That’s what a guest said when he saw me viewing a youtube vid on firefox with adblock, noscript, privacy badger and refcontrol plugins.
Just to humour him, I copied the link, opened chrome and clicked paste and go, now, you have to be aware that this was the first time I have ever gone on youtube with chrome.
“Fuck me” I said, “Now that is fucking broken… and fucking crap…” as the amazon pop up ad obscured the bottom quarter of the video frame we were trying to watch, and ads started auto playing in the top right corner of the browser window.
Barely had the words got out of my mouth when two interstitials pop up semi transparently over the rest of the video frame, and of course the excuse matey gives me is “all” I have to do is click the little X at the top right corner of these intrusive pieces of shit.
“I’ve got a better idea” I said, and closed chrome.
I literally had no idea how bad youtube had got, no wonder advertisers were running away in droves, and it has sweet fuck all to do with someone saying “fuck her in the pussy” somewhere in something they upload.
My own business I use a paid subscription to Vimeo, I create my own vids in H264 1080p and they get uploaded and played at 1080, no artifacts, no ads, no interstitials, nothing, you go on my “channel” and all you see is what I created and uploaded, and the only link anywhere to anything not created or uploaded by me is a small vimeo logo and link bar at the top of the screen, which is fair enough.
I literally have no idea at all why anyone would use youtube to upload to, except it’s fucking free.
But I can say pretty much the same thing about a lot of stuff people pay for… the old argument with the BBC TV here in the UK was you paid for it so you got no ads, ITV and then Channel 4 did not get revenue from the licence money, so they showed ads.
Now I see people *paying* for shit like netflix and BBC iplayer, and they are still treated like freeloaders who need to be marketed to in case their cock falls off.
All I can say is we appear to be moving into a time of insanity, which is a lot more dangerous than a time of oppression, because with oppression at least you know the bastards are out to get you, with insanity everyone around you is a fucking dangerous loon who can bring you down.
Google’s business model is insane, tesla’s business model is insane, apples business model is insane, amazon’s business model is insane, all the politicians from the local level on up are insane, all the policy makers, all the financiers, and all the fucking lawyers.
And of course all the fucking people.
My grandad lived through the thirties as an adult, one of the few things I can ever remeber him saying about it was it was a decade that got ever more manic and insane, and more and more crazy / taboo / risque things became if not commonplace, certainly easy to find and indulge in.
The once staid and respectable daily mail has full colour full feature pieces about dildos and vibrators next to stories of sexual deviancy and victimhood, asian sex gangs, 14 years olds dying of drug overdoses, thousands of under tens being reported for sexual crimes in school, babies of three and four being indulged in gender fluid fantasies, and all the rest of the fucking shit.
Increasing numbers of allegedly rational people are talking about shit like planet nbiru (sp?) is coming, or the latest wonder serum (probably just cat vomit and food colouring) or unearthed alien machinery.
The TV shows that people are watching are now so insane they make Buffy look like a fucking documentary, and I’m more than just mildly irked that coincidentally with my own waning sex drive (well, waning is a bit of an understatement, the flame isn’t out but the wick is burned right down and the flame is guttering) we are entering an era when fucking 9 year olds will have had at least four threesomes and one gang bang under their belts, though I can’t really complain.
It’s better than having the IQ of a bonobo monkey on acid, which just about sums up everything else out there.
Thank fuck I have my toys and my intellectual pursuits.