“Sorry your gran’s dead, but you can get YouTube Premium for £12.99 a month for an ad-free experience.”
Watching ads while grandma is choking on a fish bone
Submitted 1 year ago by genfood@feddit.de to mildlyinfuriating@lemmy.world
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Jackthelad@lemmy.world 1 year ago
mp3@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Cyberpunk isn’t too far off…
Hyperreality@kbin.social 1 year ago
Of course not. Cyberpunk and tech noir usually isn't just about the future, it's arguably about now. More generally, science fiction is often used as a 'safe' way to criticise existing society or say what can't otherwise be said.
Prime example: Tarkovski's science fiction films (Stalker, Solaris, ...), which smuggled very religious themes past the soviet censor, because 'it's only science fiction'.
Make a movie glorifying terrorism? Likely jail sentence and on a list. Make a movie glorifying a terrorist that blows up parliament in a dystopian future? Cult classic.
Make a tv episode where one of the main cast has a sexual relationship with a trans character, who is later forced to undergo gender reaffirming therapy in 1992? Impossible. Make it about Riker having a relationship with an alien who's not androgynous because her race finds gender weird? Prime time tv.
Make a tv programme about the guilt of a Nazi who worked in a camp while the Jews were being exterminated? No way that's happening. Make a tv programme about the guilt of a space alien who worked in a camp while other space aliens were being exterminated? That particular Star Trek episode was broadcast in prime time, to wide acclaim.
For this reason, and on a related note, anyone who complains about a science fiction show or movie being 'too political' is more often than not a moron and/or someone who's never watched or read scifi content but is pretending to be a fan.
Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I remember when cyberpunk’s vision of the future was grounded in ridiculous cynicism instead of a charitable assessment of reality.
Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Your grandmother is choking. YouTube believes in preventing elder abuse. You are an unfit guardian. Your grandmother will be put in the custody of YouTube. YouTube: “Fuck you, I’m streaming.”
Whitebrow@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I hate that I read it in the exact voice from the movie. Thanks
Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Lol I can’t tell if that was a real reply. I assume it’s a satire account?
Drinvictus@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
YouTube is not Wikipedia or fucking EMS
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
As true as that is, in an emergency people don’t always have time to seek out professional help, and it ain’t like calling 911 will magically make an ambulance appear in 30 seconds.
Also, the Institute Of Human Anatomy actually has a YouTube channel…
geekworking@lemmy.world 1 year ago
911 dispatchers are trained and certified to provide concise and accurate medically reviewed instructions over the phone so that you are not just standing there waiting for the ambulance.
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
I think they mean that EMS will guide you through it over the phone.
weedazz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
You know what would magically appear in 30 seconds tho? A Google images search. Not sure why people need a video when Heimlich posters have been doing the job for decades and are easily found online
SageMarble@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Don’t ads only show on monetized video?
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“hold up a minute, I need to support Wikipedia with my yearly $3 donation. it just popped up and I will forget.”
dies
(though you should help keep the lights on at wp so I guess gran had a good run)
Aatube@kbin.social 1 year ago
If you can't scroll past the ad I doubt you'd be able to scroll to the section with instructions
I think the correct answer might actually be Wikihow
SomeBloke@lemm.ee 1 year ago
The real Mildly Infuriating is that someone directly copied one of Stephen Merchant’s tweets word for word.
possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 year ago
Third party websites fix that problem. Also why are you looking up videos. Call emergency services.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 year ago
Then Gran will die anyway as soon as she sees the bill
TheFrirish@jlai.lu 1 year ago
should have been an ad blocker it’s 2023.
marx2k@lemmy.world 1 year ago
YouTube just started noticing my ad blocker and throwing pop-ups before video telling me to cut it out
PM_ME_VINTAGE_30S@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Time to use Invidious. inv.tux.pizza works for me.
wanderingmagus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ublock Origin?
pineapplelover@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Well I’m sure everybody here on Lemmy already uses ublock. The rest of society doesn’t really know all these methods
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Adblocking on mobile is much harder than adblocking on desktop, and if you’re in an emergency situation like the one described, you’re more likely on your phone.
Personally I use ReVanced, which incorporates adblocking as well as giving you Premium features like background playing & PIP (while also keeping the benefits of being signed in to YT, like using your playlists, comments, etc.). But if I were an iPhone user I don’t know how I would watch YouTube.
TheFrirish@jlai.lu 1 year ago
agreed but it’s still shocking to me how people put up with so many ads it’s absolutely indegestable.
RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How does one become an ad blocker?
TheFrirish@jlai.lu 1 year ago
you only blink when there are ads
1984@lemmy.today 1 year ago
Haha TeamYouTube response is classical idiocracy… “Just pay us more and we may be better” :)
jarfil@lemmy.world 1 year ago
“Pay us, or your grandma can choke to death. Your choice!”
…pf.
DudeDudenson@lemmings.world 1 year ago
This repost needs more jpeg
fury@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I just want a picture of a goddang hotdog
derf82@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Maybe learn basic first aid before someone is dying.
over_clox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Even if someone already knows how to do the Heimlich Maneuver, is that really going to be effective when someone is choking on a fish bone that’s almost certainly sharp and stuck in there?
geekworking@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A fine fish bone is also not big enough to block the airway by itself. Heimlich can clear enough of whatever is stuck with the bone to at least partially open the airway.
derf82@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Then call emergency services, don’t go to youtube.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 year ago
Even if someone already knows how to do the Heimlich Maneuver
FWIW, abdominal thrusts are not recommended for choking due to considerable evidence that it can cause harm. “Abdominal thrusts” is the more formal term for what’s sometimes called the Heimlich Manoeuvre. Use chest thrusts instead.
m3t00@lemmy.world 1 year ago
tldr; typical false Tw strawman. gma died because you thought you could learn cpr as a youtube download in 10 seconds. try again
q47tx@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Ah give Granny a tracheotomy, clever.
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m more of a uBO and NewPipe user, myself. Piped is a front-end site yeah?
JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
How’s piped compare to revanced?
dan@upvote.au 1 year ago
Piped is a totally separate website mostly designed to avoid YouTube tracking you.
Revanced is a modified version of the YouTube app that makes some changes but otherwise keeps most of Google’s code intact.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 year ago
ReVanced lets you sign in so you can do things like thumbs up/down videos (it also comes with “Return YouTube Dislike” so you can see downvote ratios), interact with your playlists like Watch Later, and comment. Piped, to my knowledge, does not.
I’m not sure where Piped stands on PIP and background playback. ReVanced gives you both of them, but if I had to guess I’d say it’s likely that Piped will support PIP but not background playback, since it seems like PIP is something Android lets you have nearly for free (in terms of developer effort) but background playback seems to need more work to support.
Furedadmins@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A fish bone would most likely not obstuct grandma’s breathing anyway, heimlich wouldn’t help.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 1 year ago
I might just be old fashioned enough to think that YouTube probably shouldn’t be your first stop in an emergency.
harmonea@kbin.social 1 year ago
The best time to learn emergency lifesaving procedures is before you need them, but the second best time is when you need them. Being old fashioned about this could cost a life.
If you have a quicker reference people should bookmark for such cases, the kind thing would be to share it rather than judge. Else, panicking people will inevitably go where they know they can usually get fast instruction about any other topic.
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It would be pretty challenging to implement a feature that removed ads only before first aid videos.
davidgro@lemmy.world 1 year ago
They could just do it manually from top results for relevant searches. Not fair (wouldn’t get most of them) but better than the current status
Aatube@kbin.social 1 year ago
They could just de-monetize medical channels
LesserAbe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How do you know what is a medical channel programmatically?
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
They could easily just postpone ads for all videos. Most instances could save some vital/fascinating information until after the ad, but the CPR basics could be summarized quickly before the ad. By then your hands are fully engaged so you have to let the ad play, and afterwards you can learn about the depressing statistics of anyone surviving, much less recovering fully.
adam@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year ago
Perhaps they could just add a toggle for the uploader that made sure no ads play in front of the video
DrVortex@lemmy.one 1 year ago
Hey Moron, maybe stop using YouTube as an emergency instruction service…
Anti_Weeb_Penguin@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
Let me guess, American?
Quik@infosec.pub 1 year ago
This is a rare example of a situation in which an ad blocker would maybe have saved a life…
formergijoe@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Like even if there were no ads you’d learn how to help in a timely manner.
“What’s up guys! It’s me, your boy, MikeyMedic here with another video of a standard first aid technique, the Abdominal Thrusts!! Now the Abdominal Thrust is a standard first aid trick that is used to help someone when they’re choking 5 minutes on things you can choke on Speaking of food to choke on, our sponsor this week is FoodBox! 3 minutes of FoodBox ad Abdominal Thrusts used to be called the Heimlich Maneuver! Henry Heimlich was… 5 minute history on the Heimlich Maneuver and now I’m going to perform an abdominal thrust on my friend, Someguy420! Check out his videos on another 2 minutes for a partner plug and then 1 minute on how to perform abdominal thrusts And that’s how you perform an abdominal thrust! Be sure to check out my other videos. 3 minutes on other video content, liking and subscribing and hitting that bell.”
RealFknNito@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I would like to shill Sponsorblock, an extension where users can select sections of a video, mark them as “introduction” “non-music” or “sponsor” and it automatically skip those video sections if you want. It has made using Youtube so so so much smoother.
Scubus@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I would’ve read your comment l, but I’m using sponsorblock and it automatically blocked your comment.
CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
I actually cannot stand watching YouTube without sponsorblock now…
favrion@lemmy.world 1 year ago
No, how about you let creators make the little money that they can. Oh wait, you support piracy, that’s right.
elxeno@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It’s not called Heimlich anymore? I guess i have to watch some MikeyMedic videos…
chiliedogg@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Heimlich started trying to discredit back blows without any evidence and was being kinda a dick about it, so the Red Cross renamed the “Heimlich Maneuver” to “Abdominal Thrusts.”
ASeriesOfPoorChoices@lemmy.world 1 year ago
…well, damn.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdominal_thrusts
sanguinepar@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If I remember correctly from my first aid training, the Heimlich family themselves asked for it not to be called that, possibly to avoid being implicated in instances of it going wrong! Or possibly my first aid instructor was full of shit… :-)
Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
Literally what youtube has become.
Friends, if you haven’t already done so: Adblocker + Sponsorblock = sanity.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 year ago
Don’t forget the 5 minute request before you’ve even seen the start of what you’re interested in that you like, subscribe, and request notifications
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 year ago
I would have switched off and gone to find another video at this point.
Abdominal thrusts are not recommended for choking due to considerable evidence that it can cause harm.
Mo5560@feddit.de 1 year ago
What do you propose? As far as I know (the consensus changes alle the time but) they are recommended if you have no other options.
marx2k@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Damn, it’s like i just finished watching pretty much any YouTube video.
AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I appreciate the content creators who at least mark the sponsorship segment on the timeline so I know where to skip to.