• DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.comBanned from community
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      7 months ago

      Especially if it’s a free to play game

      That just tells me “you will definitely spend money to get what you’re looking for in this game”

      No fucking thanks

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      7 months ago

      also also, firefox on android supports extensions. never go anywhere without ublock origin and sponsorblock.

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            Do you have microg integration set up? Usually the root cause of issues when something there is broken from my experience, assuming you have stable from the official revanced manager.

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          Newpipe > revanced IMO. Newpipe also supports a few other media streaming services outside of youtube, and when stuff breaks due to google interference they usually have a fix out within a few days.

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            The problem with NewPipe is that it breaks the YouTube experience. ReVanced lets you use your YouTube account to get all the normal YouTube functionality such as liking and commenting, viewing your subscriptions (including syncing if you make a change) and, most importantly, syncing playlists such as the Watch Later playlist.

            I’ve only had ReVanced break once since I started using it, way back when Vanced first died. So I don’t consider the “stuff breaks” element to be especially relevant.

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              Yeah that’s a fair point. I use newpipe specifically to get away from the youtube experience and keep only the videos. Newpipe does let you create local playlists and subscriptions that live only in the app, which I do utilize a bit.

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        If you’re on android I’d recommend viewing youtube videos through newpipe as it strips out everything except for the stream. Only downside is that it doesn’t have replacement functionality for sponsorblock.

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    I have a rule if they sponsor on multiple youtubers they are probably a scam and avoid. If i find the service interesting i search up alternatives that spend their money better

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      7 months ago

      yeah, the only good sponsorships are the sponsors of small niche channels, like a lens sponsorship on a photography channel.

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      I heard about it, downloaded it, tried it. Then i googled for other coupons and found a better one. Deleted Honey right away for being shit.

      Im surprised so many people would just trust the app immediately and not try to see if there were better coupons.

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      yeah, the best time to advertise at me about a thing is while I’m researching thing to buy.

      Advertising at me after I bought the thing is useless, I already bought it!

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        It does have a purpose. I found the name of it once, but it’s basically choice confirmation. When you buy something and then shortly after see lots of ads of other people who bought the same thing and are really happy with it/it appears popular, it confirms to you that you made the right choice and should make it again if given the chance. This kind of “confirmation after the fact” advertising is especially used in larger purchases like a car. It reinforces the choice you made in your mind so you feel more satisfied with the brand itself.

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    Huh, this company is spending a lot of money on marketing. Guess I’ll buy from a company doing less marketing so I’ll get it cheaper.

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      Or that is so good, they don’t need anything more than word of mouth. And I mean real word of mouth, not the fake influencer shilling that relies on parasocial relationships “word of mouth”

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        I exclusively buy from brands that are engrained in folk lore. Unless it’s literally the stuff of legends, you won’t see a penny from me

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        Express is, okay for what it is.

        Nord though is hiding behind the word “Nord”. It’s not even a Nordic company. It’s based in British virgin islands just like Surfshark

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    This is partly why I don’t trust Ground News. They’re putting way too much money into advertising for me to believe they’re genuinely interested in providing an unbiased factual categorization of news sources.

    I also simply don’t believe it’s possible to be unbiased, so anyone claiming to be is immediately suspect to me.

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      They also reinforce seeing liberal and conservative as opposites. The only good service they have is showing who sponsors which sources. However, the whole “blindspot” system seems designed as a both-sidesism

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        Exactly! It’s really disheartening to me to see so many youtubers who are otherwise insightful be so uncritically supportive of Ground News because they “like what they’re trying to do.”

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      7 months ago

      Is it perfect? no but it is the best way to be able to read the news from multiple POVs. They also include every single news outlet I’ve ever heard of and then some

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        I get that it offers a bunch of features that you can’t get anywhere else, but I just can’t shake the uneasy feeling that it’s all a trojan horse for something more sinister. I’m just waiting for the other shoe to drop and see it suddenly explode in controversy after someone exposes something not quite kosher going on under the surface.

        It’s just too good to be true.

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    To this day, I will never ever ever touch any Mazda products. All thanks to their dumb fucking zoom zoom advertising campaign about 20 years ago that involved their adverts playing twice during every ad break. Plus they were sponsoring shit, so it was everywhere. I feel like I still have PTSD from it. Fuck Mazda.

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      I can’t speak for modern Mazdas but I got a lowest trim manual, power nothing, in the mid naughties and it was still going strong 15 years later. So for all of their marketing annoyance it was absolutely a good product.

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        You got it when they were still creating rustbuckets then. The newer ones have much stronger bodywork and don’t oxidize within 3 minutes upon seeing salted roads. Can’t speak for the long term reliability though, don’t know anyone who’s owned one for too long (only friend who owned a newish Mazda traded it in for a Volvo V90 after a few years because space)

        I am tempted by new Mazdas because they now have some real nice engines available and they don’t do the whole “everything is touch” thing because apparently they actually care about safety… BUT… I’m salty that they don’t sell the CX90 here, only the CX80. I could really use the extra space nowadays.

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    Magic spoon got me. I was looking for a protein cereal so I was excited for a podcast I listen to advertise one. All the flavors are the same gross base that cut up your mouth with different artificial powders put on top. Of course I start seeing a bunch ads more after

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        Convenience, variety, and I specifically wanted cereal but it doesn’t fit a high protein diet. Also have you seen the cost of eggs?!

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    If you piss me off on a regular basis by interrupting what I’m doing with your spam, at least make it entertaining in some way.
    Don’t force some scripted talking points on every content creator, give them free reign to provide their opinion about your product.

    I would be 100x more interested in your product if I saw an objective review from somebody who I knew was being honest.

    But if they only pay people to say good things about their product, I see that as the company admitting that their product is shit, because they’re too scared to allow anyone to say it is.

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    This is the rule I live by when being forced fed ads. I will actively go out of my way to not use whatever product it is.

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    If they have the budget to mass advertise then that means they’re earning probably 100x that, most likely directly from users.

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      Or they’re burning through their VC funds because they’re out of ideas and have no customers.

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      I watched a review of raid shadow legends a while ago, and was unsurprising to see it was a very uninteresting game

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      The funniest thing was when Alec Steele (blacksmithing/metal working YouTuber) did a Raid ad. Him following their standard script was ridiculous

      His phone he played the game on had a cracked screen

      It really showed me not to believe any of his ads in particular

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      I have seen Proton as a sponsor once or twice and I don’t have any complains about the products they are selling.

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        The “privacy” service that gobbled on orange fascist knob from Switzerland? With their public accounts?

        Yeah. Nothing sketchy behind that choice.