• Quik@infosec.pubEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    This is a rare example of a situation in which an ad blocker would maybe have saved a life…

    • jet@hackertalks.comEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Depends if you believe in life by statistics…

      Just using the data from sponsor block, the community crowdsourced video embedded ad skipper…

      There are currently 13,033,165 users who have submitted 15,198,718 skip segments, which have saved a total of 2001 years and 38.56 days of people’s lives.

      2001 years / 75 years average per life equals 26 lives saved

      Sponsor block alone has saved 26 lives worth of time…

  • 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    I might just be old fashioned enough to think that YouTube probably shouldn’t be your first stop in an emergency.

  • 1984@lemmy.todayEnglish
    1·
    1 year ago

    Haha TeamYouTube response is classical idiocracy… “Just pay us more and we may be better” :)

    • /home/pineapplelover@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      1 year ago

      Well I’m sure everybody here on Lemmy already uses ublock. The rest of society doesn’t really know all these methods

      • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Adblocking on mobile is much harder than adblocking on desktop, and if you’re in an emergency situation like the one described, you’re more likely on your phone.

        Personally I use ReVanced, which incorporates adblocking as well as giving you Premium features like background playing & PIP (while also keeping the benefits of being signed in to YT, like using your playlists, comments, etc.). But if I were an iPhone user I don’t know how I would watch YouTube.