We watched Belfast last night on Netflix Great movie, very well done.
Recent movies you saw - recommend or no
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Same filmaker..mcycle/surf New Zealand...and intriguing opening... 
oh to be young and athletic.....sigh.
Mind you kayaks and trials bikes helped in the 70s
That was good and I remember that pass....we turned back and I'm glad we did as the conditions/forecast was horrendous; Nice revisit.
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Mind you kayaks and trials bikes helped in the 70s
That was good and I remember that pass....we turned back and I'm glad we did as the conditions/forecast was horrendous; Nice revisit.
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He means, Youtube is at war with adblockers. I guess he doesn't realize that these extensions are not made by Google.
Chrome and Brave used to block ads on Youtube without the use of third party ad blockers. Shields were built in and blocked Youtube ads. Shield up was default.
That is no longer the case.
If you put the shield up the Youtube channel is disfunctional...
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That is no longer the case.
If you put the shield up the Youtube channel is disfunctional...
YouTube's Adblock Debacle: An In-Depth Look at Anti-Consumer Policies and User Backlash
YouTube, the world's largest video-sharing platform, has recently found itself in the midst of a controversy surrounding its Adblock policies. Users are expressing growing frustration and dissatisfaction as YouTube continues to implement measures that seem to infringe upon the rights of its user bas
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Lady Ballers - the most hilarious movie I've seen in a while.
Google owns YouTube AND Chrome. Chrome can't deny Adblock extensions in the Play Store as long as they stay within the ToS, hence the current whack-a-mole game its having with them.
Or, you could just use Firefox (yes it's a resource hog, but better as of late).
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Chrome and Brave used to block ads on Youtube without the use of third party ad blockers. Shields were built in and blocked Youtube ads. Shield up was default.
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That is no longer the case.
YouTube's Adblock Debacle: An In-Depth Look at Anti-Consumer Policies and User Backlash
YouTube, the world's largest video-sharing platform, has recently found itself in the midst of a controversy surrounding its Adblock policies. Users are expressing growing frustration and dissatisfaction as YouTube continues to implement measures that seem to infringe upon the rights of its user bas
Couldn't make it more than 1/4 way through that article until I started reading the same argument over and over. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me, though, that we should demand free content with absolutely no ads and then complain that they're infringing upon the consumer's rights. We're not being forced to consume the ads, we're choosing to consume the content, of which the ads are included in order to finance the channel/platform. We are free to choose not to use Youtube at all. Now if they were talking about Netflix, that's a different situation and I'm all in because I'm paying a subscription which I feel should be generating the revenue they need to provide their content without ads. They've proven it by growing their business over the years, so now it seems like just a cash grab.
Google is making BILLIONS selling their user's information. The LEAST they can do is give everyone a complimentary reach around (have one of their subsidiaries like YouTube let you watch videos without forcing ads on you) instead of nickel and dimeing them.
Relax
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I don't think they get anything from you if you have your browser set up properly for privacy.
Watched this old moto flick from the 70's - I remember watching it when I was in highschool. It's not great but Motorcycles....
In the novel "Lucifer's Hammer" there's a scene in which hundreds of surfers line up to try and surf a tsunami, caused by a meteor impact. Only one makes it onto the wave and he ends up smacking into the side of an apartment tower.
I remember that was a great book, can’t remember what it was about but I couldn’t put it down. Getting old means you can read the same books again
Beginning of the book is much like the movie "Deep Impact." Comet discovered, hits Earth, massive loss of life and societal collapse. The difference is that in the story a California politician, who owns a ranch in the high country, starts preparing in survivalist style and collects the kind of people he needs. The rest of the book is about surviving afterwards. Really made me want to go out and buy the books "The Way Things Work."I remember that was a great book, can’t remember what it was about but I couldn’t put it down. Getting old means you can read the same books again
I really wish that this book, along with "Footfall" and "Oath of Fealty" could be made into streaming series. There's more than enough in each of them to carry a series, for at least a couple of seasons.
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