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The oligarchs running these companies have suffered a psychotic break. What the cause exactly is I don’t know, but the game theyre playing is a lot less about profits now. They care about control and power over people.

I theorize it has to do with desperation over what they see as an inevitable collapse of the United States and they are hedging their bets on holding onto the reigns of power for as long as possible until they can fuck off to their respective bunkers while the rest of humanity eats itself.

Then, when things settle they can peak their heads out of their hidie holes and start their new Utopian civilization or whatever.

Whatever’s going on, profits are not the focus right now. They are grasping at ways to control the masses…and failing pretty miserably I might add…though something tells me that scarcely matters to them.

yt-dlp edits the video once its downloaded on your device. So when the sponsor mention comes up, it just cuts to the next piece of content that comes after the sponsor mention. It does download the entire video, but then it uses ffmpeg (I think) to edit the sponsor mentions out.

Lol. Use Libredirect extension to redirect all YouTube URLs in your browser to an invidious instance, don’t even worry if video doesn’t load, copy url, yt-dlp said url, make sure to add sponsor block flags to yt-dlp command. Don’t even need ublock. mpv your ad free sponsor less video, hold onto it forever if you want.

Keep making GrapheneOS compatible phones Google.

Meh. Hard pass. I don’t read any article site that requires JS to be turned on.

That’s a feature Microsoft. Start removing more crap and you might have an actual OS and not just a complicated slow overpriced billboard.