Youtube’s Anti-adblock and uBlock Origin
Recently, YouTube has been ramping up its anti-adblock effort, and I’ve been watching this closely due to personal interest. This blog post is where I write down what I know.
https://andadinosaur.com/youtube-s-anti-adblock-and-ublock-origin
i opened 17776 to show part of it to some peeps here
and
fucking hell i forgot how good it is
give it a browse if you havent already
The old gatekeepers of music made it complicated. The answer is half of Skip and Flip: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Oop_(song)
Which is the original, and which are the covers? Or are they all three covers of a single that never made it onto Billboard's charts?
On 1960-05-30, two singles titled "Alley-Oop" broke into the Billboard Hot 100: one by the Hollywood Argyles, the other by Dante and the Evergreens. They reached their peak positions, #1 and #15 respectively, in the same week as well: 1960-07-11.
A third version by the Dyna-Sores premiered the week after the first two (1960-06-06), but it peaked at #59 and lasted only three weeks.
All three versions are about the comic strip character, have virtually identical lyrics, & are in the same style.
@mavica_again There's a lot to unpack here.
@eevee I can't help but think "a code" is what programmers catch when they get sick.
Okay, so there's a technicality. I could also install Firefox from the Android subsystem's Google Play app, but it would be the phone/tablet version, not a desktop/laptop version, which means the UX, UI, & add-on ecosystem are significantly restricted.
@arielmt assuming the distribution you're on has manpages and the software to render them installed by default!
The only reason I use flatpak at all is because, in Google's tightly controlled walled garden of ChromeOS, it's literally the only way to install Firefox.
Mozilla Support, "Run Firefox on ChromeOS": https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/run-firefox-chromeos
The flatpak "app" system has always felt like amateurish techbro crap to me, but today I finally put my finger on why.
The website is loaded with how-tos for installing it & packaged applications ("apps"), but there's not even a hint of how to maintain, manage, remove, or update them.
It has a set of halfway decent manpages that *do* say how to do these things, but there's literally zero reference! You have to just know they exist, & you have to just know `man flatpak` is how you start.
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