• decipher_jeanne@lemmy.blahaj.zone
    9·
    1 hour ago

    People. What. The. Fuck?

    Why does everyone freak out about the adds and not the level of brainrot this is. Like how do you actually function in your daily life if you can’t stop watching content for a 5min shower? I have ADHD but I feel like I am amateur attention span issues and this is competitive ranked grand master attention span issues

    Yes I am judging and maybe even shaming you.

    Okay not shaming you because doing so is negative and I genuinely hope you get better if you have attention span issue. Smooches on you

    • Cleisthenian@lemmy.ml
      1·
      2 minutes ago

      Agreed. Also taking your phone to the toilet is gross and using it at the dinner table is kinda rude

  • krisevol@lemmus.orgEnglish
    31·
    1 hour ago

    YouTube premium is over is the best services for the price. I get no ads in my car, my phone, my pc, and i get to give 5 keys to my friend and family to use.

    Any streaming company that offers my an ad free plan that is reasonably priced I’ll support. I never want to go back to the days of cable where it was a paid service with ads. I’ll support the ones that give me the service i want. Ad free.

  • uuj8za@piefed.socialEnglish
    3·
    3 hours ago

    😭 <- me when someone uses ad-infested youtube.

    • Firefox + uBlock
    • Fennec + uBlock
    • Grayjay
    • Smart tube
    • ShinkanTrain@lemmy.mlEnglish
      10·
      6 hours ago

      Also, Newpipe for mobile and FreeTube for PC

      Edit: Someone in this thread mentioned Pipepipe, a fork of Newpipe with extra features. I had not heard of it, but it’s worth investigating

        • hopesfall@lemmy.world
          4·
          7 hours ago

          Really surprised that this is readily available on the app store, tried it out for a bit and it seems to be working. Didn’t sign in yet but it looks pretty safe.

          Thanks for the heads up.

          • vogi@piefed.socialEnglish
            4·
            6 hours ago

            Yeah, I was surprised as well. I believe most of these kind of apps get around it by advertising as a RSS Reader or generic Mediathek. But from the Screenshots its hard to mistake it for something other than a YT Client. Guess Apple does dont care about it as much as Google would.

            If it works maybe we should keep it on the down low. Also only heard of it by chance.

      • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
        3·
        8 hours ago

        You can use an android phone and block all the ads. This is what deterred me from iPhone last time. Greyjay, pipepipe, etc. No ads. Plus uBlock for Firefox. Among other huge advantages.

  • halloejsovs@lemmy.world
    591·
    11 hours ago

    What amateurs still watch YouTube with ads? Every platform has plenty of easy solutions to bypass it.

  • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
    25·
    10 hours ago

    I get listening to music in the shower, although I don’t. Watching videos while taking a shower? Maybe while taking a bath.

    But, really, you can’t step away from media for a few minutes a day for some peace and quiet?

    Suffering through being alone with your thoughts is the first step toward better mental health. Your issues don’t go away if you ignore them, they just get worse. You know this, so make an effort for yourself.

    • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zipEnglish
      51·
      8 hours ago

      I don’t want to be going through therapy while I’m lathering up my asshole. I wait for the weekend to do mushrooms about it

    • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
      630·
      11 hours ago

      It’s not OP’s fault English is a stupid language with words that sound identical but carry different meanings. I’m of the mindset that so long as it’s legible it is correct. look at Old English. It was much more phonetic than modern English is. Scribes wrote words as they sounded. Languages like English have so many dumb and unnecessary rules as well. Why the fuck do we need capitalization rules anyway? Latin doesn’t have it.

      • daddycool@lemmy.world
        23·
        11 hours ago

        Getting corrected is how you learn. I often spell words wrong, because English isn’t my first language, but I don’t mind being corrected.

        But when to use “your” and “you’re” is actually fairly easy to remember. “You’re” is short for “you are” and is used when YOU are doing something. “Your” is used when someone else is doing something.

        You’re sleeping vs. your cat is sleeping.

        • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          I don’t disagree but I think you’re missing my point. Minor variations of spelling shouldn’t matter, so long as it’s legible. If someone says dey instead of they, dat instead of that, wader instead of water, why should that be any less correct? I know it’s not exactly an apple to apples comparison but I believe language should be more flexible. So long as it’s understandable, why should it matter? Especially because English has and will continue to evolve in our lifetime. Why do people think in terms of absolutes?

      • M137@lemmy.today
        4·
        7 hours ago

        It’s really fucking not hard to learn the correct usage. You’re: you are, your: something belonging to or being part of you. You’re isn’t a word, it’s a contraction of two words. It’s so fucking simple to understand when to use any contraction or similar sounding word that there is never an excuse to get it wrong. It’s also mostly native English speakers who get it wrong and part of that is the American educational system being one kf the worst in the world.

        • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
          1·
          2 hours ago

          Shit like that used to bug me but eventually I realized it was a waste of time getting set off by incorrect word use or spelling. As long as the message isn’t ambiguous, who cares? And even when it’s on the border, it’s often clear enough from the context what they really mean (though can be fun to deliberately misinterpret it).

        • daggermoon@piefed.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 hours ago

          It could also be that language evolves with time. If more people use “your”, regardless of what the dictionary says than it’s correct. I believe there will come a day when you’re and your cease to be different.

      • Zarobi@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        6 hours ago

        Agreed. Back then, dictionaries were basically suggestions and fiction. People only really started caring about modern consistent spelling relatively recently (19th century), but it’s assumed that’s always been the case. People used to just make up words as it made sense, like colour. Someone just made up that word and now we all use it, but God forbid anyone get creative nowadays! There’s been dozens of both successful and failed “spelling reforms”. Some people just decided on this one spelling and we all now pretend it was gospel.

        Then the grammar Nazis come out of the woodwork, as if they cannot possibly understand anything you wrote, because of this one small error. It’s not helpful or interesting behaviour, it’s like pointing out a smudge on an artwork.

        Most other languages on Earth have an intuitive way of spelling and sounding out letters, with actual rules, to the point where you can understand how to say something just by reading it. English has no such feature, despite some efforts. Every word is it’s own unique creature with it’s own unique spelling and pronunciation and history.

        All the helpful features of English to help you know how to pronounce something have been stripped out to make it “simplified”. Ever wonder why they’re called “simplified English dictionaries”? Because there used to be other kinds of English and dictionaries. Because it spells it “naive” instead of “naïve”. The extra dot on the vowel used to mean that you say the vowels separately instead of smooshed together; na-i-ve.

        Fucking dogshit language. It’s my first language, but I found my second and third languages easier to learn and more logical and intuitive. Now that’s saying something.

        Also since you asked, capital letters were actually invented by the Romans, as a helpful optional feature to make things easier to read. They thought it looked cool to have Important Things be different.

      • TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 hours ago

        Capitalization between sentences is needed because the period is so small. Or, the period can be small because we use capitalization between sentences. If we changed the symbol for the end of a sentence we could stop capitalizing the first letter of a sentence.

        Maybe that will happen someday, but not soon.

        If the point of written language is for the writer to communicate effectively, it’s important to follow the current rules, as you have.