642: A Rebuilding Year

Are you telling me I watch ten minutes of YouTube videos for nothing? I mean, it's good to learn about that stuff anyway, but, you know Was it full of ads? Oh my god. I I've got to get shouldn't be seeing the Oh my god. I've got to start paying for YouTube. It's gotten so bad once you out. I I know. I just I haven't gotten around to it. Yeah. You haven't gotten around to it for, like, seven years or however old your kids are. But I I didn't want to pay for it until they had the slightly cheaper plan. You should find out how many ads your kids know from YouTube. I got I think we talked about this in the show when I did it. I got the family one that I had to use an emulator to run Android to get because they didn't offer it on the web or to Mac or iOS users, so literally only available to people through Android phones. So I read that that Bluetacks or whatever emulator where I ran Android to sign up for the family thing. Gracious. That's bad. Anyways, I I need to do it because all all I'm trying to say is it is so bad out there. I feel like I and I obviously, I was a YouTuber for, like, ten minutes several years ago, and I don't recall one way or the other what what amount of control, the people who make the video have or don't have about, you know, how many ads there are, when they're placed, etcetera. I thought there was at least a modicum of control, but holy fart nuggets, there are so many ads on YouTube right now. It is unbelievable. It is well since crossed the Rubicon from, okay. You know, I'm gonna watch an ad or two because I'm getting something for free, not unlike this very program, to, oh my gosh, can I go fifteen seconds without getting interrupted by an ad? And, obviously, I'm being a bit hyperbolic, but it's bad. It's real bad. That's the nature of things of ads. Like, ads beget more ads. It's like, once you have it's like like mice. Like, once you have two ads, there will become an infinite number of ads over time. Not sure that's how ads reproduce, but we get the analogy. So let's do some follow-up. Apple was told earlier today, just moments before we started recording, to go outside and play hide and go screw themselves. Because, reading from The Verge, an appeals court has now denied Apple's emergency request emergency request to block the order. This is the order that says that they, should that they have to allow link outs and, you know, get rid of the anti steering stuff. Coming back to the verge, the court has said it it was not persuaded that blocking the order was appropriate after weighing Apple's chances to succeed on appeal, …