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>>331341

Additional:

https://hooktube.com/

Abuses embed tech to allow you to watch a youtube video without adverts, giving the original video any views, and works-around regional blocking.

Great to give to normalfags AND for us to use.

>>>/tech/777548

https://archive.is/TMqKI

Tech thread and it's archive as of 8th November 2017. We are working with them since it is a common enemy.

>>329022

Internet Censorship Database thread. Pleanty of stories on Google & Youtube fucking things up. Feel free to repost stuff, just bare in mind duplicate file detection probably means it won't work, so link to the post instead.

As a footnote, Google pulled strings to avoid a thinktank branding them a monopoly or some anti-trust thing. They are clearly afraid of that claim, since the tank went down 24 hours after making that claim publicly. If you can nail them on that- do so.

>>331341

Additional Additional:

Ad Nauseum is proposed as the best way to fuck with Google right now. It's an Ad Blocker of sorts, that sends false clicks to all ads. In other words, the company wonders why so many people are going to their website- and not buying shit.

Further, it screws their analytical data on you. Rather than being someone that consumes gaming content, likes these videos and music etc. You like everything. That doesn't fly with advertisers (and there has already been a case of a company suing Google over bots clicking ads and giving an inflated sense of what's going on).

WE HAVE A WAY TO DISNOD GOOGLE

> Find advertisers on Youtube.

> Send the embedded video, the BBC/Times article, or this article to a specific advertiser a'la weekly goals:

https://archive.is/yIgSs (archiving the times article does not give you the whole article. Not an issue if you send the original URL to advertisers- as you should).

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=uLYwoJtxi6k

https://archive.is/iApWS

That's it. That is literally it.

Either Youtube have to go comb through their database and get rid of those videos (which they won't since it gets them ad revenue and they can't even pull it off if they wanted), or Youtube lose all their biggest adverts.

It is so simple, it's like the early days of GamerGate.

So find out who still advertises on Youtube

Fuck it- maybe send it to all the big brands anyway. Odds are some of them must.

Reposting from the usual place.

>For the anon that wanted to build a list of who and what is still advertising on youtube loading and popup ads. still to be checked and verified by others:

>Mcdonalds

>Glen Livet (alcohol)

>the Canadian Government

>Nescafe (Nestle)

>Some random bullshit "This company teaches you how to make big dollars online" type ad

>A video ad for that "The Room" movie with James Franco as Tommy Weisseu

>A lip gloss ad for some company called glossier

>KFC

>>331413

Thank you!!

Youtube are now claiming to fix the problem, but there's no reason not to pour gas on the fire.

More voices yelling at them will make them over-react or act to quickly.

We now need:

- Contact info for each company.

- Have weekly email goals.

- DO IT.

The movie is called "The Disaster Artist".

If you're out of practice, PUBG removed a (nonexistant) camel toe from their game models. Email them and complain as it'll result in overreach from future complaints.

>Search engine

What about DuckDuckGo.com or ixquick.com?

They don't track their users.

>>331430

Personally, I use StartPage, which works well too

Message from an internet friend who does law:

> honestly the best way to hit them is to hit them where the copyright law hurts

> you start censoring stuff and doing takedowns?

> okay, that means everything you left up is something you chose to leave up

that means you're responsible for it

> no more DMCA Safe Harbor for you

> done

Of course, DisNod is our bread and butter. If anyone can build a plan from this- go for it.

>>331440

> basically, yes, that is what i'm proposing. Make DMCA Safe Harbor and CDA 230 contingent on hosting user-generated-content without any censorship.

>>331413

Comments from main threads:

> That list of youtube advertisers in that thread is a list I made from clicking redlettermedia videos for like 5 minutes. We should really compile a much more comprehensive list than that. Also in emailing those advertisers what do we tell them to get them to pull out?

> Akkofag, do you remember what videos you were watching that had the more egregious advertisments on them? I think its important to also know what advertisments play on what videos for reference sake

> OPs aren't as thorough now, and yeah we need advertisers. A lot more. And if you can combine it with "problematic" videos- even better.

> Even if it's just those algorithm generated videos (SPIDERMAN AND ELSA USE FIDGET SPINNER VERY FUNNY) are bad since it's a low quality video next to their brand. Youtube also claims they're trying to get rid of pornagraphic videos- I'm sure you'll find something. Just don't send anything illegal dumb-ass, it's a confession you watched it.

> Low quality and controversial are what you want. Whether you send stuff that's actually controversial or you include what the left is outraged by nowadays is your choice- but the latter may shoot us in the foot by further reinforcing what they want.

> Tailor what you send based on the company. If the companies been on record as being left leaning- show them their ads on a channel that condemns the left or praises the right/Trump. On the other hand, if the channel is proudly right wing, show them their video on the latest rant by some tumblrite. Finally; think outside the box! A food commercial on a video about starvation in poor nations is probably gonna put people off the brand. A ad on going on safari in Africa won't look good on a video about riots in Africa. Most of the political topics have been de-monetized, but I'm sure some of the left leaning political channels have said dumb shit that no brand would want to be with.

> You don't have to be a fan of the video you're telling the advertiser about. Just say you saw it via a friend or colleague. However, you are a fan of their brand. Why would you write to them if you're not? Say how you like their product/service, and are concerned how this advert would look next to this video.

> How to write politely: http://library.bcu.ac.uk/learner/writingguides/1.06.htm

> Remember the golden rules: Emails Work- but quietly.

> No one wants to admit they're fixing a mistake if they can help it- since it's a confession of making that mistake in the first place. No one is going to say they pulled out, so keep your peepers peeled.

> And no one complains nowadays (hence why SJW made such great strides- we were silent and stopped buying/switched brands, they weren't and badgered until the company did what they wanted). So companies often feel if a person took time to complain, X others feel the same way and may have switched brands. The bigger the company, the greater that paranoia and fear.

> Well when we were targeting gawker and other slimy publication's advertisers it was easy since all you had to do was point out the shady shit they did. I wasn't sure what to do to make advertisers pull out of youtube as a whoel

> You're right that you can't get them to abandon youtube. But you can make it harder to use the service.

< Advertiser asks Google to make more exceptions to where their adverts appear.

< Google over does it by making it appear on stuff they think is problematic, not just the advertiser.

< The advert is seen less, and the advertiser is less keen to use Google as they don't get as much money.

> If the advertiser keeps getting complaints, then they get pissed Google keeps fucking up- putting their brand on "bad" videos.

> Eventually, the videos only end up on hard-left leaning content (since Google thinks it's safe and appropriate). People can complain about it being on white genocide videos and the like, and the advertiser complains again. The only other content left is neutral or right-leaning channels that try to remain a-political that just have fun, entertain, or inform… And Google hates that. They don't want the biggest channels on the website to be people not pushing their agenda. Not to mention most of them have been demonetized thanks to their earlier efforts.

> Do Google "re-monetize" those channels so advertisers have something to work on, or do they sheepishly apologize to the advertiser and struggle to find where to put their ad.

> At least that's one theory. No matter how it goes, the more pressure we apply to Google the better. Pressure makes fuck-ups and hasty decisions.

/r/degoogle is a great subreddit related to this thread.

>>331341

> - Palemoon is a firefox fork that has slowly been developing.

>- Everyone knows what fucking firefox is, although it has become bloated.

Mozilla is pozzed. Firefox is not only bloating, it's Rust'ing.

Anyway, another good addon is RefControl. Which lets you, um, control how referrers are handled - default and per site.

#YoutubePurge is in full swing.

Google, Twitter and Facebook are all going to purge hard in the run up to the mid-term election so "bad-think" can't stop their propaganda.

>>>/gamergatehq/331341

>>>/gamergatehq/329022

>>>/tech/77754

- Spread their dirty laundry. The lawsuits, the propaganda, the bias, and the hypocrisy.

- Encourage people to use other brands like Vimeo and Bitchute, or work-arounds like Hooktube. This also includes Gmail and Google Chrome.

- Encourage people to use Ad Nauseum to screw with their ads, and eat away at their war-chest.

The current Youtube shilling hashtag is #YoutubeTaughtMe, so fill it with shit they don't want you to know. Also include $GOOG and $GOOGL- as it then lets investors in Google know the peasants are revolting.

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=BEPmdWtc0E8

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=5m499vpiGdw

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=5tYXw7ZRa90

Google is more evil than you can imagine.

https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/17/17344250/google-x-selfish-ledger-video-data-privacy (Attempts to archive this article via archive.is and archive.today have failed: http://www.freezepage.com/1526683911XGGNEPMSOT)

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=EoBAIQjWoUQ

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=UqByX959pxg

https://www.hooktube.com/watch?v=QDVVo14A_fo (the leaked video itself)

> The video was made in late 2016 by Nick Foster, the head of design at X (formerly Google X) and a co-founder of the Near Future Laboratory. The video, shared internally within Google, imagines a future of total data collection, where Google helps nudge users into alignment with their goals, custom-prints personalized devices to collect more data, and even guides the behavior of entire populations to solve global problems like poverty and disease.

> When reached for comment on the video, an X spokesperson provided the following statement to The Verge:

< “We understand if this is disturbing – it is designed to be. This is a thought-experiment by the Design team from years ago that uses a technique known as ‘speculative design’ to explore uncomfortable ideas and concepts in order to provoke discussion and debate. It’s not related to any current or future products.”

> Titled The Selfish Ledger, the 9-minute film starts off with a history of Lamarckian epigenetics, which are broadly concerned with the passing on of traits acquired during an organism’s lifetime. Narrating the video, Foster acknowledges that the theory may have been discredited when it comes to genetics but says it provides a useful metaphor for user data. (The title is an homage to Richard Dawkins’ 1976 book The Selfish Gene.) The way we use our phones creates “a constantly evolving representation of who we are,” which Foster terms a “ledger,” positing that these data profiles could be built up, used to modify behaviors, and transferred from one user to another:

< “User-centered design principles have dominated the world of computing for many decades, but what if we looked at things a little differently? What if the ledger could be given a volition or purpose rather than simply acting as a historical reference? What if we focused on creating a richer ledger by introducing more sources of information? What if we thought of ourselves not as the owners of this information, but as custodians, transient carriers, or caretakers?”

[…]

> The so-called ledger of our device use — the data on our “actions, decisions, preferences, movement, and relationships” — is something that could conceivably be passed on to other users much as genetic information is passed on through the generations, Foster says.

> Building on the ledger idea, the middle section of the video presents a conceptual Resolutions by Google system, in which Google prompts users to select a life goal and then guides them toward it in every interaction they have with their phone. The examples, which would “reflect Google’s values as an organization,” include urging you to try a more environmentally friendly option when hailing an Uber or directing you to buy locally grown produce from Safeway.

> Of course, the concept is premised on Google having access to a huge amount of user data and decisions. Privacy concerns or potential negative externalities are never mentioned in the video. The ledger’s demand for ever more data might be the most unnerving aspect of the presentation.

> Foster envisions a future where “the notion of a goal-driven ledger becomes more palatable” and “suggestions may be converted not by the user but by the ledger itself.” This is where the Black Mirror undertones come to the fore, with the ledger actively seeking to fill gaps in its knowledge and even selecting data-harvesting products to buy that it thinks may appeal to the user. The example given in the video is a bathroom scale because the ledger doesn’t yet know how much its user weighs. The video then takes a further turn toward anxiety-inducing sci-fi, imagining that the ledger may become so astute as to propose and 3D-print its own designs. Welcome home, Dave, I built you a scale.