I will never give you money for Youtube Premium. The reason is simple: Giving you money only prevents me from seeing ads, it doesn’t prevent you from selling my data. I shouldn’t have to pay you to not sell my data. Since I can’t pay you to not sell my data and I can’t do anything except protect myself with ad blockers, that’s exactly what I’m going to do. If you make it impossible to watch videos with an ad blocker, I’m just going to switch to a different service; exactly like everyone else will. So, fuck you Google and Youtube; I will never give you money for an “ad free” experience.

It’s funny to me that Google has decided Youtube is best served by removing the dislike button. Google doesn’t seem to realize they always had access to a better option, a more future-proof one. Google should actually have pulled what Facebook tried to, enforcing a “no pseudonym” rule aside from on a case by case basis. It would’ve been easier to implement that than basically ruin Youtube as a service, which was the road they actually took.

Alright, of all the people to take the lemons of COVID-19 quarantine and make lemonade, this unemployed wine sommelier absolutely wins the internet. His sophisticated palate interpreting utter gutter booze makes for some of the best comedy you can get for free.

Holy fucking shit. I was literally just made aware of an insane gaggle of assholes behind the YouTube account 8 Passengers. Before I start ranting, watch this absolute TRASH play out.

The video is obvious crap. Their production quality is trash and yet it also looks like a lot of effort put into trash. So that aside, this psychotic bitch rolls off with this unwarranted smile and peppy demeanor about “Kevin” testing positive for COVID. So they don’t quarantine him, or all the members of the family, or anything rational. This pasty white bitch SUGGESTS THEY ALL DRINK FROM ONE CUP. Bitch, listen- You are an abusive piece of trash for that even crossing your mind. I’m sitting at home suffering right now as I write this, and I can verifiably say without a doubt that you’re an unredeemable garbage human being.

When I first began using Jekyll, I noticed that throwing in a Youtube embedded video made it go apeshit. I Googled for a bit to discover that Maruku wasn’t happy with HTML, and was taking any and all HTML and interpreting it to XHTML. Youtube doesn’t provide “Embed” data in XHTML format. Here is an example of a typical Youtube embed:

<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/dQw4w9WgXcQ" 
        frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>

That’s taken verbatim from Youtube. There are two problems here. First, XHTML doesn’t like lone attributes. The allowfullscreen attribute has to be changed to allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" to be usable. If you even use it. I’ve heard reports of people embedding videos without it at all. Second, Jekyll devs openly admit Jekyll swallows empty end tags. Thankfully, their admission gleans a helpful hint in fixing it. Simply insert a space between <iframe> and </iframe>. The end result is as such: