• bitjunkie@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    …to the surprise of absolutely no one who’s been paying attention. They got rid of the coalmine canary clause like a fucking decade ago.

    • ayyy@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      13 days ago

      What the heck does complying with wiretap orders have to do with removing YouTube videos about adblockers?

  • simonced@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    13 days ago

    It has been reuploaded already with a nice “re-upload” added in the thumbnail.

    • Jediwan@lemy.lolEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Thanks for sharing? Why is every Lemmy single comment section filled with unrelated iamverysmart comments.

    • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      13 days ago

      I’ll be that guy. I don’t understand why LTT gets so much crap from people constantly, they seem to have a very toxic community even without the scandals. But in regards to the more recent scandal, I really think a lot of those things are fixable and I’ll be watching to see if they fix them.

      As far as the sexual harassment stuff goes I can see that as a legitimate reason to stop watching. At the same time though, how should we feel with such limited and one sided information? And especially how should I feel if the problems aren’t inherent to the company and if they don’t reoccur?

      Maybe someone can help clear this up for me because I’m not that informed and I’m still giving them a chance but maybe I shouldn’t be.

      • BluesF@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        13 days ago

        Check the other comment thread from the parent, there’s a discussion which goes into it.

      • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 days ago

        I don’t understand why LTT gets so much crap from people

        Because their clowns. Literally. Their content is pure tech entertainment with constant immature humour and little substance. The way they present themselves is like a group of teenagers messing around.

        Then there’s their “expertise”. They don’t know tech beyond a Windows “power user”.

        But in regards to the more recent scandal, I really think a lot of those things are fixable and I’ll be watching to see if they fix them.

        Linus showed his true colours during the Billet Labs incident. He doubled down hard, and I’m convinced that even today Linus feels like he did nothing wrong. They have zero reputation to salvage, IMO.

        • CleoTheWizard@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          11 days ago

          Yeah this is what I mean. I don’t get why people who don’t like their content bother hating them. You don’t like that they mostly exist for entertainment, cool, why bother caring? If you want deep tech dives or something else, there’s plenty of content out there. You’re upset they aren’t more knowledgeable as if everyone making tech content needs to know everything.

          And yeah I did feel like they messed up with the Billet incident and it was one of the more important things they needed to address properly. They made a mistake and I do think that Linus handled it poorly to say the least. They deserved that part of the scandal. All I’ll say is I’m willing to wait and see if they improve or if they make similar mistakes. If that’s a big deal to you, I get that, but that’s not where a majority of the hate is coming from either. It’s coming from what I said before about tech people wanting different content

          • CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            11 days ago

            I don’t get why people who don’t like their content bother hating them.

            Because for good or bad, they have a significant influence in the tech world. And since they are more bad, people don’t like them.

            Take the Linux challenge, for example. They massively misrepresented the usability of Linux for the average person and for gamers. They even concluded at the end of their challenge that Linux was unsuitable for most gamers. And the release and success of the Steam Deck shortly afterwards was quite delicious.

            Then there was the bit where Linus didn’t read the warning about the package manager removing the desktop environment and just hit yes, then complained that it wasn’t his fault and that the system was poorly designed.

            The guy literally has an issue with accountability.

            You’re upset they aren’t more knowledgeable as if everyone making tech content needs to know everything.

            A better statement is that I’m upset because they preach their deep and unchallengeable knowledge and act as a be-all end-all authority in tech.

            But really I’m not “upset” by them. I just really dislike them and think they’re insufferable.

            And I don’t watch LTT. And there are plenty of other, and objectively better, channels about tech. And I watch those better channels, including GamersNexus.

            All I’ll say is I’m willing to wait and see if they improve or if they make similar mistakes.

            Their entire channel is a giant mistake. All of their content is garbage by virtue of their proven flawed and subpar provides. A process they admitted was flawed, and from what I’ve seen is still flawed with the garbage corrections in the comments nonsense they promised to fix.

            They’re just going to go about business as usual and just be a little more careful with their public image. They don’t deserve the views they get.

  • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    13 days ago

    Ironically, watching this video on Osysee results in me consuming more ads that help LTT than usual, because I don’t have SponsorBlock set up for that.

    • x00za@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      13 days ago

      Why did you not set it up? I think they added it recently and when I found out I instantly enabled it. It also works for Invidious.

      • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        13 days ago

        Because I’ve literally never watched an Odysee video on Firefox on my phone before that, so I never felt the need.

    • 0xD@infosec.pubEnglish
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      13 days ago

      SponsorBlock does not change anything about the money they get from sponsorships. So no, that does not help them more than otherwise.

        • 0xD@infosec.pubEnglish
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          13 days ago

          They talked about it in the WAN show and they do not share that data as of a few months ago.

          • dwindling7373@feddit.itEnglish
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            13 days ago

            They way I uderstand your comment, LTT is big enought so as to negotiate contracts with sponsor without being forced to share the metric related to the performance of the sponsored segment.

            I doubt that’s true for many creators.

      • kalleboo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        13 days ago

        YouTube creators can see the view rate for each section of the video, I’d be surprised if sponsors didn’t ask for that data (if just to know the viewer retention for sponsor segments at the beginning vs end of the video)

        • 0xD@infosec.pubEnglish
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          13 days ago

          They talked about it in the WAN show and they do not share that data as of a few months ago.

    • weeeeum@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      12 days ago

      Its against YouTube’s TOS to download content, and to block advertisements. Another lesser known, and less enforced part of the TOS also covers content instructing how to download content and block ads. I’m pretty sure that’s the reason YouTube took it down at least.

      On another note, huge props to Linus for teaching how to block ads on channel and company, with a hundred mouths to feed, majorly funded by advertisments. I know he caught a lot of shit before with gamer nexus, but they deserve props for this.