As far as most ‘normal’ people are concerned it is incredibly weird to not have a youtube account, and just as weird to be doing it in the browser instead of using an app.
So for those people you’ve already demonstrated huge “weirdo” red flags by not being like everyone else.
Right. uBlock is perhaps becoming more common, but people who run sponsor block are already moving way out of the category of ‘average user’
When you’re a nerd yourself, and your friends are nerds, and you move in nerdy circles like most of us here on Lemmy it’s pretty easy to get a distorted idea of what the actual average user looks like, as opposed to the average within your group.
Just tell them you don’t have a YouTube account, so you don’t have personalised recommendations.
That’s exactly the point they are making.
As far as most ‘normal’ people are concerned it is incredibly weird to not have a youtube account, and just as weird to be doing it in the browser instead of using an app.
So for those people you’ve already demonstrated huge “weirdo” red flags by not being like everyone else.
At that point you have to lean in and talk about peertube or sponsor block or whatever, and just hope they’re into it.
None of that is as unusual as you think, both not having the app or an account.
i’m pretty sure most people don’t have a youtube account lmao, probably have the app though.
I can’t run videos in the background or use ublock or sponsor block in the app. The app is super ass. So I guess I proved your point there.
Right. uBlock is perhaps becoming more common, but people who run sponsor block are already moving way out of the category of ‘average user’
When you’re a nerd yourself, and your friends are nerds, and you move in nerdy circles like most of us here on Lemmy it’s pretty easy to get a distorted idea of what the actual average user looks like, as opposed to the average within your group.
Yeah I guess that’s true.
This seems pretty unlikely. She’s probably checking to see if OP is a Tater Tot, or whatever flavor of right wing asshole.
Most normal people wouldn’t care at all that someone doesn’t have a YouTube account.