(Don’t forget to use ublock origin / FOSS frontends like Invidious or NewPipe!)
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I hacked my switch a few years ago because I couldn’t play a specific game that is only available in Japan.
Didn’t know what I was doing and my switch got permabanned. All my paid games was no longer accessible. My prepaid online subscription wasn’t able to be used and couldn’t be refunded. I couldn’t pay more money to Nintendo anymore for future games.
So the only thing I could do is to continue to pirate.
This opened up the world of modding games that didn’t exist in the regular Nintendo experience. Homemade mods that adds new and fun characters in super smash bros? Change our Mario in Odyssey to Wario? Change the dynamics on Mario Maker? Sure why not!
The remedy for piracy should never be punitive on the consumer, or it does exactly what happened to you. Even more ironic your story is probably encouraging others to pirate rather than have a discouraging effect on the market by ‘making an example of you’.
Great job as usual, Nintendo management 🎉
I cannot fathom how people can live without ublock origin. The internet is just genuinely unusable without it
They not know. One comment on here say how set up pihole was chore for partner, but accept. Then move to new location, pihole not set up, partner extremely annoyed how unusable web without pihole.
They could go the DNS route and not have to worry about that once all the devices are set up
Of course I would!
That ad campaign had such boomer energy. Even 20 years ago when they were running it the consensus was everyone would download a car.
https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:476016
I know you want to.
It really makes you wonder what the fuck was going through everyone’s head in the chain of command that got that ad approved?
Can you guys tell me some good pirate sites so I can avoid? I just want to be careful.
https://rentry.co/megathread Have fun
I moved from sites to Usenet and I’ve never been happier. Using the *arr stack (sonarr/radar/prowlarr), it’s all background operations.
Debatably slightly worse ads on some piracy sites. The last time I visited a specific piracy site using ungoogled chromium on my laptop, the website had a full page invisible ad that couldn’t be closed and would lead to a scammy porn site that probably tried to give me some sort of virus. Couldn’t tell you what was on there because I wasn’t about to let it load.
my dad is old and turning senile and youtubes ad algorithm must have caught on to that.
literally every 3rd swipe in their shorts is a scam ad blaring sirens warning about either viruses or about missikg storage space and that you need to install some “tool” to fix it.
its honestly pissing me off that Google does not get fined into oblivion for not doing their due diligence when it comes to vetting advertisers.
Google Ads allows ad-buyers to pay a little more to target the demographics their ads get shown to, the more granular the more expensive.
So these scammy fake virus bastards just pay to be advertised to ‘over 60s’, ‘ads trigger for keyword: antivirus / virus’ and geographical target to countries with a wealthy boomer class like USA, UK, Australia, etc… Then wait for the clicks on their scam to come flowing in.
Adblocker?
Nothing online has ads unless you have no idea what you’re doung
It’s because ads don’t work on people anymore. You need hundreds to thousands of views on an ad to get a handful of click-throughs. Companies don’t know what to do anymore because advertising is really the only concept that makes sense to them.
Also ads are a form of soft power. Companies spend millions/billions of dollars on YouTube/twitch etc. to threaten creators with “demonetization” if they step too far out of line when they criticize the wrong people.
What are you talking about? Ads work just as well as they ever had, maybe even better.
Just because instead of taking the form of a pre-roll they usually take the form of one of the influencers you have a parasocial relationship with showing you something they"love" or “use everyday” doesn’t mean they don’t work.
That also includes “sponsored content” that comprises half of most media outlet output as well as “exclusive access” which influencers get so long as they don’t bad mouth the product.
Also includes LLM generated content responding on social media to make sure a product or brand at least gets mentioned in any thread that might seem appropriate.
Ads are more pervasive than ever and work just as well, perhaps better.
Sorry I should have clarified that the type of ads this meme is talking about (i.e banner ads and spot ads) don’t work, and yet we have more than ever before. We know this because it’s demonstrable that you need more capital than ever and more ad time than ever to see equivalent returns.
If a company really wants to sell their product they do tie-in deals with personalities or commission news stories to be laundered for them.
The only way to make ads 100% stop working is to block them entirely.
I was looking at a new webpage yesterday on someone else’s PC with some niche information I needed, and they had those top of the page banner ads that load a little later and bump the rest of the page down so you accidentally click them. Only, this page and four of them layered and timed to do that four times, perfectly sequenced so every time I started rereading the info it would happen again.
This experience would radicalize anyone, I think.
There is only 1 ad on YouTube that made me regret using uBlock Origin.
Grayjay rule :)
