I hesitantly switched a while ago, have had 0 ragrets except that there are some games I can’t play like EA games. But is that really a bad thing though?

Agreed, it’s just hard to find a suitable replacement for many things like tvs, since there’s a lack of alternative apps for other platforms on things like roku or LG tvs

Pihole doesn’t block YouTube ads as it’s only a dns blocker, Google serves the ads from the same servers as the videos from what I understand. Adguard home works the same.

Invidious used to work, it’s a self hosted YouTube instance that blockw out ads and has things like sponsorblock. I have Playlet installed on my roku pointing at my instance but about a week or so ago it’s been giving only errors 😔.

If I were to bet, I’d say the campaign is ran by a company that rhymes with Smoogle

Pcs are clearly inferior, that’s like 32gb on a Mac. /s

Brother printers, I also had an older ricoh you could just buy toners and chips or even use a raspberry pi script to reset the chip page count

Well shit I signed up because it worked on plex…

They can order both on Amazon duh…

“yeah but that’s like having 32GB on a lame PC”

My best purchase in the last couple of years was a 4k Sceptre TV from Walmart. Super cheap, good enough video quality and is dumb, just turns on to 4hdmi ports. That way I can just plug in whatever I want, or get a $30 roku and replace it whenever they update it to the point where it lags on basic menu navigation like my previous tvs.

Fuck all that bloatware, ad infested crap.

Call me old fashioned but I miss the old days when shit like this would take decades to discover and even then it would be shrouded in doubt and mystery.

Kids today just hop on youtube and know all the secrets in a short 40 minute video full of ads sponsorships and fillers.

“FUCK!” - Intel execs

It’ll be available in bundles meaning they can get even more money for it, or boost sales on other crap games no one wanted.

Not really sure how polygon managed to spin this as a “good way”

Pop os is pretty awesome. Using it now and been gaming just fine. I shouldve made the switch years ago.

To answer the title question, yes, everyone is. Every other video on youtube is essentially a sponsored ad and not just the gaming ones.

You had me at the ability to block content creators. The fact that YouTube doesn’t have this is insane.

A lot of Amazon sellers are just drop shipping shit from aliexpress/temu they don’t even bother changing the pictures or descriptions.

Thank you I haven’t used twitch in a long time but last I remember it was serving 4-6 ads back to back. Shit was wild.

Not before they embed chat into it.