I prefer 1080p but if not available then 720p is perfectly fine as well. 4k is overkill and I don’t even have a monitor that could play it at native resolution. Where I do prefer “lower quality” though is framerate. I don’t like how 60fps looks so I force YouTube to play videos at 24fps.

The fact that you use their services despite claiming to oppose them probably tells more about how you really feel than your words do. You’re benefiting from their abusive business model the same whey they themselves are. Justifying the continued use of their services by not paying is just a cope to deal with the cognitive dissonance.

I’ll buy premium when they finally manage to either prevent adblocking entirely or make it sufficiently inconvenient. Stopping using YouTube is not an option for me and neither is watching ads. YouTube (along with porn) is the internet for me. If I’m not viewing either content, I’m probably not on my computer.

Hell, I don’t even blame them. I can’t morally justify blocking ads and viewing their content for free. I do it because it’s easy and I get away with it. I don’t believe in ads-based business model and that basically leaves subscribtion as the only viable alternative. Not paying and still using the service isn’t exactly practicing what I preach.

That’s what SponsorBlock already does. It however doesn’t detect the sponsor but instead it jumps over a part of the video marked with timestamp but with different people seeing different lenght ads, these timestamps no-longer match.

It’s attached by two “leashes” and if you yank it a bit the other rips off making it pretty much what you described but it’ll still tangle all over your face when you try to drink straight from the bottle and also now you have the sharp bit poking you every time you screw and unscrew the cap. This is not the only design we have. I just happen to shop at LIDL and their bottles are all like this. Some other designs are slightly better.

My pocket knife aswell. I used to recycle 100% of my plastic bottles before. Now I recycle 99.8% as there’s always this tiny piece that I cut off and throw in the trash. Same as that metal clip on lighters that’s supposed to stop children from being able to ignite them. It’s the first thing I rip off when I buy a new one.

The cap pokes my face if I try to drink from it without tearing it off. When I tear it off there’s then a sharp edge that pokes my hand every time I open or seal it.

I hate this so much. I swear I have never in my life returned a bottle without the cap. How would you even lose it in the first place? What psycho opens a bottle and discards the cap? Now my pocket knife usage has increased 300% as I’m cutting this sharp plastic thinghy away every time and I’m creating way more plastic waste than ever before. I agree with a lot what the EU does but this is idiotic.

Not using the default ones is a probable cause for why your browser gets flagged. Restore to default settings and make sure you don’t have other adblockers enabled (such as the one built into YouTube Enhancer add-on) If you still get the pop-up you can update the “quick fixes” list or wait an hour or so for the uBlock team to catch up with Google’s latest updates to the detection script.

I wasn’t on Facebook to begin with but I also had to create a personal profile in order to make a bussiness profile. Not a huge issue in my case as I never put anything up on the personal one.

My argument was that a classroom is not the place to make statements like this. I don’t think there should even be the flag of the country there - we have flagpoles for that purpose. Putting them in the classroom is unecessarily divisive/provocative in my view. I say this as a person belonging in the very minority this flag represents.

The argument that changed my mind is that having the flag there indicates to closeted students that said teacher is a safe person to come talk to if you’re dealing with difficulties in your life because of your sexuality. I think that was a good point that I hadn’t though of before so I changed my mind.

I changed my mind about rainbow flags in classrooms recently because the person arguing for them did not call me a nazi and instead made a good point.

If only that happening once was enough to learn from our mistakes.

If I like the song then I don’t care who the artist is but if I really don’t like the artist and feel so strongly about it that I want to make a statement then I simply don’t listen to them.

You’re the voice of reason here. Don’t let the mob bully you away from what you know to be true and moral. Sometimes the majority are all wrong.

I admire your naivety about the reasonability of an average Lemmy user.

Sounds like you two would get along just fine

Animal abuse is about politics aswell.

Here’s the entire history of earth compressed into 1 hour long video. For the vast majority of it absolutely nothing happens.

No I couldn’t sit for that long. My brain would melt into goo.

I blocked the piped bot. Don’t care about the rest.