With the ban going into effect, I thought it might be helpful to allow people to share their experiences about the Australian teen social media ban and how it has affected them.

Note: For the Aussie Zone lemmy requirements, see here. Please use that thread for an Aussie Zone specific discussions or questions.

Good luck, everyone!

  • Zagorath@aussie.zoneEnglish
    6·
    1 day ago

    or constantly updating the adblockers in an arms race

    Tbh once they started cracking down on adblockers I switched to uBlock Origin and haven’t had any problems since. Which is funny, because I previously used Adblock Plus specifically because I liked their “acceptable ads standard”, where they would let through ads that are designed unobtrusively. UBO doesn’t support this. So now instead of less terrible ads getting through, YouTube’s actions have caused me to get rid of all ads, entirely. Way to shoot yourselves in the foot there, guys.

    Will not be able to watch friend’s channel

    I have never had a TikTok account. Occasionally people send links, and those work just fine in the web browser on a computer. On mobile they try to force you to download the app though.

    I also didn’t get it together in time to back up my comments in order to delete my account

    I believe data dumps of Reddit are available from third parties which would help you with this, if you want.

    • melbaboutown@aussie.zoneEnglish
      2·
      1 day ago

      I just lazily switched to Brave because phone and it stopped the ads.

      I mostly wanted to back up a copy of my comments for myself and then wipe them off Reddit, but the process of installing the GitHub tool to grab my posts didn’t quite work and I was very tired.