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I could have sworn that I posted about this the other day, but it doesn't appear to be in my journal...odd.
Anyway, I wanted to recommend a guy on Youtube who has been producing interesting videos on events in Ukraine and Russia:
He's an Army vet (and big military history buff) who was stationed in Afghanistan around a decade ago and is proud to have brought all the soldiers he was eventually in charge of back home alive in spite of the violence going on at the time. He's been using his knowledge to explain and analyze troop movements, PG-rated combat videos, and other things related to the war over there. I'm not really into military stuff, but his work is surprisingly interesting, plus offers a lot more information than what appears in our regular news media.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 24 2022, @05:22PM (3 children)
He sounds genuine, doesn't seem to be full of himself. I watched most of a random video from his list. Was there anything in particular that you wanted us to see, or you just wanted to introduce him? I'll give him a "thumbs up", but I don't see anything especially intriguing yet.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 24 2022, @07:34PM
I've seen some of the dudes videos, not one of my go-too sources. In the spirit of introduction, I prefer the analysis from task and purpose, good times bad times and Vlad Vexler.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=TnwPk7Tjrg8 [youtube.com]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kYT-3hOYDBQ [youtube.com]
https://youtube.com/watch?v=HravTYSIVu4 [youtube.com]
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @02:05AM
When I want to vet vets, I always go to Runaway, because he was an actual supply clerk, in an actual navy, for some country, and he is full of himself and has opinions on everything.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @07:55PM
You really should try listening to yourself sometime, what a pointless comment to make unless you are a Russian shill angry at people reporting reality. Or you're just a fan of the Russian agent Tucker Carlson and hilariously think you're a patriot B^]
(Score: 5, Funny) by janrinok on Saturday September 24 2022, @07:06PM (17 children)
For me the video is almost unwatchable - I am getting adverts displayed about every 50-55 seconds.
"Ain't nobody got time for dat!"
Thanks for trying.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by drussell on Saturday September 24 2022, @07:16PM (10 children)
How anyone could possibly watch anything on youtube without an ad-blocker enabled is beyond me!
(Actually, how anyone could possibly surf any of the interwebz at all without an ad-blocker engaged is beyond me!) Youtube even keeps popping up "free trials" of a youtube "premium" (formerly "red?") paid-package for a "no-ads experience", but since I'll never see any ads to begin with, it's obviously always a firm "no sale!" for me...
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Saturday September 24 2022, @07:30PM
This ^ exactly. I see an occasional advert, more often I see blank boxes where an advert was intended to be. If/when I start seeing more ads, I'll peruse my blocking mechanisms, and swap things around until I don't see them anymore. The advertisers make it easy, because they only use a couple hundred servers for most ads. Just block those most used servers, and the job is more than half done. I don't want to invoke He-who-shall-not-be-named, but adding a list like this to your HOSTS list solves much of the problem: https://github.com/anudeepND/blacklist [github.com] Alternatively, you can use the list on your router to block those sites for the entire office/household, depending on your router.
Abortion is the number one killed of children in the United States.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday September 25 2022, @05:13AM (2 children)
I have an add blocker. I do not see any ads except those embedded in the video. I will try a different add-on.
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday September 27 2022, @01:25PM (1 child)
I use uBlock Origin and get no youtube advertisements. I still get the sponsor spots that the host has included in their video, but those are easy enough to skip. Still, sometimes I just watch their sponsor spot, if I've not actually seen it. In the event that it's a recurring sponsor with the same exact promotion, I'll skip it.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Freeman on Tuesday September 27 2022, @01:31PM
That said, I watch very little YouTube. I watch some hardware pron, though. Linus TechTips youtube channel is fun and they do some dumb stuff. Like use liquid nitrogen to cool a CPU and other dumb stuff. But mostly, they keep up with the latest tech and it's interesting enough. I've watched some Gamers Nexus, but I can't stand the guy's voice. Maybe just me, but he's just not good to listen to.
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday September 25 2022, @05:18AM (5 children)
Well, installing a different adblocker means that my private tabs are no longer private. But a thumbs up for wireshark! I suppose you can't win them all.....
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @06:20AM (4 children)
You could try siloing your activities into separate web browsers, installing whatever addons you feel comfortable with in a browser dedicated to video playback, for example.
(Score: 2) by janrinok on Sunday September 25 2022, @08:20AM (3 children)
I have pinned the problem down a little. In Ubuntu, Firefox is now loaded as a snap package and not as a normal deb package - in fact there is no longer a deb package offered anymore. Uninstalling snapd, and any programs that I have loaded using snap, and then installing standard downloaded versions (Firefox, Pycharm-Community, etc) seems to have resolved some of the problems. It appears that you can't have the benefits of add-ons and private browsing at the same time if you use the snap installed version of Firefox, but everything is OK with the standard download version. I'm not sure how many people are aware of just how much data is being sent somewhere if you install certain add-ons.
For some reason my previous ad-blocker stopped all the usual ads but not those inside youtube videos. I have changed both Firefox and my ad-blocker and it seems to be working fine for the moment.
Thanks to all those who provided advice, both on here and via email.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @12:51PM
Snap - a solution in search of a problem.
(Score: 2) by RS3 on Sunday September 25 2022, @06:10PM
Watching on Vivaldi on Windows 7 (cough cough spit, it works) using Vivaldi, which has pretty good built-in anti-tracking and ad blocking. No ads show at all. Additionally using Privacy Badger, uBlock Origin, ClearURLs, Leakuidator+, and UltraBlock. They're all turned on at the moment, but often they're all turned off, and so far, no YouTube ads show at all.
I do worry about what any of the plugins might be sending back. Haven't employed WireShark or smsniff yet, but maybe I will. Trouble is, everything is encrypted now, and IP addresses have no DNS entry, so I have to check NetCraft or some such to find out who owns the IP address. Vivaldi, being a chrome derivative, communicates with many google-owned IP addresses anyway. All very tedious. I do very little online, so there's not much for anyone to find anyway.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @12:42PM
I seem to have pretty good results with eMatrix on Palemoon on linux.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 24 2022, @07:22PM (3 children)
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/09/19/1833241 [soylentnews.org]
Nobody with a pulse gets ads on YouTube.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 24 2022, @07:40PM (1 child)
Manifest V3 removes webrequest from Chromes extension API, proxy's and web front ends are the way to go...
https://invidious.io/ [invidious.io]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 28 2022, @08:49AM
Actually, it doesn't remove it completely, as most people think. Despite claiming that the reason for removing the permission was to protect people's privacy and all that crap, they left in the ability to use webRequest to read all requests made. You can't change them anymore, but reading is the real issue if you are actually concerned about privacy, slurping up passwords, etc.
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday September 27 2022, @07:54PM
My confidence in janrinok's tech acumen has fallen even further. Can't he tell that this is an aristarchus avidya?
(Score: 3, Touché) by NotSanguine on Sunday September 25 2022, @05:50AM
Try using yt-dlp [github.com] and/or yt-dlg [github.com] and watch them without ads.
I do that with stuff I want to watch uninterrupted, like this [youtube.com].
No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday September 26 2022, @06:46AM
On a computer (no version for mobiles), try "Enhancer for youtube" as a browser extension.
(Score: 2) by fliptop on Saturday September 24 2022, @08:48PM
Appreciate the referral. He seems quite knowledgeable.
To be oneself, and unafraid whether right or wrong, is more admirable than the easy cowardice of surrender to conformity
(Score: 1, Troll) by Gaaark on Sunday September 25 2022, @06:34PM (2 children)
My journal on my new PC is also missing from the front page (but still can be seen in my journal page).
They came for aristarchus and i turned away... then they came for ME!!! ;)
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @09:30PM
Or did you dream it? There is a minimum karma that you must have for a journal entry to show up on the front page, but I can't imagine that Gaaaaaaark does not have it. Maybe it is like what happened to Athanasius, nefarious admins seeking to protect covert fascism, a sort of "Operation Paperclip", but this time for dummies, and based on the kid's game, "Operation". Careful with those tweezers, kids!
I can find your journal. More interesting than a Fusty! More objectivity than Runaway! Many times the tech information that khallow! Well done, sir!
(Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25 2022, @11:23PM
It's old journal, dummy.