[Vox] Why every social media site is a dumpster fire
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZSRxfHMr5s
"Until these companies decide that there's something more important than getting people to watch ads"
Never happening
Their business model is going to become a thing of the past as more and more people install adblockers.
idk dude adblockers have been around for so long yet here we are
theres so many internet users on smart devices and people think adblockers are next to impossible on those.
This is the pot calling the kettle black with vox, the clickbait network of famous incompetence.
Here we are, the anti-social media group of intellectuals
I'm not sure how to get any adblocker to work with Chrome on Android.
Sure it works with Firefox, but that's also a painfully slow mobile browser.
It just gets more true with every story about social media getting exploited.. (Again 4:00):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKl6WjfDqYA
I ended up getting something that blocks ads on the system level, 'though that required a root.
But the upshot is that this also removes ads in apps.
To be honest, vox does a lot of decent sciencey-based stuff, it's just wrapped in that editing that's the visual equivalent of the NPR voice. When they do social/political based content, I take it with a grain of salt, sometimes they've got good stuff, sometimes it's garbage. They're not as bad as VICE though
That's because VICE is actually just a ponzy scheme whose ad sales don't actually reflect the volume of views they get.
Pi-hole®
I do have to ask though, you guys are getting mad because Vox made this but this is all information that we have in several discussions confirmed, agreed to and discussed with studies in paper at length.
Yes Vox gets a lot wrong but how is this video wrong?
The issue here is that while Vox may make claims in some of their videos, as others have pointed out in the same thread that generally they also do have a quality bar set. Metorkour's bar has been blatant misinformation and vitriol from the start.
I feel like Vox is being unfairly compared in this case, and I feel that's because the examples we could give for Vox don't exist on the other side of the spectrum.We could compare them to Fox News but Fox News has even bigger issues.
I fully expect a push for regulations against ad blockers from these companies in the next few years, if there already hasn't been one.
What?
I can't see any android download for that.
You wouldn't steal a car.
Ad-Block: it's a crime!
/s
So I don't like Vox much but I think they are on the money with the echo chamber effect of social media.
Im glad that through the last ten years of the internet changing so much Facepunch is more or less the same.
If the democrats regain control of the government, that shit ain't happening.
I like Carlos Maza's videos generally even if Vox itself isn't great.
So the short answer is just that it's not really doable for any average person then?
And it won't work on mobile networks? Or routers you can't control the settings of?
Welp.
First count: correct - for sure, it is a journey.
Other two: it does work on mobile networks "if you configure OpenVPN on the same Pi you can connect remotely"
Most of them will probably just dedicate more and more resources to an anti-adblocker arms race. That way everyone gets affected immediately, and they have full control over what happens to
adblocker users (at least the ones that don't know any workarounds, AKA most of them).
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