I've been giving this some thought and the only line I can see is banning the calls for violence against a individual or protected group.
I think anything more or less restrictive causes trouble.
Example points:
Cannot discuss declaring war (voilence) on another country.
Can never lie or can not cause harm = can not tell a joke.
Cannot ban misinformation = who decides? In the 1960 being gay was illegal, should the gay right movement have been banned as misinformation?
Societies grow by challenging norms.
I think our weird society can be fixed by teaching critical thinking in schools and introspection. However, philosophers have been saying similar things for at least 2000 years and it hasn't caught on yet.
Happy to discuss the above as I'd like to work the angles for a better line, if we think there is one.
I'm the same. It is quite jaring to see an add now. They seems very obnoxious.
The only issue in have is ads in podcasts. This isn't a huge deal as the provider usually determine add based on IP so i get a 30 second ad in a language I can't understand.
Any solutions to this?
P.S. before I switched from YouTube I disabled all data collection and personalisation a few notable ads I used to receive:
Ads for balls soap (this ad was repugnant)
Ads for Muslim speed dating, with male chaperone (I'm not a Muslim)
A 1hour Chinese party political conference, in Chinese (I don't speak Chinese)
^ Ive got the last one saved out of curiosity.
I remember a time when YouTube was not owned by google and was ad free.
The internet was better before all of this tracking.
Thanks for the reply. I'm fairy average Joe. I'll mainly use this machine for downloading files and general browsing. I don't have any personal files or accounts on that device.
I'm mainly concerned with neglecting to enable (or disabling) something critical or accidentally downloading something malicious (although this hasn't happened for many many years).
Minimal jank