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Ad Blockers Can't Watch This - WAN Show November 3, 2023

The WAN Show

Linus Tech Tips

News Commentary, Tech News, News

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2023

⏱️ 116 minutes

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Summary

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Timestamps (Courtesy of NoKi1119) Note: Timing may be off due to sponsor change:

0:00 Chapters

1:11 Intro

1:36 Topic #1 - YouTube's anti-ad block campaign is successful

4:12 "We're disabling ad blocking to make Chrome safer," article on Hells Angels

7:50 Linus requests books for mic stands

8:16 Linus on the forums's ad block thread, recalling "ad block is piracy"

13:58 Looking into Linus's mic issue

15:12 Topic #2 - White House's executive order addressed towards AI

15:18 Austin Evans was there, summarizing the executive order

17:23 Should AI be government regulated? ft. Linus brought a Super Chexx

19:22 Linus's mic, discussing games to play on the Mac & PC, "profiling"

22:23 Merch Messages #1

23:38 Thoughts on using phones with parental controls? ft. Linus's mic falls

26:04 Dan's mic emulates 2010's YTPs so perfectly that chat cries

26:42 Whatever happened to the UV hoodie Linus tested on Hawaii?

27:50 Dan's mic, ever surprised someone was a fan? ft. Headphone dent

35:32 Got half a dozen of LTT stealth hats, sad they're out of stock

36:33 Linus warns about not covering as many merch messages due to LAN

36:44 LTTStore's new Breadsaurus t-shirt

37:50 LTTStore's stealth sweatpants pro, SLS newsletter & magnetic cable

41:17 Topic #3 - Embark Studios' The Finals' announcers were AI powered

42:18 Luke on the gameplay, objective-oriented, good support

45:38 Linus on the trailer V.S. gameplay AI announcer

48:34 Luke on bypassing the name filter, Linus on voice acting & AI

50:52 Luke on the F2P system & cosmetics, will he go back to it?

51:32 Luke's experience with Final Fantasy VI, commends Linus

56:30 Linus plays Titanfall 2's campaign, discussing Call of Duty

1:05:26 Luke wants to Play BG3 with Emma, Luke's funny party & results

1:08:20 Sponsors

1:12:58 Topic #4 - EU bans Meta tracking user behavior for targeted ads

1:17:31 Topic #5 - Microsoft to ban "unauthorized" Xbox accessories

1:18:46 Linus on Xbox's "American Girl & Xbox gaming set"

1:20:28 Nick comes on stream, hints the "floor stuff"

1:21:53 Topic #6 - Underground miner's extreme stress test on the LTT backpack

1:23:54 Steven suggests sending over backpacks to study new changes

1:24:26 Topic #7 - Apple announces M3 & Mac lineup

1:28:38 Topic #8 - Rossmann receives 3 community strikes due to FUTO’s GrayJay

1:34:18 Topic #9 - 23AndMe is to provide GSK consumer DNA data for money

1:35:46 Topic #10 - DwarfHeim to shut down due to the dissolution of the dev team

1:38:30 Merch Messages #2 ft. WAN Show After Dark, Linus does it

1:38:58 How are Luke's birds doing? ft. LG Wing mini update

1:41:55 Given ADHD, does Linus do his best thinking when driving or exercising?

1:42:40 What can Linus do without Yvonne's approval?

1:44:18 Are the dad hats V2 going to be in stock by Christmas?

1:44:34 Luke's thought on requiring software engineers to be licensed ft. LG Wing scrolling, bread

1:46:44 Any new products that you can spoon that might be out for time for holiday gifts?

1:47:17 Ever considered a new WAN Show intro?

1:47:34 Ever heard of Beyond All Reason, or BAR?

1:50:04 Do either of you know what happened to Jack from NCIX?

1:52:02 Would PCs today be better if OS2 & Windows 31 won V.S. MsDOS?

1:52:18 Are sponsors aware of the lack of progress bars on the videos?

1:53:18 New TV update?

1:53:34 What are you going to be playing during the LAN?

1:53:58 How many people will you get to buy ANNO 1800?

1:54:46 When the LAN center opens, will there be a rent-your-PC program?

1:55:14 How can I market my tech skills when some see it as optional?

1:55:58 Did Luke ever dive at Bonaire?

1:56:04 Electric motorcycles ft. EV cars can emulate the feel of a manual

1:58:16 Outro

Transcript

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0:00.0

What's up everyone? It's gamer o'clock and welcome to the wands show that's right we've got a big show for you guys today which is to say we actually have the shortest show that we can possibly do because there is a lamb party behind us that is filling up my entire house. We have 80 RSVP for this thing and I can't wait to join the action but there is a lot that we have to talk to you guys about first.

0:23.6

Like, for example, the fact that YouTube's ad block

0:27.2

Crusade is working?

0:31.4

Oh, I am very surprised to hear that.

0:34.9

I was not expecting their ad block crusade to do anything useful or helpful.

0:40.9

In other news, Microsoft has banned unauthorized controllers on the Xbox.

0:47.0

I this is another move that I didn't really expect what else do we got going on

0:51.0

23 and me makes cash selling user data just in case you weren't sure before, you'll be sure now.

0:58.7

Also, the finals, they used a lot of AI voice acting and people have opinions about that.

1:05.2

Oh, people have a ton of opinions about that.

1:07.6

Yeah. I am playing around with my levels guys.

1:10.0

Don't worry. I'm going to try and get this right for you.

1:12.0

Let's go ahead and roll that intro.

1:13.2

Dan, you got this.

1:14.2

Let's hit it.

1:18.2

Oh, boy.

1:18.8

Do you want to tell us if it's working? Okay. Why don't we jump right into our headline topic here, which is YouTube's campaign against ad block?

1:48.0

YouTube confirmed that it's ad block blocking small experiment that began in May has gone global and so far seems to be successful.

1:59.4

Adblock developers reported spikes in uninstilations with hundreds of thousands of

2:05.2

users apparently removing extensions in October. Wow.

2:09.4

According to stats from ad blocking company ghostry, 90% of recent users who gave a reason for

2:16.0

uninstalling the ad blocker cited YouTube's recent policy change.

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