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The ultimate rickroll (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 5 months ago (1 children)

No the ultimate is that beautiful bastard who rickrolled the man himself.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Wait you mean someone out there rickrolled rick Astley

[–] [email protected] 72 points 5 months ago (4 children)

https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/haucpf/ive_found_a_few_funny_memories_during_lockdown/fv505w1/?context=3

[–] [email protected] 33 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I give TheMalleableDuck my upper most respect

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There was also a time on Reddit where somebody asked Rick Astley if he would ever give him up and Rick Astley just responded go fuck yourself

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

lmao

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Huh, looks like the user doesn't exist on Reddit anymore

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Even more respect. Maybe they’re here on Lemmy somewhere

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Commenter was wrong, user still exists.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Libreddit link:

https://libreddit.tux.pizza/r/pics/comments/haucpf/ive_found_a_few_funny_memories_during_lockdown/fv505w1/?context=3&rdt=48420

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

From all I can tell, Rick Astley seems like a really cool guy with a great sense of humor.

Also (I swear on my late father's grave this is not a Rickroll), he does an absolutely amazing cover of Uptown Funk, which I like more than the original.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUEdsXgBrDA

Feel free to search for "Rick Astley Uptown Funk" on your own if you don't believe me though. It's worth it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yo that was pretty awesome...his voice is great

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I regularly go back and listen to it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

Damnit, I was hoping to be rickrolled.

He sings so damn clearly, I don’t know why but I’m currently enamored with how every single word he is singing is so pronounced and pleasant sounding, it’s like listening to the song in HD.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 5 months ago

Company PR wage slaves are forced to give companies personality online to make them appear relatable and hip with the kids

Don't fall for that bullshit

[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago (2 children)

None, because seeing a four minute unskippable ad halfway through a two minute video would make me go apoplectic.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (2 children)

YouTube has ads?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Haven't you been following the news? It will soon.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Yeah, on your phone

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

There are multiple ways to remove that: youtube revanced, adblocker(i think), new pipe etc

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Don't forget Grayjay.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

And soon probably everywhere unless you pay, because YouTube is testing server side ad injection, so they’d be part of the main video stream.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

you can still set your vpn to some country where they don't advertise

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Forever, this isn't some miraculous new magical advertising method, it'll be blocked before it is even pushed out to everyone

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Not from the US but I'm pretty sure the ftc requires ads be disclosed and if the company isn't doing it you have to report it to the ftc for some stupid reason if I recall correctly

So iirc that might be a legal loophole which allows adblockers to work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

They can definitely inject the ad into the video stream on the server side and still correctly classify it as ad. Some other platforms already do that. From my own experience, many podcasts monetize like that. The ads get injected by their distributors. Leads to German ads before English speaking podcasts, if you stream them from Germany. However, their ads are skippable. Wouldn’t be surprised if YouTube somehow made that impossible, too.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I can't see how they will not be able to properly disclose the ad, they will just do that without breaking a videostream, and in a most machine unfriendly way they can come up with. It's going to be like captcha but saying "this is an ad"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

It's been about a year since I had an ad on mobile. It takes about a minute to set it up so you don't see them.

I was being a smart ass, but it was a lead in to let you know you have the option to be ad free.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Install ReVanced now and enjoy YouTube without ads, sponsor segments, and clickbait on your phone while you still can.

https://revanced.app

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I haven't seen a YouTube ad on my phone since about 2021, thanks to the magic of Vanced and later ReVanced. Sounds like a skill issue on your end ngl

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What the hell makes you think YouTube employees have to watch the ads themselves?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Some definitely have, as they test and implement it. But the point was that the user stopped watching YT because of ads, not that YT will not

[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It would be funny if he sent a invidious link

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

yewtu.be to be as inconspicuous as possible

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (2 children)

It would be great to link them to a youtube videos with just ads. Cause you know you go in youtube to watch ads not content

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

The YouTube employees probably don't have ads right?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

It's also ironic that on a rare occasion of happening upon an interesting ad that I want to rewatch, there's no fuckıng way to do it, I can't even rewind it or get a link to it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

sus