Blueneonz
@Blueneonz@reddthat.com
- Comment on Nitter Shutting Down 9 months ago:
That’s a shame. I don’t actively use Twitter but watch a few artists on there that haven’t went full bluesky/mastodon/misskey yet. Nitter stopped the pain of login walls to read feeds after Musk’s takeover; like hell Im making a Twiiter account after all that has happened with security and all.
Luckily, I can see some Japanese stuff through twicomi and pixiv if the artist has them. As for everyone else, I’m just going to have to suck it up and leave them behind. If something happens to a creator I won’t ever know about it unless it’s huge enough to make the internet Frontpage. Then again, that’s not such a bad thing either.
- Comment on YouTube: 5 ads the norm now? 10 months ago:
Haven’t had more than 2 ads per ad break yet but have seen the frequency go up on some videos. Some videos have only a beginning ad while some have 2 or 3+ ad breaks. The extremely popular youtubers usually get the 3+ ads from my experience.
The ad duration also went up to 20-30 seconds with 10 seconds sprinkled in. It doesn’t matter if I back out of videos anymore, it seems that the beginning ads are fixed to whatever duration they are. All of this happened when they rolled out the buggy circle timer.
I have no doubt that this will get even worse next year. It’s just on the tv I use the youtube app, so if push comes to shove I will go back to fully using newpipe.