That’s not at all obvious to me. I think recommendation algorithms are much more likely to provide you content you dont agree with than you’re to search for it yourself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My capacity to pay attention to things is limited so I prefer to not waste it on stuff that isn’t important or interesting. When an user demonstrates incapability for civil discussion I choose to dismiss them entirely. I’m perfectly aware that by doing so I’m also filtering out a ton of potentially valuable content but I simply don’t care because there’s an effectively infinite amount of it.

What’s your point? What else would blocking be for than to stop me from seeing messages from the people I’ve blocked?

The quote you linked is not from Jordan Peterson but a random twitter user called “TYL80737692”

If you want to know JP’s thought on incels you can look it up and hear it from the man himself rather than look for someone to intrepret it for you and add their own spin to it.

From the comments of the first video: “It’s ironic that mainstream media slandered Jordan Peterson as “King of the incels” when he routinely tells men that if women don’t find them attractive - it’s not the women’s fault - but men’s fault, and it’s each man’s responsibility to fix it.”

I worked with him on the same construction job for months. I never brought it up and he acted towards me like nothing ever happened. However it’s clear to me that he never changed and is still more or less the same person than he was back then. If anything I only feel sorry for him. It’s not his fault, he can’t help himself.

he encourages the idea that physical fun time is a human right

Care to elaborate on this? I’ve listened probably 20 hours of him talking but I don’t remember him saying anything like this. To me his core message seems to be that stop blaming the world for your issues and instead look in the mirror and sort your own life out first. He even became famous as the “clean your own room before you go out fixing the world” dude.

As much as I hate ads on podcasts that still wouldn’t be a good enough reason for me to switch apps unless the new one is atleast as good in other ways too as the one I’m using now.

The other guy is on my block list so it’s only you I’m hearing from. Ad hominem also isn’t changing anyone’s mind. Making this about me is just wasting both of our time.

Mostly young men. That’s his audience.

First you said that he became popular by “harming people” but the article you linked states; He became famous in 2016 after criticizing Canadian Bill C-16, claiming that the bill would enforce speech codes and harm free speech.

Then you implied he lost his license to practise clinical psychology which also has not happened (atleast yet)

Now you’re saying that posting controversial comments on social media is “harmful to the public”

“The complaints against him include making “misleading” statements about COVID-19; mocking a plus-size Sports Illustrated model; and calling a surgeon a “criminal” for removing the breasts of transgender actress Ellen Page.”

Source

So while I don’t disagree that saying stupid shit on social media can potentially be harmful to some individuals that is still not in any way unique behaviour to JP so considering the original argument I still disagree with the claim that the world would be a better place without him. He’s like Elon Musk; people don’t like him as a person so they’re actively looking for the most insignificant faults in his behaviour and then act like he’s some horrible human being. It’s recreational outrage pure and simple.

I don’t see it saying anywhere that he has lost his licence or harmed anyone. He doesn’t even do clinical work anymore.

A quick google didn’t provide me with any information on that but I’m sure you will.