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  • Fester@lemm.eetoApple@lemmy.world•What's the best way to watch youtube without adds on ios? (without premium).English
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    3 days ago

    I use DuckDuckGo for search, and it gives you the option to watch full YT videos without actually going to YouTube. I only watch videos that I’ve searched for - not ones that YT suggests to me, so this has been sufficient. Watching this way does not have ads (so far) but it does warn that YT can still use trackers.

    Other’s advice (plugins etc.) are probably better overall, but this is the simplest option for me. I haven’t felt the need to find a more robust solution, but that’s only because of how I use YouTube.

    Edit - when you click a DDG search result that is YT, this pops up:

  • Fester@lemm.eetoPatient Gamers@sh.itjust.works•Interesting to see how dead the MMORPG genre has become. Are there still players around?English
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    1 month ago

    Do you know if people still play galactic starfighter (GSF) in SWTOR? Or if it’s gotten any updates? It became my favorite thing to do in game, but it wasn’t very popular, and last time I tried I sat in queue for a while before giving up. (I liked Squadrons but that also tapered off quickly.)

    The rest of the game is great too. I treat it like FFXIV - play every now and then to catch up on the story, though it’s been a while since I’ve played SWTOR. I don’t know if I agree the story content is better than FFXIV (after ARR at least - especially Shadowbringers and Endwalker), but I can see why some people would like it more. It’s consistently good from start to finish. Anyone who likes Star Wars and gaming is missing out on a huge variety of stories and fun if they don’t play it.

    Anyway, might need to give it a go again.

  • Fester@lemm.eeto196@lemmy.blahaj.zone•Finally ruled enoughEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I grew up in a very religious conservative home. My parents love LOTR, Narnia, Marvel, Star Wars, etc.

    But we weren’t allowed to read Harry Potter. The reason given was that “fictional magic is usually ok, but HP is teaching you that anyone can go to a magic school and learn witchcraft.”

    Now, you have to understand that they believed in real-life witchcraft. Real people apparently draw pentagrams, contact demons, and get effective results. They had cautionary tales about Ouija boards gone wrong, and that sort of thing.

    But imagine my surprise when I grew up and married someone who is a huge HP fan, and I finally watched all the movies and listened to the audiobooks. And guess what? It’s literally the fucking opposite of “anyone can learn witchcraft.” It’s literally about people who are born with or without the ability do magic and the fascist villain wants to torture, enslave, and kill non-magic people.

    So where did my parents get their entirely wrong idea? From some Satanic Panic fearmongering fundamentalist/evangelical leader. Maybe it was the same one who told them that “any music with drums is basically pornography.”

    So nah, I don’t think it’s about women authors - that’s probably another issue. It’s whether the works are popular enough and have enough buzz words that some religious leader is able to latch onto it and scare people into being outraged by it, banking on the assumption that they won’t actually read it.

    In fact, that’s a running theme - assume people won’t think for themselves or learn any facts about anything they’re told be outraged about.

  • Fester@lemm.eetoStar Wars Memes@lemmy.world•New gritty show just droppedEnglish
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    2 months ago

    “They roasted them alive. Not just the men, but the women and children too. Every last one of them. And then they ate them. Those fucking bears ate the whole crew. And then they used their skulls as drums for their fucked up dance music. We never should’ve blown up the Death Star. Now we need to take them out the old way. One at a time.”