall of Civilisations podcasts which are mostly 2 hours plus have a very few well spaced out ad breaks. Then I'll try watching some old documentary that's been uploaded probably illegal and there'll be ads literally every five minutes - I just give up on those, obv

xxp - no, I just put in an Argentinian address I looked up online for Youtube. Visa stopped working but Mastercard is still fine. With Adobe I had to VPN into Turkey to sign up but used my regular address when paying. Once signup was complete it doesn't seem to care where I log in to the Adobe site or connect through the Adobe download app.

this is what being a real actual pirate in the early 1700s was like

but then you'd have to bury your copy of Adobe on a remote caribbean island

The Fall of Civilisations podcasts which are mostly 2 hours plus have a very few well spaced out ad breaks.

― Tyler Perry's Cystitis (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, November 22, 2023 4:19 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

shoutout fall of civilizations

Fwiw YouTube actually pays pretty well by the standards of streaming. This is not like subscribing to Spotify and giving $0.00001 per thousand listens. If you’re just using it to watch pirated tinker tailor soldier spy and music videos then fine. But if you’re watching “creators” and you’re doing workarounds like the above then consider paying?

no.

google should just give them money

I don't want to ruin my imaginary relationship with asmr people by finding out they're doing it for the money

https://64.media.tumblr.com/f8a93e00da64a5d613d6ee62f01a605e/ee01cc6e2192da38-cd/s1280x1920/c827d479d6ebdbccbe7b1329f0d47c2a03f340cf.pnj

google should just give them money

― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 22, 2023 9:23 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it does, but it gives significantly them more money when a subscriber watches than when anyone else does.

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/x-advertising-lawsuit-media-matters-musk/

One user, Avi Bueno, called out Twitter CEO Linda Yacarrino, who defended the lawsuit by posting the same claim that “Not a single authentic user on X saw IBM’s, Comcast’s, or Oracle’s ads next to the content in Media Matters’ article. Only 2 users saw Apple’s ad next to the content.”

“Linda cannot be genuinely making this claim,” they wrote.

“It took me about 30 seconds to find X placing advertisements for @TheAthletic, @ShopTemu, @ActionNetworkHQ, and @Visit_NJ alongside a search for ‘killjews,'” he said. “This place is broken and advertisers should be worried.”

All these gotchas are for words like “heilhitler” and “killjews” which aren’t even real words

Like, look, I want Twitter to fail as much as the next guy, but we’re going to have to do better than typing like “cheesepizza”

are pizzerias Nazis?

one cheesepizza pleasewith extracheesepizza

All these gotchas are for words like “heilhitler” and “killjews” which aren’t even real words

Those gotchas were only intended to refute the validity of Yacarino's specific numerical claims**, which Avi Bueno intended to show are unverifiable in a system the size of Xitter.

**“Not a single authentic user on X saw IBM’s, Comcast’s, or Oracle’s ads next to the content in Media Matters’ article. Only 2 users saw Apple’s ad next to the content.”

twitter does know exactly how many user see what ads on what pages, in response to what searches, and next to what posts. whether what yaccarino says is true or not is another matter, but they do have that information.

those gotchas don't prove the letter of what yaccarino is saying wrong. and they're not saying "you find nazi stuff if you search for nazi stuff", which has always been true. they do support media matters point, i.e. users who viewed obviously racist stuff (either by searching for vile stuff and weird hashtags, or clicking around) got shown some pretty mainstream ads, by advertisers who probably don't want their stuff shown there.

most sites have a systems that prevent ads being shown next to certain topics/words. either twitter has removed this guardrail, or there is so much more of the nazi stuff that a system with a 1% failure rate seems a lot worse because there's a lot more opportunities to fail. in either case, nazi vibes.

Whiney, hashtags work by running words together like that.

last night Jimmy Kimmel did a bit on this stuff during his monologue and he referred to it by it's new name, X. it sounds so goddamn stupid when said out loud like that.

bluesky should rebrand as 'sever'

Whiney, hashtags work by running words together like that.

Elon starting to whine a lot about this one as well:

https://www.newsguardtech.com/misinformation-monitor/november-2023/

also their system should be flexible and intelligent enough to read concatenated words

What's that line, a hit dog don't holler?

Duh, hit dog will holler. Adolf Hitdog.

Death was my only wish for 10 years. Depression had me in an unbreakable choke hold.

Giving thanks today that I now feel an insatiable thirst for life. Sending you all🫶🏻 pic.twitter.com/Yv8bO5e2gD

— Zero (@bryan_johnson) November 23, 2023

He says this while living a life that sounds absolutely joyless and hellish. OK then.

that statement/picture combo is a+

there was that duty-free store billionaire who gave away all his money and lived in a modest apartment for the remainder of his life and never let anyone know he was doing it. and there’s this guy who probably could have just hired a dietician/chef and is putting his son’s blood in him and posting through it for clout and the former is respectable and the latter very funny

Zhang Yong 张勇
@zhangyong02
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15 day no tsingtao

am please help mental peril

My timeline is suddenly filled with accounts dedicated to robberies gone wrong and people falling off boats and similar

a followed one diesel-train-a-day account a few days ago and now my feed is full of dmus and steam trains (and OO-HO models of same)

Jonathan
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Bored of community notes. Just let me enjoy some lies

twitter stringing along these terrible people by sending them random amounts of money is pretty funny

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:qtopjld4jf72ekg4oyco3gft/bafkreibrxt6ishvpx6upgz6okspbkxpfqwuc45qnuqba32uo3ge6nlyvey@jpeg

speaking the cold late stage capitalism financial truth to those who aspire to have 800k followers

800k was my big dream. now i feel like i'm lost

funniest thing reading the responses to that post is that no-one is blaming elon for any of twitter's problems.

Dom Lucre - I see Martin Amis is still coming up with them from his grave.

This explainer on Myanmar was something, especially the role of...telescamming

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1720022978350735417.html

I've been relatively successful at staying off Twitter the last week or so, which means I am relatively uninfirmed about the latest super-racist tweet Elon has dropped.

Uninformed. Uninfirm is what I am.

css, nice

https://i.imgur.com/CCVKxOB.png

hell yeah

honestly it makes the site look better and it's more transparent

hah, Josh Fruhlinger is one of the few good guys still on there I see

He's pretty active on Bluesky too

going great!

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/technology/elon-musk-dealbook-advertisers.html

At least half a dozen marketing agencies said the brands they represent were standing firm against advertising on X, while others said they had advised advertisers to stop posting anything on the platform. Some temporary spending pauses that advertisers have enacted in recent weeks against X are likely to turn into permanent freezes, they added, with Mr. Musk’s comments giving them no incentive to return.

Advertisers are “not coming back” to X, said Lou Paskalis, the founder and chief executive of AJL Advisory, a marketing consultancy. “There is no advertising value that would offset the reputational risk of going back on the platform.”