Cugel wrote:Cunobelin wrote:Internet is better and worse.
I use Ad Blockers because I do not want to pay for the adverts.
However more and more sites block you if you use one.
Fine, I can find another site easily enough that does also their use.
Equally YouTube is more and more adverts. One I watched last week - over half was adverts.
Ironically I tend to avid stuff that annoys me like this, so in my case it achieves the opposite of what is intended
Those websites that prevent access if you don't turn off the ad blocker are often wholly advertsing sites anyway. Take Bike Radar - nothing but product reviews really, including the "reviews". Even the how-to articles are full of the push to buy some more stuff. I just don't go to such websites. After all, what are we missing? Nothing of any consequence.
Cugel
I'd you want to get around the Youtube wheeze of ever increasing advert frequency, download Tubemate (unsurprisingly not available on the YouTube owned Play Store), and hey presto you can offline nearly every piece of content from YouTube, Dailymotion and hundreds of other streaming platforms, all for free.
Buy a big hard drive 2TB for 40 quid and you can build a library of your own playlist to watch whenever you want offline or in places with no connection. I've got just about every British comedy show back to The Goons. You can also download audio (mp3 also)
I'd do it soon though, because eventually they'll find a way to block ripping encoders like this and then upto have to put up with their silly adverts ad nauseam..
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